Freeware Game Pick: Flickerstrings (Arvi Teikari)
Flickerstrings is a new experimental work created by the developer of FIG and Jump on Mushrooms: The Game. In it, players are required to draw an object to use as a playable character, starting from the brown box and ending when the maximum line length is reached. Once drawn, the shape can be moved around using the cursor keys. This shape turns into an immovable platform when the player attempts to draw another shape from the brown box.
The length of each string is limited, but you can cancel any mistakes by right clicking before the shape is drawn. You can also press the space key to restart a level at any time.
There are a total of twelve stages included in this version.
Comments
Fun but a bit short, even if you go for par. I like the mechanism and how you can abuse it but I think it needs some more levels that make you think and a constant grow of difficulty. Some later levels felt more like "connect the dots" than "draw an even smarter shapes".
Posted by: tR | March 31, 2009 11:58 PM
Pretty cool ideia, managed to get par on most of the levels, also found a bug, if you click with your mouse in the square then go making the line inside of a wall, wen you take of your mouse from inside the wall, if there is a clear patch between your line and your mouse, you gonna end up with a really big line.
Posted by: jack | April 1, 2009 12:32 AM
Thanks for telling the bug! I'll fix it.
Yeah, the game is quite short, more like a demonstration of the engine.
Posted by: Hempuli | April 1, 2009 1:50 PM