Browser Game Pick: Prose and Motion (DeeperBeige)
Prose and Motion is a physics-based word game. Yes, you did read that right. Given a bunch of letters, the task is to rearrange them in order to make a word - you do this by grabbing them and putting them in place.
Of course, this being a physics game, it's never that simple. The first few levels ask you to stick the letters next to each other to progress, but very soon you're being asked to build bridges and sit your word across them, or shuffle pieces around to make space available. There is also a 'perfect word' for each level - i.e. a word which can be made using the available letters, and has some relevance to the prose on display.
Grabbing and placing the letters can be a little fiddly, but let's face it - we've been dealing with awkward physics controls for years now, so let's not take it out on Mr. Beige. It's interesting stuff anyway, and well worth a go.
Comments
maaaaaan working with the p's is brutal
Posted by: tard | February 10, 2010 3:19 AM
Innovative and enjoyable.
Really neat idea with clean and polished implementation.
I like it :)
(I just learned to tune the P last)
Posted by: Ntero | February 10, 2010 4:33 AM
Too hard for my poor english vocabulary, but that's a sweet game.
Posted by: Kapser | February 10, 2010 5:20 AM
Physics feel a bit too fiddly and end up just being infuriating more than anything else. The puzzles are less about finding the perfect word than finding the patience to set up the perfect word.
Music is absolutely excellent, though.
Posted by: Hammith | February 10, 2010 9:56 PM
This is wonderful. I am so glad somebody created this.
Now never, ever do it again.
Posted by: moltobenny | February 10, 2010 11:11 PM
It's a cute system, but the "perfect" word often has little or nothing to do with the hint. This is less a puzzler, and more a physical implementation of anagram solving.
Which is... nice, I guess, but not puzzling. Just time consuming.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 19, 2010 5:24 PM