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Title: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: est on 09 Apr 2008, 17:53
http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift

Was linked to this via the OCAU news site.  It's a fairly simple platformer with an interesting gameplay twist.  You use the arrow keys to wander about, the space key to jump, and the shift key to flip the world upside-down.  I'm sure it's not a 100% original concept, but it's executed in a fun way.

The only complaints I have can be summarised thusly:

- too short
- not challenging enough (probably due to being too short and therefore not having time to ramp difficulty up)
- too many Portal references

Still a cool little time-waster in my opinion.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Narr on 09 Apr 2008, 18:19
It was on the shorter side, but as far as Flash web puzzle games go, it's a pretty good one.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Thy Dungeonman on 09 Apr 2008, 18:35
If you liked that, try Shift 2. It is a bit more challenging, because it introduces gravity-shifting arrows. Still just as short, though.

http://armorgames.com/play/964/shift-2
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Ozymandias on 09 Apr 2008, 23:11
I played this a few weeks ago and was sorely disappointed with the Portal references. If you have a good, original-esque concept for a game, why lower yourself to just having the game be a string of references to a better, but played out game?

I wanted to find the creator and shake my head in disappointment at him.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Spluff on 10 Apr 2008, 00:54
Concept almost definitely stolen from squidi.net, but fun anyway.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: est on 10 Apr 2008, 03:12
How so?  I can't see any of his concepts that correlate to this.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: trebach on 16 Apr 2008, 21:52
If you liked that, try Shift 2. It is a bit more challenging, because it introduces gravity-shifting arrows. Still just as short, though.

http://armorgames.com/play/964/shift-2

It still has the references to Portal as well.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Spluff on 17 Apr 2008, 04:18
How so?  I can't see any of his concepts that correlate to this.

http://www.that webcomic guy everyone hates.net/three/entry.php?id=1

It's pretty similar.

Also, goddamn word filter.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: muteKi on 17 Apr 2008, 06:24
See, this is why you gotta use 1337. The filter doesn't recognize Chuck Norr1s.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: est on 17 Apr 2008, 17:21
I already saw that one.  Just like a lot of his ideas it's very vague.  If he spent more time developing the ideas that he has instead of making as many of them as he can then maybe some of his ideas would be more fully fleshed-out and decent.  By his standards I have probably about twenty game ideas in my head right now, I just don't have the artistic skill to represent them properly as he has.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: Spluff on 17 Apr 2008, 22:49
Yeah, but the basic idea is there. I'm not saying it's a particularly fleshed out or even usable in the state he put it up in, just that the idea probably came from there.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: muteKi on 18 Apr 2008, 11:52
I have no idea actually who it is that's behind that word filter.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: est on 19 Apr 2008, 01:38
Probably for the best, really.
Title: Re: Flash timewaster: SHIFT
Post by: muteKi on 19 Apr 2008, 10:12
See, I woulda' guessed it was linked to CAD but I can't see any trace of that on the site.

Ah, found it.