Author: Taro Omiya
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Strange Free Games: Against The Wall
While I usually focus on released and playable games here, I’d like to highlight this prototype with a lot of promise. Here’s Against the Wall, a first-person platforming-puzzle game about climbing a wall. It’s a surreal and acrophobic experience, strange, perilous, and inviting all the same. The alpha build for Against the Wall can be…
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Weekly Game Music: Endless Sky (Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles)
Remember Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles? Presumably, all the hardcore Final Fantasy fans greatly disliked the inability to level-up in that game. This, despite the extremely addicting multiplayer, the excellent graphics, and most importantly, poetic music. Without further ado, here’s Endless Sky by Kumi Tanioka. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is a story of 4 strong villagers…
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Strange Free Games: Left Arrow Moves Left
Away with the flash games, and back to awesome story-telling. Here’s a student project from RPI, Left Arrow Moves Left. It’s a simple platformer where nearly every element of the game are composed of words, including platforms and walls themselves. It’ll occasionally add new items, such as the teleporting bookmark that you can throw with…
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Weekly Game Music: Credits (The Dog Island)
Every once in a while, I find a well-composed music from the least expected places. Case in point? The Credits music from The Dog Island. It’s composed by a huge team: Junko Ozawa, Etsuo Ishii, Minamo Takahashi, Junichi Nakatsuru, Rio Hamamoto, Yoshihito Yano, Tetsuya Uchida, and Tomomitsu Kaneko. Edit 3/31/13: Apparently the previous video got…
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Strange Free Games: QWOP
Here’s a popular flash game: QWOP. It’s a game about controlling the leg muscles of a track runner on a 100 meter track. The ‘Q’ key rotates the thighs in a clockwise rotation, while ‘W’ rotates it counter-clockwise. Similarly, ‘O’ rotates the calves clockwise; and the ‘P’, counter-clockwise. This deliberately unwieldy controls, and the floppy…
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Weekly Game Music: Super Mario’s Sleigh Ride (Super Mario World)
Happy Holidays, everyone, and Merry Christmas to the respective Christian followers. Here’s a little special remix called Super Mario’s Sleigh Ride. It’s an excellent live music arrangement that mashes together Sleigh Ride with various Super Mario World themes. Can you name all of them? Super Mario World‘s music is originally composed by Kondo Koji; Sleigh…