Square pusher: former Spore dev gives bare minimum with iPhone's MinMe
Created as part of last month's Experimental Gameplay Project (that would also spawn Adam Saltsman's Canabalt), Chaim Gingold's MinMe [App Store] adheres strictly to the Project's "bare minimum" theme: the user has to "minimize the board," has a bare minimum of graphics, was made in 1.5 days, and costs the App Store's bare minimum of zero dollars.
The kicker: Gingold (best known as the original prototype developer of what would become Spore's Creature Creator) only had time enough to include a bare minimum 10 levels, and so it ends precisely at the point where it's just getting good.
Consider this an open plea, then, for an expansion of at least another, say, like, 60 levels. Download the game via iTunes here.
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The engaging dichotomy that reoccurs throughout the majority of Squarepusher's work, especially since 1998's Music is Rotted One Note, could be characterised as a futurist, post-rave impulse jostling with a formal training (and frightening talent) in freeform jazz. Though the organic and the electronic have never been mutually exclusive in Tom Jenkinson's world, Just A Souvenir offers perhaps the clearest indication that the party is indeed over. A regress to the Kaoss pad-assaulting excesses of 1997's seminal Hard Normal Daddy is not becoming of a man touted by sports sock-violating Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) as the best player in the world.
The engaging dichotomy that reoccurs throughout the majority of Squarepusher's work, especially since 1998's Music is Rotted One Note, could be characterised as a futurist, post-rave impulse jostling with a formal training (and frightening talent) in freeform jazz. Though the organic and the electronic have never been mutually exclusive in Tom Jenkinson's world, Just A Souvenir offers perhaps the clearest indication that the party is indeed over. A regress to (SEO Company) the Kaoss pad-assaulting excesses of 1997's seminal Hard Normal Daddy is not becoming of a man touted by sports sock-violating Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) as the best player in the world.
It looks like it could be a good little game for iphone, but I was really wondering when the workout games that we've been promised will be coming out for iphone?
This is absolutely fantastic just been playing it again, as a Suduko player it's refreshing to play a game that offers more dimensions in the way of game play and strategy. My dad loves it and plays it all the time, highly recommended !! We work for a Reproduction furniture shop and always playing it in this time of recession when the shops quiet.
This is a great game. Nice to see creativity used in this game. This is very small game with lot of creativity used. Do we have something similar for London ?
I can not stop playing this! It should have a time out device on it to stop me playing it for long periods of timeVirus ProtectionThanks!
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