I was surfing a games site, reading about some games made by a company that was competing with the one I was with by making an RPG at the same time as we were making ours. Featuring a design of yellow and blue, the site was quick to load, and gave the company's two games good reviews.
One was a rainbowey tetris game for windows which was played on the desktop, the display appearing behind the icons as if it were the desktop picture. Large strings of colorful blocks would fall down the landscape, and you could move them with the arrow keys, left or right. The site had a miniature demo of this, and I played it for a bit.
The other game was something of an RPG, based in the desert. Your character, dressed in black, could walk between the various screens and town. There was another person, named Jack, whom you had to kill as often as you could.
One of the numerous groups of merchants in town, who all dressed completely in black, could help you do this easily, so I tried to talk to them after reading about them on a pedestal that held up images of them. They moved about a bit, but didn't do anything.
A beetle scurried out from under their legs, and I grabbed some tissues and tried to squash it, very fearful and nervous under the merchants' gaze. I finally squashed the head off and watched as giblets crawled between the head and the body, then got a many a tissue and cleaned up the mess.
Posted by Trevor Savage at January 4, 2004 11:54 AM