{"id":583,"date":"2010-08-30T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:57:09","slug":"avoidal-you-might-get-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/avoidal-you-might-get-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOIDAL \/ You MIGHT Get Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AVOIDAL<\/p>\n

So both these games have two things in common. One: uppercase letters. Two: a finely-balanced sense of how to test your hand-eye coordination to breaking point.<\/p>\n

AVOIDAL<\/a> <\/strong>by Hybrid Mind Studios<\/a> <\/strong>is another of those 200-odd Ludum Dare 18 games<\/a>, and clearly there can’t be that many people playing it because I’ve managed to claw my way up to #6 in the high score table. You’re a robot, and you have to destroy mines by triggering nearby rockets and floaty red homing blobs to smash into them.\u00a0Simple as that.<\/p>\n

If I had one <\/em>complaint \u2013 and it’s the nitpicky complaint of someone who’s clearly spent far too long playing the damn thing \u2013 it’s that the mines only take out one blob at a time, when common sense tells you they should obliterate everything in the vicinity. Otherwise, AVOIDAL just feels <\/em>right, gets thrillingly hectic, and gives you the feeling that, attempt by attempt, you’re getting that little bit better. Pretty impressive for a game coded in 48 hours.\u00a0Play AVOIDAL (Flash)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And then there’s <\/span>You MIGHT Get Nervous<\/a> <\/strong>by Lubos Lenco<\/span>, which was\u00a0probably coded in 48 minutes<\/em>. It’s not really a game so much as a primitive test of the ambidextrous skills you’ve built up over years of playing videogames. As blocks swim all over the screen, your right hand’s doing one thing, your left hand is simultaneously doing two <\/em>other things, everything moves faster and faster, and your eyes and brain try to keep track of everything at once before eventually catching fire and exploding.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"You<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Honestly, it’ll put your face into the same involuntary hyper-concentrated grimace you see on people defusing bombs in movies.\u00a0Play You MIGHT Get Nervous (Flash)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So both these games have two things in common. One: uppercase letters. Two: a finely-balanced sense of how to test your hand-eye coordination to breaking point. AVOIDAL by Hybrid Mind Studios is another of those 200-odd Ludum Dare 18 games, and clearly there can’t be that many people playing it because I’ve managed to claw my way up to #6 in the high score table. You’re a robot, and you have to destroy mines by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[142,139,10,140,144,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}