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By: Extreme Boredom=Cash=Desert Bus For Hope | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Extreme Boredom=Cash=Desert Bus For Hope | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:44:02 +0000

[...] the second year running, we’re late to the party on this one. It’s almost as if human suffering moves us not and we cackle at weakness. Thanks to everyone [...]

By: JakethePirate

JakethePirate — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:30:49 +0000

Fat Zombie:

Yes, it must be done.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:28:15 +0000

Wasn’t the whole smoke and mirrors project made just to prove some point about about the violence:fun ratio in games?

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:35:03 +0000

I say that they should do a Source remake of this.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:10:11 +0000

For a followup project I suggest the ZX Spectrum version of STUN runner

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:41:53 +0000

According to Wiki, it is.

That sounds like a great concept, I must say.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:16:21 +0000

Wait, I think I got a game magazine when I visited the UK as a kid (let’s say ‘awhile ago’) and I swear to God it has a review of that game in it. Is that the Desert Bus where the bus leans to the right slightly, and at the end of driving straight for four days you get 1 point?

By: Carey

Carey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:03:29 +0000

Makes the ol’ PCF Quake-a-Thon look like a doddle.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:58:43 +0000

I stand corrected. Shame I sold the wifes DS last night to a mad german guy who came round after bidding for it on ebay.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:42:44 +0000

What a shame it never saw the light of day.

It pretty much did – there’s plenty of copies floating around the web, and the suitable emulators. The other games work better in theory than in practice, mind.

By: Cryect

Cryect — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:25:34 +0000

Piratepete, btw Nintendo’s recently released DS game Master of Illusion which is the same type of tricks except you actually tell the DS the information as you are actually showing it to your friend through how you interact with it. 12 years later but I would say it would most likely work best in mind with a portable.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:19:40 +0000

Now THATS innovative, and not just the Desert Bus game but the rest of the games on Smoke and Mirrors. User interaction taken to the max to fool your friends. What a shame it never saw the light of day.

So the next time a Dev cites their new game as being ‘innovative’ I will just shout Smoke and Mirros at them :)