Comments on: Twist And Tumble: All Of Our Friends Are Dead

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:14:17 +0000

I’ve been “sold” ever since I saw the screenshot! Will have a smoke later and try this out, oh yes.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:03:09 +0000

I tried showing Red Dwarf to my wife. I ended up turning it off with embarrassment. I couldn’t understand it; I mean, reading that transcript, it’s patently hilarious. The bit where Lister left money in his account for millions of years, and left a lightbulb on, so he’s the richest human being in the galaxy and the electricity company is the second richest entity – that was fucking hilarious. But you watch the episodes and what you thought were nob jokes are, I dunno, nose jokes. Oh dear.

Also, this here game thing is right excellent, especially the sounds.

By: TauQuebb

TauQuebb — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:24:57 +0000

For some reason, this leeps to mind…

LISTER: Where is everybody, Hol?
HOLLY: They’re dead, Dave.
LISTER: Who is?
HOLLY: Everybody, Dave.
LISTER: What, Captain Hollister?
HOLLY: Everybody’s dead, Dave.
LISTER: What, Todhunter?
HOLLY: Everybody’s dead, Dave.
LISTER: What, Selby?
HOLLY: They’re all dead. Everybody’s dead, Dave.
LISTER: Petersen isn’t, is he?
HOLLY: Everybody is *dead*, Dave.
LISTER: Not Chen?
HOLLY: Gordon Bennett! Yes! Chen, everybody. Everybody’s dead, Dave.
LISTER: Rimmer?
HOLLY: He’s dead, Dave. Everybody’s dead. Everybody is dead, Dave!
LISTER: Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody’s dead?
HOLLY: I wish I’d never let him out in the first place.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:17:48 +0000

Sadly, Qwantz has already nailed the most emo title ever.
“Happy Dog the happy dog in Your whole family is made out of meat.”

Refusing to read the article itself until I’ve played the game.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:12:13 +0000

Played this a while back. It’s a good half hour of fun – the gameplay itself is nothing to write home about, and the gun you have is almost too powerful for its own good (what with you tearing through everything when instinct tells you to avoid and hide), but the atmosphere is fantastic.

The three-colour palette (black, white, red), the amazing sound/music/nightmare noise and the jarring, deliberately discordant pacing of the whole thing make it a fun little romp through a glitchcore hellscape. I’d just like to repeat that the sound is amazing. Turn the volume up, the lights off, and let those tones unsettle you as they’re meant to.

It’s not that there’s anything jump-out-and-shock scary. It’s just that the oppressive, jangling ambience of it all gets under your skin.

I’d love to see this developed into something larger. Not MUCH larger, but higher production values on the coding front (the developer is an artist, and was using a pre-made platformer engine someone created for/in Game Maker), and maybe stretch it out to an hour or two… Yeah. I could see that working.

By: Hybrid

Hybrid — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:54:31 +0000

This game is absolutely amazing. It seems like something out of a H.P. Lovecraft story.

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:27:44 +0000

Also, the restart level button is within fat-finger-mashing distance of the ‘move left’ button.

But yes, holy shit, that is weird. I challenge anyone to play this with the sound up, at night, alone in your apartment, and not get the willies.

By: Tonic

Tonic — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:04:18 +0000

makes the unforgivable sin of putting the quicksave and quickload buttons right next to each other. on purpose, I suspect

By: MadTinkerer

MadTinkerer — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:02:36 +0000

“There’s something great fun about enjoying something without having the faintest idea what it’s about, or quite why you’re enjoying it.”

This is precisely the thing that catapulted a certain other famous platform game from a mildly successful arcade series into a ridiculously successful home console franchise. The name? Super Mario Bros., of course. Playing SMB back when it first came out was a trip and a half.

By: clovus

clovus — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:27:54 +0000

That’s the sort of thing movie characters say after they realized they just travelled 1000 years into the future.