By Kieron Gillen on April 6th, 2010 at 4:30 pm.
Creator Patrick Richardson mailed us to mention his Unity-powered ball manipulation game (Missus! – Election Editor), I tried to remember why I didn’t post it when Schizoslayer lobbed it at me via IM a couple of weeks ago. And then I remembered. I’m posting now, as there’s a neat minor aspect to it. Basically, the first person to beat the 25 levels – without losing their lives – gets their name permanently added to the front page. Which is neat. You can play it online here or download (For Mac or PC!) here. Schizo and I couldn’t get past the third level before getting distracted. BUT SOME OF YOU ARE MADE OF MASOCHIST AND CRAVE ETERNAL RECOGNITION*. Some footage follows.
*”Quinns”.
06/04/2010 at 16:37 Richard Beer says:
Why do we spell it “Missus” when we say “Mrs”? Is it just some comedy convention that’s crept unnoticed into our language? As a fellow wordsmith I’m sure you wonder about these things as much as I do.
06/04/2010 at 17:13 jsutcliffe says:
@Richard Beer
Apparently some people are too good to look things up on the Internet themselves :)
“Mrs” originated as a contraction of the honorific “Mistress”, the feminine of “Mister” or “Master”, which was originally applied to both married and unmarried women. The split into “Mrs” for married women from “Ms” and “Miss” began during the 17th century. (Wikipedia)
… which always makes me wonder why we don’t have an abbreviation for “master” to mirror the feminine “miss.” Or if we do, why it is not in common use.
06/04/2010 at 17:49 jsutcliffe says:
Bah! Why must the edit function steal my line breaks?
06/04/2010 at 17:54 Quasar says:
Wouldn’t ‘Mr’ work just as well for Mister or Master?
06/04/2010 at 18:24 Wulf says:
@jsutcliffe
Handy trick I’ve learned: When editing a post on the forum, in the blank lines just put an (ampersand)nbsp; (even a blank alt+2>5>5 character might do it). When you finish the edit, the (ampersand)nbsp;s will separate everything up properly, so you’ll have paragraph both in the forum post and comments post.
06/04/2010 at 18:32 Vinraith says:
@Wulf
Thanks, I’d been trying to find some way to preserve line breaks after editing.
I’m pleased to see that this works.
06/04/2010 at 19:01 Richard Beer says:
@jsutcliffe I know perfectly well where Mrs came from without having to Google it! Perhaps I didn’t phrase myself clearly enough. Where did the word “Missus” come from? Why don’t we just type “Mrs” in comedy situations?
06/04/2010 at 19:16 jsutcliffe says:
Apparently some people are too good to look things up on the Internet themselves
It is rare for Mrs to be written in a non-abbreviated form and lacks a standard phonetic spelling. In literature it may appear as “missus” or “missis” in dialogue, and a variant in the works of Thomas Hardy and others is “Mis’ess”, reflecting its etymology. (Wikipedia)
So, to answer your second question, I suspect that it is something to do with written comedy often taking the form of dialogue between the writer and the audience.
06/04/2010 at 19:50 Beanbee says:
Master is still used as a title for young boys. I used to get letters addressing me as such when I was a kid.
06/04/2010 at 20:50 Arathain says:
@jsutcliffe: “… which always makes me wonder why we don’t have an abbreviation for “master” to mirror the feminine “miss.” Or if we do, why it is not in common use.”
Mostly because socially, women tend to be far more defined by marital status than men are. Obviously, this is becoming increasingly less the case, thank goodness. Note the rise of Ms. Language and language traditions reflect cultural thought patterns more than anything else.
07/04/2010 at 00:15 Toby says:
Please good Christ in a handbasket if you must say wordsmith do so in such a way that the sarcasm is blindingly obvious, otherwise one might think you a Garth Merengi wannabe.
07/04/2010 at 00:20 Toby says:
Not that I’m doubting or questioning your storyweaving abilities, you understand…
06/04/2010 at 16:50 Ian says:
For some reason every time the game loads it immediately takes me here:
http://www.wooglie.com/?g
06/04/2010 at 17:04 Kieron Gillen says:
Yeah, me too. Odd. Changed to a mirror I’ve found.
KG
06/04/2010 at 17:21 Hoshi says:
Damn this plays perfect with red/cyan 3D-glasses :-)
06/04/2010 at 17:46 Wulf says:
Will have to take a look at this once I’m done with Drone.
06/04/2010 at 18:27 Wulf says:
I’m total fail at this… stuck on the same part as Kieron. Still, it’s fun!
06/04/2010 at 18:04 Polysynchronicity says:
How about just “M”, as in “M. Bison”?
07/04/2010 at 00:05 Cinnamon says:
The M is for mike (and the d is for diamond.)
06/04/2010 at 18:49 Taillefer says:
Needs some fixing.
The tiles appear at the wrong depth sometimes, so that they appear in front of the ball even when the ball is on top of them. It makes it look as though the ball is about to fall off the edge, leading to an unnecessary adjustment, grrr. Stutters for me occasionally, but I do have other things active, so that may not be a problem.
Anyway, those issues were pretty frustrating, then it added ramps.
07/04/2010 at 00:08 Patrick Richardson says:
I will see about fixing this depth issue, as I’ve noticed it myself. Thanks for the feedback.
06/04/2010 at 19:01 Phinor says:
Dunno about the game but the music in that Youtube clip is simply superb. I miss games with great music like that – it’s all boring orchestral these days. Well ok there’s good orchestral too, but.. whatever, the music is what I miss most from the games of 80s and early 90s.
06/04/2010 at 19:31 Grunt says:
ABSOLUTELY. Ace music is ace. Wouldn’t mind getting me an mp3 of that…
06/04/2010 at 20:54 Wulf says:
Good chiptunes are good, this sounds like faux NES. I was never a fan of the NES but I do like modern music based on that kind of sound. I imagine this is what Megaman sounded like to people, back in the day? But yes, the music is really good. The music in the game is great, too.
06/04/2010 at 23:05 El Stevo says:
@Grunt:
The second piece of music in the video is Slayer Waves by FantomenK. You can get an mp3 from that address. They YouTube description suggests the first piece of music is also by FantomenK, but I can’t find it.
07/04/2010 at 00:35 Patrick Richardson says:
The soundtrack of all the music is available here:
(It is located on the right column of the page about the middle. You can play through all the songs and download it all. All credits go to various artists including: Teleidofusion, Matt Wilson, FantomenK, and Fear of Dark.
06/04/2010 at 21:12 neems says:
They should call it Cosmic Edge and send it to Dr. Langdell, I’m sure he’d be pleased
06/04/2010 at 21:39 mcnostril says:
I couldn’t care less about the game. Tried for about 10 seconds, got bored.
On the other hand, I just spent like 20 minutes rocking out to the title music.
unts unts unts
06/04/2010 at 23:11 El Stevo says:
@mcnostril:
mp3 here
07/04/2010 at 00:17 mcnostril says:
Oooooh.
Me love you long time.
06/04/2010 at 21:50 HarbourMaster says:
I got to level 6 and just couldn’t take it any more. I think I threw my balls off deliberately because I couldn’t see what the hell was going on with just 2 camera angles.
07/04/2010 at 00:04 Patrick Richardson says:
Hey guys thanks for mentioning about the wooglie redirect. I’ll be taking a look at the coding today and I will reply with the issue fixed!
07/04/2010 at 00:51 Patrick Richardson says:
The issue has been fixed. The problem with wooglie is that it’s hosting a very old version of the game.
until the LINK is changed to the original address you can access it here
07/04/2010 at 00:53 Patrick Richardson says:
http://gamejolt.com/online/games/arcade/cosmicube-reflex-game/1777/
07/04/2010 at 05:58 Dableo says:
Interesting little game, but I can’t consistently get past level 8 because the ball is outside the borders of the screen. It’s more than a little annoying, any chance of a fix?
07/04/2010 at 06:40 Patrick Richardson says:
If you’re talking about the unevenned edge, that’s part of the game. If you’re talking about something else then there’s definitely an issue and I’ll fix it! Before I can do anything though, could you link a screenshot or email it to daxiongmao87@gmail.com?
07/04/2010 at 10:20 Dableo says:
Picture:
This happens every time. I’ve tested it at 3 resolutions: 1024×768, 1360×768, and my monitor’s native 1440×900.
07/04/2010 at 10:22 Dableo says:
Looks like I messed up the link. Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1072643/cosmicube_bug.PNG
07/04/2010 at 13:34 Patrick Richardson says:
Thanks Dableo, this is very helpful. I’ll look into it before the end of the day :)