By Alec Meer on February 7th, 2013 at 9:00 am.
Take two minutes of your life – for instance, the two you spend touching yourself inappropriately at exactly 5.17pm every day while wearing that yellow raincoat you like so much and looking at pictures of Ainsley Harriott – and spend them with this entirely silly browser game about a nonchalant Roman Emperor. It’s one joke taken exactly as far as it needs to be taken, no more, no less.
You are Julius Caesar. You have to judge stuff, with your thumb. Your thumb has the power to summon lions or have you wear natty hats. There are multiple endings depending on who you’ve had killed or not. There is an Indiana Jones gag. There is a shark.
Edit – aye, this was in Porpentine’s column a little while back, but a) my memory is awful b) there’s nothing wrong with enthusing about nice things twice.
07/02/2013 at 09:05 MiniMatt says:
Think the CMS has mangled the link – http://www.kongregate.com/games/molkman/caesars-day-off
/goes back to watching Ready Steady Cook repeats. In a yellow mac.
07/02/2013 at 09:09 Hodge says:
Didn’t Porpentine already mention this one a couple of weeks ago? ‘Tis brilliant all the same.
EDIT:. Yep, she did.
07/02/2013 at 09:41 Droopy The Dog says:
Was just thinking that…
Poor porp’, they keep mentioning games after her, it must be frustrating for her.
07/02/2013 at 09:56 Guvornator says:
It’s like the invisible woman fast show sketch http://youtu.be/DE3r_CgScms . And to think they accuse other people of misogyny…
07/02/2013 at 13:57 Bhazor says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1jfhaL3Ec
Pah, she was wrong anyway. Women, huh.
07/02/2013 at 10:02 El_Emmental says:
nah, she’ll be able to be “that” unknown artist, who did everything before it was trendy enough to reach a wider audience – she’ll be the one cited in the books and by the fans, and will receive lovely postcards from all around the world until her last days. A true, meaningful, life achievement (the postcards).
07/02/2013 at 15:21 The Random One says:
Poor Porpentine.
Poorpentine.
Though this is the first time I’ve seen RPS rereport one of Poorp’s games; usually it’s the opposite that happens, which makes sense since her column is a catch-all. But perhaps just to be on the safe side it’s better to assume no one on RPS reads her column because they are all misogynists, and also they don’t think her games are really games, because real games have DRM.
07/02/2013 at 12:46 LionsPhil says:
It was indeed a thing of beauty.
07/02/2013 at 09:16 DrAmateurScience says:
I heart this.
07/02/2013 at 09:23 empyrion says:
Just don’t like it on Facebook.
07/02/2013 at 09:43 blackguard says:
Thumb up.
07/02/2013 at 09:54 Kollega says:
The joke really is taken as far as it needs to be. I give it a thumbs-up!
07/02/2013 at 10:40 yurusei says:
Your comment sticks out like a sore thumb.
07/02/2013 at 12:16 Spoon Of Doom says:
As a rule of thumb, I don’t usually participate in pun threads.
07/02/2013 at 14:05 Low Life says:
At least trying to come up with puns is more entertaining than just sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
07/02/2013 at 11:24 Bluerps says:
No! Not my Ainsley-time! :(
Thank god I already played this, when it came up in a Live Free, Play Hard.
07/02/2013 at 11:56 captaincabinets says:
I love digital media.
07/02/2013 at 13:44 bobbobob says:
Hey. If you guys are upset about seeing something referenced or linked twice, then I’ll assume this is the first time you’ve used the internet.
07/02/2013 at 14:16 Aedrill says:
I hate the when people use the Internet twice.
07/02/2013 at 15:43 Bluerps says:
Wait – you can use the Internet more than once?
07/02/2013 at 14:16 Shooop says:
Suddenly, lions.
07/02/2013 at 15:39 Engonge says:
I laughed my pants off at the comment lion made on facebook!
07/02/2013 at 17:01 Porpentine says:
it’s impossible to mention little indie games like this too often–they get swept under the rug so easily
07/02/2013 at 17:59 Maniac says:
Thats indeed true.
I’m gonna go play it. Again.
Yay free stuff for broke people!
07/02/2013 at 17:59 Maniac says:
What the shit Alec, are you stalking me!?
HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE COAT!? AND THE PICTURES?
And the OCD-ness of my masturbatory timing!?
YOU’RE SICK!
… But meh, I still love you. Also I’m quite sure Porpentine already covered this game a while back, but I aint sure.