Rock, Paper, Shotgun

I love this, but I’ll be frank. It does not feature a man being propelled through the air by his own anus*. I gather from the 47 comments on Icarus Proudbottom down there that you lot are big fans, and that’s fine. I mean, it’s not actually fine, but whatever. If you want some of that hot scatological jaculate action, you’ll find it below. If you want a cute, clever, tough-as-nails, hynotising browser game then that game is Negative Spacecraft from Paper Dino, him of Haiku Hero fame. Watch the trailer below.
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I’m sure that everyone will agree, what we were hoping the man behind the blistering Boss Rush would do next would be a game about making haikus. Our hopes are answered. Haiku Hero basically challenges you to make haikus (Three-line poems in a 5, 7, 5 sylables structure – English Teacher Ed) against a time limit. To make it trickier, as you turn up the difficulty level, it sets limits – like having it rhyme, include set words or only have words with a certain number of syllables. Here’s Chris Cornell’s designers notes. “Since it has already lead to one of my playtesters filling my inbox with Cthulhu-themed haikus for a week, I consider it a win,” he informs me, “I’ve decided that this subgenre should be officially called “Haiku-hlus”. Inform the authorities!” Consider the authorities informed. Go get poetositing, gaming sorts!

Paper Dino have been working on this for eons – in Internet time, anyway – so when many of you (of whom Andrew Davis was first) mailed us about Boss Rush, I was convinced we’d already blogged it. But no, we played a Beta before Chrimble. But it’s done now! It’s a shooter where you play the boss, basically. Five (count ‘em!) bosses are available to play, and – perhaps appropriately as Bosses are always Rubik’s Cubes with ultradeath – with its carefully designed challenges it can feel more like puzzler than a shooter at times. Go have a shot, or several thousand in a single burst. Trailer from late last year is below…
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