Aha! Sensible Sophie Houlden, of Sarah’s Run, BoxGame and The Linear RPG fame, has sensibly done the sensible thing for her new, vector-y maze navigation game Swift*Stitch and sensibly released a free demo. It runs in a browser, and you should absolutely play it – it’s (very) loosely in the vein of Snake, but all controlled with two mouse buttons. One makes your right-angular character immediately move downwards, the other temporarily slows it down so you’ve got time to move downwards before you smash into a wall. And then it builds quick-thinking puzzle-complexity from there thanks to gradual additions to the environment.

It’s very clever, a little bit fiendish, I’m really quite fond of it and you can buy the full thing for $7 if the demo rings your bell. There’s also a video below if you can’t/won’t run the Unity plugin for the demo.
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Indie development type Sophie Houlden, who told us all to make games at the last World Of Love, has been following her advice and making a game of her own. It’s a Unity-based 3D puzzler, a physics-bending type affair, called Sarah’s Run. She’s posted a multi-level preview of it here. Go play. Provide feedback. That sort of thing. It’s also worth checking our Houlden’s other work over on her site.