Just one more game, honest...
The brilliant xkcd published this comic awhile back. I knew it to be true instantly (me and a million others, it’s not hard to see the artists’ smarts) but I couldn’t remember a specific game that had caught me recently.
Well, pshaw. I’ve found a game that I cannot get enough of, and like all good disease carriers I must now bite your elbow innocuously so that you may keel over and die.
Yes, I’m too fond of metaphors.
The game in question is Curveball. It’s blessedly simple. In rough 3D, you are playing a Pong-like game against an AI opponent. Just like in Pong, you win a point by getting the ball past the other player. Unlike in pong, you’re playing in a rectangular tube, so the ball can bounce off of four walls as it goes back and forth. Last and most crucial, the physics engine allows for ridiculous amounts of english to be applied to the ball, making for some hair-raising exchanges as you progress.
Give it a try for yourself and see what I mean.
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