Blog Post 5, Games I played in class

During class, I played a couple of games with Tony. Five notable games I played were QWOP, Canabalt, Super Puzzle Platformer, This is the only level, and Oregon Trail.

QWOP was an awkward game for us to play since the control mechanics for this game was extremely hard to get used to. The game basically lets us control a runner calves and legs and we use the q w o p keys in order to control him. Each of the keys listed let us control a different part of the leg and due to this, we had trouble moving the runner very far. Basically, we button mash our way to victory or like 1 meter.

Canabalt was a fun game where you control a player and make him run across the map. This is essentially a platformer where you jump over the obstacles with the jump button. The fun part about this game was competing with Tony to see who can get the furthest.

Super Puzzle Platformer was another game we played which was very  interesting. This is a puzzle game where you match blocks randomly fall down and when the colors matches or whenever you feel like shooting, you shoot the block in order to destroy it. It's better to shoot the blocks when they all match in color so you can get a higher score. Overall, this was a very fun game to play.

This is the only level was a game with only one level. This was a simple game where you move to the goal and repeat the level, but what this game did that was so perfect was that it varied the level design so that you can experience a multiple of gameplay mechanics. Examples of this are where the room darkens and you see nothing and have to memorize the map layout beforehand or when the camera zooms in on the character and you can't see the overall stage anymore.

The last game we played was Oregon Trail. Oregon Trail was a simple click and point game where the game plays by itself, and we supply the answers to the options and the game moves on. The game was not particularly fun to play, but it had a simple game play mechanic where you just pick options and pray you make it to the end.

Overall, I liked Super Puzzle Platformer the best out of the  games I played because I thought the game play mechanic was a fresh way to experience puzzle games.