Posts tagged with “mushroom”

2009 was an awesome year for games! And we played a lot of them! Here’s a recap of the great games we played this year. If you haven’t tried them yet, now’s your chance! They are all FREE and just waiting for you to enjoy them.

Our year started off with a great little platformer called Eversion that has a scary twist (a retail version is in the works). We then laughed a ton while living out the Olympic dreams of QWOP. There were a few fun games in the Boston Global Game Jam, and The Redistricting Game taught us about how messed up our current electoral system is.

The Legend of Princess gave us a glimpse of what could have been a sequel to Zelda 2 (on the NES), and Dino Run ate up a bunch of our time as we ran away from Armageddon with our dinosaur brethren. Speaking of dinosaurs, have you checked out Robot Dinosaurs that Shoot Beams When They Roar yet? It’s a pivotal work in gaming. Gemcraft is an addicting little tower defense game with a fun chromatic twist, and Facade is an older game (2004 or 5, I think) but still a lot of fun to play today.

Effing Hail is a neat little flash game where you destroy buildings, airplanes, and satellites with hail, or if you are in a more constructive mood you can try building with Grow Cube. Don’t Eat the Mushroom (and Knytt Stories) is a hilarious game about what happens when you do (or don’t) eat the mushroom, and is a must play for any serious gamer. Finally this year we enjoyed racing through the apocalypse in Canabalt, and subsequently relaxed with the music of Auditorium.

These were all terrific games, if you haven’t tried them yet be sure to go play them all now!

Don’t Eat the Mushroom… what can I say, the game is hilarious, unexpected, and a ton of fun to play. It’s guaranteed to be different from just about anything you’ve seen before, and if you’re anything like us you’ll be cracking up the whole way through. I don’t want to give away too much because of spoilers, but I will say that it’s probably ok to disregard the advice in the level title. Go give it a shot!

Most of the time the games we post on “What We’re Playing” are simple browser based games, and don’t require complicated setup. This one is a bit of a doozy, but trust me it’s worth it. First go and download and install Knytt Stories, which is pretty badass in its own right. Once it’s installed go and grab the user generated level Don’t Eat the Mushroom by Uncle Sporky. You might have to sign up to get on the forums, which also sucks. Once you’ve downloaded the level use the built in installer to pop it into Knytt Stories, and enjoy! There are several endings, so you might want to play through several times.

Of course, if you like it there are many other user made levels for Knytt Stories, but I’ve yet to find one as awesome as DETM.