This weekend we take a look at a few quick games of varying style…

Cakewalk 7000 (Jonathan Zhao)

Cakewalk 7000 is  a short and simple think-outside-the-box type platformer. The objective is to deliver a cake (which you carry throughout the adventure) to Princess Hart (don’t make any presumptions, trust me). The platformer bears smooth, cartoony graphics and puzzles are initialised via messages left on the floor from the princess. Cakewalk 7000 was created for this year’s Global Game Jam and as it is Jonathan’s first complete game, it is a great achievement.

pitan et ali IV (noobjam)

This weirdly named arcade game is a quick one-on-one shooter based in a small arena. With your chosen player you must defeat the opponent simply by firing bullets across the screen to the simple AI; each match involves two battles where the characters are positioned on alternate sides of the arena. It is very difficult, even with the given 4-point handicap, but the characters are well sprited.

TapesTry (Marcos D)

TapesTry is an interesting puzzler kind of game, created to meet the theme of ‘rejection’ in the latest Experimental Gameplay contest. You play as a Quality Assurance monitor and must reject all tapestries that don’t meet a specified similarity to the ‘Target Tapestry’. The game becomes exponentially difficult as the tapestries become more and more complex. The graphics are nothing special and there’s no music but it’s a unique experience that puzzle fans may enjoy.