Tag: GRAVITY

Every once in a while, I like to write about a game that doesn't have a complicated set of controls. To be honest, most time wasters don't tend to be very complicated, perhaps except for those that require using both the mouse and the keyboard at the same time. But there's a category of time wasters that manage to hit the simplest UI possible, and still remain playable: The "one-button" games. ...

Gravity, a new company set up by three former MySpace executives, has just had its public launch at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The company's rather ambitious goal is to become the "Pandora of the Web," able to bring you the content it thinks you might be interested in based on your interests. To gauge what you might like to view, Gravity proposes to use your public social network ...

I know the screenshot doesn't look like much. Wow, a bunch of dots – how exciting is that? But in Gravity, it's not what the dots look like – it's how they move. You see, each of these little dots is a virtual particle with its own "mass." The larger dots have significantly more mass than the tiny ones – more than just the visual difference. They seem to be about three times as ...

The very oddly named VVVVVV (pronounced "the letter V six times) is a new retro game from Terry Cavanagh that is very reminiscent of the Commodore 64 days of gaming. In fact, when the game loads, you see the classic blue loading screen with rainbow flickering borders, just like the good old days. The game also features 30 minutes of original chip music. VVVVVV focuses on a single game mechanic, ...

Gravit-eye is a challenging platformer-slash-puzzle game that asks you to maneuver an eye to a target by running, jumping, and shifting gravity. That means you'll have to play most levels both horizontally and vertically, and sometimes make a tricky mid-air change between the two. If you miss a platform and go flying off the screen in the direction of gravity, you'll have to start over. ...

Gravitex 2 is a classic gravity-based time waster. You pick a direction and amount of power, and shoot a ball off into space where various orbs' gravitational pull affect its trajectory. The goal is to collect all the green coins and get the yellow ball safely to its goal. Interestingly, the green coins are not persistent; if you collect one and get the ball to the goal, that coin does not return ...

Gravity Pods 2 is a physics-inspired game where the goal is to aim and shoot a ball, and have it arrive at the target. To get it there, you are given a number of tools, or pods, that you can place. The most common one is the red gravity pod, but there are also blue repelling pods, and silver bounce pods. As you might expect, the gravity pods pull the ball around them with varying force, depending ...

Downhill Snowboard is a physics game with a human dimension. You play the part of the snowboarder, and your job is to successfully navigate down the hill, while pulling off tricks over the various jumps you encounter along the way. The game is very similar to side-scrolling car-based games that require you to maneuver over jumps and other obstacles, but in this case you do not have an engine, and ...

Try as I might, I just can't get away from the physics games. There's something so compelling about applying real-world movement to a game, even if sometimes the physics are only approximations of reality. Collider, the game I'm into currently, does a fairly good job of approximating balls rolling down ramps and chutes, and otherwise reacting to gravity. There are three types of balls in Collider: ...

I've got good news and bad news. First, the bad: your girlfriend is dead. Now the good: the gods are giving you a chance to bring her back to life. To win their favor, all you've got to do is knock over several horrid monsters with a sixteen ton weight. Ok, so it's the same monster over and over, and it's really just his head. The Python-esque visuals took me back to the day I bought my copy of ...