Tag: PIXELS

The nicest thing about The Deeplight Expedition is the speed. For me, a large part of what makes a platformer fun is how the character reacts – does it run fast, does it jump high? And in The Deeplight Expedition, both are true; the protagonist is extremely responsive and zips all over the screen as you control it. Other than the fun dynamics, it's a fairly stock platformer. You don't have ...

When PixEvo - The Fountain first begins, you're a tiny, blocky pixel. You can't walk -- you can only skip from place to place, using the up arrow keys and then the left/right arrow while you're airborne. So you start helplessly bouncing around the screen, doing the only thing that you can really do at this point, which is "eat" the tiny dots. Suddenly, something happens! You grow bigger! Now you ...

When Pixel Legions started loading, I was confused. On the one hand, it has "pixels" in the title. On the other hand, it's a fairly large download for a Flash game -- around 3MB. It turns out those "pixels" are actually shiny, germ-like, tiny spots. The whole game has a "biological" feel to it, except that the dots are square and emit "light." You have a "base," which is a solid-colored square. ...