Tag: SEQUEL

When Lee posted about Fantastic Contraption back in 2008, I literally lost multiple days playing through it, mastering it, and then retrying levels in interesting and creative ways. It was, and still is, one of my all-time favorite physics-based games. So I was delighted today when a friend sent me a simple link over IM, and when I clicked it to find out what it was, I was greeted with its sequel, ...

After a nerdgasmic 'leak' to the Mac news sites last week, in the way only Valve knows how, Steam and Portal's sequel have now been confirmed for Mac OS X. Steam is exciting enough, if only because it finally opens up cheap-and-quick indie development for the Mac, but throw in the inclusion of Portal and... well... this is big news and it poses some serious, market-altering questions. First: ...

If ever there was a time waster for which the concept of a sequel seems ironic, it would be This is the Only Level. This is the Only Level's whole raison d'etre (sorry, I'm watching the winter games closing ceremony as I type this) is to play with the concept of what a level is. The game features one "level", if you define a level as how it is laid out on the screen, but you can complete many ...

It isn't often that we see sequels in the Flash game market. Occasionally you will see a new addition to a room-escape game, but it's rare to see a bona fide, better-than-the-original sequel -- they're a bit like films in that regard (Toy Story 2 is the only film in history that's better than the original, I swear). But here's Perfect Balance 2, the perfect successor to the massively successful ...