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Icycle - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Sep 24th 2009 at 12:00PM
Icycle is a "capture the stars" style game where you control a naked (yes, naked) character. Instead of stars, your character is trying to collect frozen bubbles. Since he's missing his clothes, and if you ride him into a hazard and he falls off his bike, he freezes, or dies in numerous entertaining ways.
While the game play is solid, the physics of the game are pretty limited when compared to other side-view bike or car games. But Icycle isn't trying to be a physics-based game; instead it focuses on lush visuals and simple but challenging gameplay that requires memorizing the location of hazards and bubbles. Rather than scrolling as many games of this type do, you ride through multiple screens, which means that you don't get to see what's coming. It's admittedly a retro-style game, as the game's creator Damp Gnat freely admits.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rocky said 1:24PM on 9-24-2009
Link seems broken... getting 403 error.
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Jason Clarke said 1:43PM on 9-24-2009
It was working last night when I wrote this post - I'm guessing the attention this game is getting has pushed them through their bandwidth limit. Hopefully it's back soon.
DeoWulf said 9:20PM on 9-24-2009
Still says 403. Bummer.
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jimlefevre said 4:48AM on 9-25-2009
This game is an absolute delight, I played it consistently all last week, however, yes, the site seems to be down!
I've emailed Reece so hopefully it'll be back up soon, whne it does please please have a go, it's lovely!
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jimlefevre said 7:50AM on 9-25-2009
It's back!!!
He was having a nightmare with his hosting site - e-noise - who, although offering 'unlimited bandwidth' pulled the plug on it.
Ho hum!
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