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Use Boxmen - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Oct 15th 2009 at 11:00AM
Use Boxmen is a Flash game that requires you to solve each level by reaching the goal, which is a box that your Boxman must collect. You can run and jump like in most games like this, but your Boxman has an additional ability: he's able to spawn clones of himself which will continue to do whatever it is he's doing at the moment the clone is spawned. So, if your Boxman is standing still, the clone will forever stand in that place. If he's running to the right, the clone will continue running to the right.
The puzzles get fairly complicated, requiring multiple interactions between the clones in ways that are sometimes not intuitive.
Probably the nicest surprise of Use Boxmen is the soundtrack. The first thing I tend to do when trying a new time waster is look for the mute button for the game's music. In Use Boxmen, I found myself muting iTunes. That doesn't happen too often.
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, ...
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