Filed under: Games, Time-Wasters
Continuity, a student-made and brilliant Time-Waster
by Sebastian Anthony Dec 3rd 2009 at 12:00PM
The game's website would suggest it's a student effort, but a quick search on the Web returns nothing else of interest. I don't even know if this guy wants his game linked here on Download Squad... but there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?
Continuity is a very minimal Flash game reminiscent of those stick-man animations that you know and love from the Internet days of yore. The only task is to get through the door, picking up a key on the way. But there's a twist; there's always a twist.
The key mechanic of this game is the shifting of tiles -- a bit like one of those annoying puzzles where you have to re-arrange eight pieces in an array of nine spaces. But in Continuity, once you've got the blocks (or 'cards') into the right position, you hit space bar and travel into the game world itself.
Once there, you have to navigate the environment by jumping and running. There are holes you have to avoid, and you can only move between the blocks in specific directions (but it's never one-way -- you simply can't move between some blocks). The trick, then, is moving blocks, zooming in and moving around the world with your stickman, and then zooming back out to manipulate the blocks again to eventually reach the end point.
It's surprisingly fun, very unique, and well worth a quick poke! I almost forgot: the music is really fantastic too. If it's an original composition, I tip my hat to you sir!
Go play Continuity now! [There's a warning that it doesn't work properly with Firefox, but it was fine for me!]
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Thomas Houston said 12:22PM on 12-03-2009
Goodbye, afternoon.
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Trav said 1:00PM on 12-03-2009
I saw this on twitter the other day! I think @kpereira linked to it. Pretty cool concept & I like the minimalist design.
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Sebastian Anthony said 1:07PM on 12-03-2009
Yeah, I got the link from another games student/academic type :)
Christian said 3:08PM on 12-03-2009
hahaha I got it from him too! I played it and I'm just 9 levels away from the end!
bryane said 11:46PM on 12-04-2009
lovely game, but i'm stumped on one of the levels that doesn't look possible (three pieces, you are with the key on one side of a vertical wall and the door is on the other). Some of the levels are absolutely diabolically clever, and I love the game within a game feel.
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ddoucet said 2:46AM on 2-25-2010
you must be referring to level #13!!!!
BremhillBob said 11:40AM on 12-06-2009
Continuity is a student project, created by Ragtime Games.
We are Elias Holmlid, Dmitri Kurteanu, Guy Lima Jr., and Stefan Mikaelsson.
We currently reside in Gothenburg, Sweden and study at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University
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