Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Is This a Game? Maybe not, but it's an awesome Time Waster!
by Jay Hathaway Jan 19th 2010 at 12:03PM
Here's the problem with games these days: too much actual playing and not enough unlocking of achievements. Is This a Game? might not be a game, but it provides you with 100 achievements to unlock using a (mostly) blank canvas. Pretty much anything you can think of is an achievement.
Clicking a whole bunch? Yep. Doing nothing at all? Achievement!
The thing is, you start to run out of ideas, eventually, and the non-game becomes a challenge to your creativity. Use the mouse, use the keyboard, and try different combinations.
You'd think it would get boring after a while, but it's frustrating to be defeated by a blank screen. I haven't been able to complete all 100 mystery tasks, but maybe you will.
Here's a free, quirky one for you: the Konami Code unlocks one achievement.
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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sRc said 12:10PM on 1-19-2010
I liked the reference to the other 'cheevo whore' flash game with the achievement "Who needs elephants?"
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Peter said 5:23PM on 1-19-2010
"You'd think it would get boring after a while" - and you'd be right. After randomly clicking around for about 5 minutes I had 41 achievements and no desire to try to figure out what the rest were.
Pretty pointless "game" where there is no way to even remotely guess what you are supposed to do.
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