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Blocky - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jul 16th 2007
Finding Time Wasters to blog about should be considered a high-risk activity. While there's no doubt that it's a fun way to spend our time, the truth is that our productivity takes a serious hit every time we start testing out possibilities for inclusion as daily time wasters. Some are worse than others in this regard, but recently Blocky has been stealing a ridiculous amount of our time. Like all really great games, the concept is simple - draw a rectangle around any set of squares where the four corners of the rectangle have blocks at them of the same color. It's colorful and lively, with a countdown timer that keeps you mindful that if you don't hurry up and find a set of blocks to remove, your game is going to be over. And the level of challenge goes up just right as you start to get the hang of the game.
As always, don't say we didn't warn you.
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, ...
