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Average Shoveler: 8-bit headline zen - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Dec 28th 2005
There's a lot of
things you can do with RSS headlines, but this isn't one I had thought of: Average Shoveler is a Flash toy with old school adventure game-style
graphics. You control a character who can do three things: walk around, shovel snow and talk to passers-by. The
passers-by will tell give you news (scraped from Yahoo! News) and when you shovel the snow, news photos will appear.
Occasionally large chunks of snow will fall and photos will fly inall directions (try not to be under those when they
fall, though). There's really no object to the game, other than to shovel snow, learn about current events, and
explore. Eventually, though, the snow will win.
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, ...
