Bollen

By: Eos

On: September 3rd, 2006

A retro platform/puzzle game by Monokey made with <a href= “http://www.allegro.cc/”>Allegro, Bollen is simple and clean. The music is good. The goal is to move the pink/purple ball that you control to the red flags in each stage, collecting coins on the way.

The main feature is that your purple ball can only move fowards and backwards. So you must rely on the green Mr. Happy’s or the jump blocks in order to jump higher places. (The more I talk about this game, the more it’s starting to sound like a metaphor for life.)

The red Mr. Evil’s frown at you until misfortune dashes you against them. Then they laugh mockingly at you, pleased that you have failed miserably at life.

Posted in Freeware, Highly Recommended, Platformers, Puzzle, Windows

Mr Panda

hehe just played it.. very fun Mr.Evil makes me cry T_T good game!
dessgeega

so you’re on insertcredit, huh eos.
Mr Panda

lol im eos’s fan boy i guess =P
Derek

dess, actually I told her about it! And I am on insertcredit (kind of).
Eos

On Urban Dictionary, it says insertcredit is a “Website and premier free gay canadian porn spot for gamers”.

:|
Derek

Well there you have it! Who doesn’t like naked mounties covered in maple syrup (and video games)? ;)
DrPetter

Bollen beats gay porn any day. We need more of this.
Advenith

The red things seem like friendly, fluffy, loving bunnies compared to the threat of falling on the rocks.
Teeth

Gah, plurals don’t have apostrophes!
Eos

“Gah, plurals donâ€™t have apostrophes!”
I could have said “Mr Evil”s (with quotes) I guess, I was going to do that originally but then I changed my mind. If I did “Mr Evils” (without quote) then his name would have been different.
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

“Mr. Evils” would be correct.
Eos

â€œMr. Evilsâ€ would be correct.

I’m pretty sure that’s wrong because it would mean that the “s” is part of the name. :
DrPetter

You never know with these things… The convention, for example, seems to be to put punctuation inside quotes even if it’s not part of the quoted text, “like so.”
As a programmer I find that awful, and I can’t see why anyone would want to do it that way as opposed to the obvious “like so”.
Maybe it looks weird in printed text, I dunno.
There might be a similar strange “rule” about pluralized quotes…
prio

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/cmosfaq.Plurals.html

“When he refers to them in the plural, he insists that the correct form is â€œthe Wallaceâ€™s,â€ which seems entirely incorrect to me. I hold that it should be â€œthe Wallaces,â€ just like â€œthe McDonaldsâ€ or â€œthe McPartlandsâ€ or â€œthe DeVitos.â€”

“Usually in such arguments, the woman is right. Yours is no exception. The plural of names of persons and other capitalized nouns is usually formed with the addition of s or es. An apostrophe is never used to form the plural of family names. Write â€œthe Wallaces,â€ â€œthe Joneses,â€ the â€œJordans,â€ etc. See paragraph 7.9 of the fifteenth edition of CMOS for the full statement of the applicable rule.”
prio

Also: it does say elsewhere on that webpage that “[o]f course, if you come across a plural that would be misunderstood without an apostrophe, you should use one.” But “Mr. Evils” would not be misunderstood, because later in the sentence they are referenced as “them,” making it clear that the plural is in fact plural.
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

“You never know with these things…”

Er… yes you do. Grammar has clear rules like anything else. Apostrophes are only used to pluralize numbers written as numbers or single letters.

Thanks, Prio!
http://www.joy90.co.uk Moschops

Apostrophes are meant for missing letters or to denote possession, that’s it. It doesn’t even pluralise single letters. The phrase “mind your Ps and Qs” is correct, not “P’s and Q’s” despite it looking nicer.

I learnt that in primary school…

But, back on topic I liked this game. The collision isn’t great but the idea works and has been pulled of with a bucket load of charm.
DrPetter

“Grammar has clear rules like anything else.”

I’d oppose the “anything else” part of that statement, but whatever. Anyway, I know there are rules for all this but my point was that when grammatical rules go against gut feeling or general aesthetics they’re annoying. If they are based on some obscure old traditions related to outdated practices then maybe there’s reason to re-evaluate them. In this particular case I can see how “Mr. Evils” could be the best option, but my nemesis is still the punctuation-within-quotes thing (I only did that above because I quoted your period. So there.

Besides, I’m swedish so I’m excused for not writing english by the book – wooyay :)
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

Well, if we’re going to quibble about this…

Moschops: I’m sure you did learn that in primary school, but you’re wrong.

I didn’t say the *only* way to pluralize a single letter was with an apostrophe. Read what I wrote! It’s just a matter of style.

Fun examples!

Google search for “Ps and Qs” yields 75,600 results. Google search for “P’s and Q’s” yields about 170,000 results _and_ a definition.

Now direct your anger at Teeth — I’m late for an A’s game.

Dr. Petter: You’re excused from nothing! :)

I oppose you opposing the “anything else” part of the statement, because you’d _better_ know what I mean. Come on.

And humorously enough, while punctuation inside quotation marks bothers you, punctuation _outside_ quotation marks _really_ bothers me. Though, I’m often guilty of it.

But you’re Swedish, so I win this internet argument by default. Ha!
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

It is the spacing that makes that post look so long. THE SPACING!

…I need to get some fresh air.
Albert Lai

I come back after a week of horrendous internet and the first thing I see is a punctuation arguement. Oh well, that’s how the internet works.

Anyway, according to Lynne Truss of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” (page 45 if you want to get stickly)

7) It indicates the plural of letters

And, one that note, apparently putting punctuation inside quotes is English, and putting it outside is American. Or the other way around. Something like that.
http://www.TScreative.net BMcC

I’m sorry, Albert Lai. :(

Despite the vertical length of my post, I’ll have you know Moschops, Petter, and me… we’re like brothers. I wouldn’t trade them for the world. (Whatever _that_ means.)

<3
failrate

It is probably the Misters Evil, similar to The Brothers Karamazov.
http://www.joy90.co.uk Moschops

“Iâ€™ll have you know Moschops, Petter, and meâ€¦ weâ€™re like brothers. I wouldnâ€™t trade them for the world.”

At least if there’s a global shortage of new games to rant about, at least I know there’s a community here to argue about grammar instead. LOL.

“It is probably the Misters Evil, similar to The Brothers Karamazov.”

It’s the Brothers TIGS, surely? :p