vertical & rrrrrpg

Posted by dessgeega Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:26:00 GMT

vertical

always up to no good, alan gordon (who you may remember as the author of zi) has just released a pair of old projects onto the internets.

vertical is technically unfinished – there are no enemies or encounters. what remains is the architecture of the game, a randomly-generated tower of infinite height that the player scales with wall-jumps and a grappling hook which bears comparison to umihara kawase or turrican, depending on your background. once one becomes comfortable with the controls, the game becomes a meditative experience.

rrrrrpg, on the other hand, is a complete game. unofficially standing for “really really really random role-playing game”, but officially for nothing, rrrrrpg is a jrpg without content. all that’s left is a trio of abstract shapes roaming the countryside, fighting enemies for experience and money, and wandering back to town to buy better weapons and armor. it is the purest distillation of the jrpg.

check professor gordon’s blog for information on the upcoming zombie city survivors, as well as the zombie city games it is based on (now available for mac).

update: vertical now has a speedrun mode, accessible by pressing R.

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  1. NO! said about 6 hours later:

    “umihara kawase or turrican” AGH!!! I hate these n00bs! The reference should be to BIONIC COMMANDO, OK!!!

  2. ithamore said about 9 hours later:

    RRRRRPG makes me wish someone would program an RPG based on “Flatland.”

    The Wikipedia entery:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

    The book in html with images:

    http://xahlee.org/flatland/index.html

  3. Twisted Rabbit said about 12 hours later:

    I like Vert, i will prob try rrrpg, but im not a big fan of rpgs.

  4. raigan said about 24 hours later:

    to NO!: the rope is way more like umihara than bionic commando, since you can fluidly adjust its length, and swinging is smooth.

    so there! ;p

  5. Mazapan said 1 day later:

    I actually found rrrrrpg were entertaining even thought I’m not a big rgp fan. There’s just something about it. Pure destillation of fun.

  6. Mazapan said 1 day later:

    I can’t spell nor write gramatically grammatically correct sentences :/ “I found rrrrpg very entertaining even though…”

  7. prio said 1 day later:

    Also, it’s spelled “distillation”.

    Now that thing you’re pointing at me, that’s spelled “pistol”. If it were “pistil”, it would be part of a fl

    NO CARRIER

  8. mushu said 3 days later:

    This is what indie games do well.

    cough

  9. MD said 4 days later:

    The games is are free software!!! awesome

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