A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:51:00 GMT

A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder

I love games that put you in control of unlikely protagonists. Games are so perfect for that. Take Death Worm, for instance. In no other medium could you so effectively capture what it’s like to be a giant sand worm!

Petri Purho, best known for his great, “under a week” experimental games like Crayon Physics, has made a game that puts you in the shoes (er, dirt?) of a giant rolling boulder trap, ala Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the game you are charged with defending two golden idols from the hoards of filthy archaeologists trying to defile them.

But they’ll run from you. Oh, how they’ll run. These are some of the fastest fucking archaeologists I’ve ever seen. Screw gold idols… these guys could be winning gold medals. (Zing!)

Fortunately, you can do one thing that the original rolling boulder couldn’t – namely, jump. This will let you get to the upper parts of the temple, which is still not an easy task, due to how small and unwieldy the platforms are at the higher levels. In fact, getting to the platform in the upper right corner can be downright infuriating!

But man, is it fun to slam a group of brownhats and send them flying and screaming. Ragdoll physics for the win! This is a highly inventive and entertaining game.

And, of course, here’s the obligatory video of someone completely and utterly destroying the game.

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  1. Skaldicpoet9 said about 2 hours later:

    Wow, this game rocks (no pun intended lol) I loved the simple gameplay mechanics behind it. This is definitely worth a download…thanks Derek:)

  2. fish said about 2 hours later:

    petri FTMFW.

    is all i have to say about this.

  3. Skaldicpoet9 said about 2 hours later:

    lol…for real

  4. Peni said about 7 hours later:

    Diz gamez r0x0r5 da sh1zn17 beea7che5! Pwnta9e omg0dz0rz!

  5. King-N said about 7 hours later:

    A change of pace huh?

  6. Shih Tzu said about 8 hours later:

    FTMFW? Does that mean “female-to-male transsexual looking for woman”? I’m afraid I can’t help you there.

  7. crackers said about 9 hours later:

    That sound like a character class in the worst RPG ever.

  8. Peni said about 10 hours later:

    j00 b33a7ch35 n33d 70 l3arn da 1337. D15 9am3z pwnz da 5ch1zn17.

  9. moi said about 11 hours later:

    B1@ 847D4 4LYFE Y0

  10. crackers said about 12 hours later:

    Peni was cooler when he was drunk but at least still coherent.

  11. King-N said about 12 hours later:

    I know Leet Peni, allot of people do.

  12. the2bears said about 14 hours later:

    I thought Timmy was down the well again.

    Bill

  13. Chris L said about 17 hours later:

    Will someone please make a game where we get to play AS the well that ate Timmy?

  14. Ryan said about 17 hours later:

    I absolutely love the ragdoll effects on the archaeologists, as well as the crunchy audio sound effects when you are rolling around the boulder. Neat game :)

  15. Petri Purho said about 18 hours later:

    “FTMFW? Does that mean “female-to-male transsexual looking for woman”?”

    Sorry Phil, I can’t help you there either.

    And thanks for blog post. It’s nice to know that there are at least some people who dig the boulder.

  16. fish said about 22 hours later:

    For The Mother Fucking Win.

    gosh!

    nervermind. take 2:

    Petri is great!

    there.

  17. Shih Tzu said 1 day later:

    Noted! Actually I looked it up on urbandictionary.com afterwards.

    This game looks neat. I’ll try to look at it when I get time.

  18. Derek said 1 day later:

    Petri, I just realized that this game really needs a hotseat multiplayer mode!

  19. Petri Purho said 1 day later:

    I was thinking about adding hotseat multiplayer mode when I coded the game. But then I totally forgot about it.

    If I have enough free time (not very likely) I’ll try to implement the hotseat for boulder.

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