This was another one of those "not real exe" things, but thankfully, I was able to find a download link on this team's personal website. This lead me to discover that Fling was made by the same people who made Bossinabox, which I found to be mostly functional and amusing if nothing else.
Well I'm glad to say Fling is a bit more complex than Bossinabox...a bit. The basic gist of the game is that you control a catapult and your goal is to destroy the other catapults that are trying to destroy you. If you have friends, they can play too. I don't, so I just used the computer. The flow of events is very natural. You start off flinging rocks haphazardly at trees to collect resources and get a feel for the control and soon enough you've locked onto your enemy and are bombarding them with rocks of different shapes and sizes.
You have a variety of different rocks to choose from, but honestly, I didn't find much of a difference in any of them. Some do more damage than others, so the only strategy this particular design choice allows for is "pick the strongest one that you have enough resources to use." To be honest, I'm glad they didn't design the game around different strategies, because I tihnk the beauty of this game lies in its simplicity.
To be honest, that's really all I got in terms of a review, and it wasn't even a review. More of a summary. I'm glad I don't get graded on these blogs, because any critical writing professor would tear me apart. Since I'm not trying to get into Harvard with this or anything, I feel comfortable in leaving my final thoughts at this:
Fling is a fun game with a very simple control scheme, decent graphical style and rewarding feel. It's kind of like Bontago in reverse. Instead of trying to build stuff from a distance, you're trying to destroy stuff from a distance. Fling is much simpler than Bontago, sure, but if you've played both games, you know what I'm talking about.
That's all I got for now. Until next time, stay on target.
Links
the broken one: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=596
The real one: https://sites.google.com/site/habibloew/games
PS- the soundtrack for this game is the Lord of the Rings soundtrack...huh.
