Sunday, December 15, 2013

Feets of Fury and Protista (Or, How I Learned to Write Nothing and Still Make Progress)

This is not really a typical review post.  Instead, it's going to end up being one of those updates that consist of me whining for 2 or 3 paragraphs.  I did try to play both of the games in the title, but neither of them worked.  With Feets of Fury, it was the same situation as Connection Established.  All I can show you is a video.  Unlike Connection Established, though, Feets of Fury didn't feature their youtube video on their game's webpage, so instead of linking you to the game itself, I'm just going to link the youtube video.  The video makes the game look like a fun, fast-paced platformer kind of like A Flipping Good Time, but again, I wasn't able to play it, so I can't say.

Protista was a bit more of an interesting adventure.  I knew this was going to be an interesting adventure when the thumbnail featured not a screenshot taken from the game, but a picture of some guy playing the game...on his Nintendo DS.  I personally don't own a DS, and even if I did, I would have no idea how to put a file I found on the internet into a DS cartridge...or whatever.  Instead, I found a DS Emulator and tried to use that (so yeah, my hard drive is even more pissed at me than usual), but even after I did that, I couldn't get the game to work.  It starts up fine, but the game has no sound and barely responds to any of my input.  When a reviewer says a game is "unplayable," they usually mean that the game is just incredibly frustrating to play, but Protista is literally unable to be played, at least on the emulator I was using.  Frankly, I have neither the time nor the patience to experiment with different kinds of emulators, so I'm just going to consider both of today's games broken.  Ironically, I still managed to write more today than I have for games that actually worked in the past...not sure whether that says more about me as a writer or certain DigiPen students as game designers...

That's all I got for now.  Until next time, stay functional

Links
With incredible Speeds I'm Moving my Feets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zjyduEK0EM
I Miss Biology Class: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=436