Platform is an episodic browser-based platform game that is updated with a new level each week. Levels provide a variety of familiar platforming staples such as moving platforms, insta-death spikes, water and switches. The need to swap back and forth between the two protagonists is also heavily incorporated into the gameplay.
Arrow keys or A/D move, Z jumps. Switching between characters is achieved via the spacebar.
Requires shockwave.
Name: Platform
Category: Platformer
Type: Browser
Swedish developer Bits & Pieces Interactive brings us an innovative new twist on the paltformer genre with Fret Nice. The game can only be played with a guitar controller, requiring either a USB-to-PS2 adapter or a USB Xbox 360 guitar controller. Naturally, this will limit how many of you will be able to try it. If you have the ability to play this, however, you will be pleasantly surprised. Fret Nice is a recipient of the Best Game Concept Award at Swedish Game Awards 2007. It’s reviewer states that it is “a game with an innovative use of control, which impresses in many areas.”
The game will find you jumping to perform “air combos” that allow you to defeat the various enemies, as well as climbing, swinging, and slinging your character onto and off of various objects in the levels. In all cases gameplay feels fresh and is a lot of fun, while the nontraditional control method makes Fret Nice an innovative newcomer to the indie scene.
Name: Fret Nice
Developer: Bits & Pieces Interactive
Category: Platformer/Unconventional
Type: Freeware
Size: 28MB
Pekka Kana 2 is a charmingly old-school platformer where you must help Pekka the rooster save his friends after they were abducted by an evil crow. The author cites other platform classics such as Super Mario and Jazz Jackrabbit as his inspiration for the game.
As you journey across each of the 24 levels looking for the exit, a healthy array of bonuses, secrets and pickups are scattered across the landscape for you to make use of.
Name: Pekka Kana 2
Developer: Janne Kivilahti / Piste Gamez
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 7MB
MindScape is a flash platformer, developed by Manuel Fallmann. You play inside a ‘delusional state of mind’ and you must try to escape, which I thought was a unique storyline and fitted in with how the game played. The world you play in literally rotates, depending on where you go, since some parts of the delusional state of mind are not facing the same way as others. At times these mechanics work quite well and other times, they become a little disorientating. The general graphical presentation and soundtrack weren’t really my style either but the game itself did hold my attention for quite sometime.
Name: MindScape
Developer: Manuel Fallmann
Type: Flash