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'Skin Deep' is a stinky sci-fi shooter from indie icon Brendon Chung
It's like Die Hard and Far Cry 2 had a blocky, intergalactic baby.
Quadrilateral Cowboy invites you to hack the planet (or a hallway)
Hacking computers has become commonplace in video games. The subversive activity has worked its way into countless games, even those where it doesn't belong (really, TMNT?). Hacking in games is generally a vague abstraction of the real thing. You hold a button as a progress bar slowly fills, rotate panels in a thinly-disguised version of Pipe Dream, or maybe you connect circuits in a diagram. Quadrilateral Cowboy, the latest from Thirty Flights of Loving developer Blendo Games, takes a drastically different approach to computer infiltration. You aren't just pressing buttons or solving a mini-game; you're actually typing in code. Want to turn off a security laser? Easy, just type "laserX.off(Y)" into your portable hacking deck, where X is the designated number of the laser and Y is the number of seconds it will remain off. Sure, it's still an abstraction of the real thing, but hacking in Quadrilateral Cowboy requires a bigger investment in both time and forethought than most espionage games, and pulling off a flawless hack is thrilling.
Thirty Flights of Loving now seducing Mac
A Mac port of Thirty Flights of Loving, Blendo Games' follow-up to indie darling Gravity Bone, is now available for $5. You can get it through Steam or, if you'd prefer to avoid DRM, Blendo Games' website.Originally bundled into Idle Thumbs' Kickstarter package, Thirty Flights of Loving made its debut to non-backers in August. Thirty Flights of Loving continues creator Brendon Chung's desire to tell a story within a linear, first-person adventure framework. It's a short game, and apparently a very good one too.
