Here’s a series of three excellent platformers one of which was voted one of the best indie freeware games of 2008, Seven Minutes is a good looking (though rather monochromatic looking platform game where you need to judge your moves carefully to be able to succeed, Plup fiction which is based on the famous film Pulp fiction is not recommended for the young ones due to swearing and violence involved in the game and finally snowball, a cut looking pastel shaded snowball rolling platformer.
Seven Minutes: (1.9Mb)
Seven Minutes is puzzling platform game that can be challenging at times. You haven't beaten the game unless you have seen the credits. The game has an interesting plot that makes you think. What would you do with your last seven minutes? This game was made in one week for Cactus' Winter Competition and it was inspired by Cactus' games, mainly psychosomnium.
Stage 1:
Your default platformer stance is beset by a floating white head who comes off like some kind of pranic demon. He tells you not to proceed, which in the language of level design means, "come further, you don't really have a choice". This is the kind of catch-22 that, all too common in life, seems utterly absent in games - no matter what prickly situation your protagonist finds (usually) himself in, there's always a neat puzzle solution or flow path to get out of it. Not this time.
Stage 2:
I feel like the satanic truth is underexplored in this medium. This game made me feel like this, particularly when her host entered her body. It hits the aesthetic like a carving knife through a sacrifice, replacing the redneck-ish satanic panic with a more geek-friendly kind of manic panic.
Stage 3:
The movement is pretty predictable: walk left and right, jump with a button you'll figure out by trial and error. The level design is generally unpredictable -- trick walls and invisible platforms, falling spikes, death is a part of life, with more vigor here than we've seen since Planescape: Torment. Death is essential to deciphering the way forward. The mechanic here is the titular seven minutes, of which additional time is deducted every time you squelch. In the end though, it doesn't really matter.
BECAUSE YOU ARE DOOMED!
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Stage 4:
This game also contains some flashy imagenary so epileptics should be warned.
Download:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/erkkavir/sevenminutes.php
or
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/Seven-Minutes.shtml
or
http://playthisthing.com/seven-minutes
Plup Fiction (3Mb)
Plup Fiction is a Pulp Fiction fan game. It features 9 levels of varying gameplay. You take the roles of Jules, Vincent and Butch as you face different challenges. The game has the option to display the dialogue in English or in Finnish.
This game was made for http://www.Suomipelit.com's summer game competition in which it placed second.
This game contains crude language and violence.
Download:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/erkkavir/plupfiction.php
Snowball (7.8Mb)
Snowball is a fun platformer where you can grow yourself to big giant or shrink yourself to a tiny ball.
Snowball features 3 different worlds with 12 different levels to play. Each world has it's own theme and it's own bossbattle. The game also has 36 different hearts to collect and with them you can open new artwork, musics and skins- a lot of fun stuff to discover.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq401LO6dBg
Download:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/erkkavir/snowball.php
