{"id":696,"date":"2010-11-07T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2010-11-07T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T01:00:41","slug":"ifcomp-2010-flight-of-the-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/ifcomp-2010-flight-of-the-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2010: Flight of the Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Flight of the Hummingbird: An Interactive Costumed Caper” by Michael Martin<\/p>\n

Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn’t entirely clear on what it is he’s planning, but it’s big. This is clearly a task for one of the world’s mightiest champions!<\/em><\/p>\n

Hooray! This sounds light and fun, which is exactly what I’m in the mood for. Please let there be no zombies involved. Spoilers abound – proceed with caution.<\/p>\n

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The blurb continues in-game…<\/p>\n

\nUnfortunately, they’ve had to send you instead; the world’s mightiest champions have other<\/em>emergencies to deal with. New Year’s Eve is always rough.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t even hit the prompt and already the game is going exactly the direction I was hoping for. The premise of the game is that I’m a half-baked superhero who can fly by waving my arms very fast with the power of energy drinks. Of course, my flight time is limited; Every five turns or so I must take a sip of energy drink while plummeting toward the ground!<\/p>\n

\nYou’re particularly proud of the fact that unlike most of your heroic comrades-in-arms, you have a proper excuse<\/em> for your ridiculously overdeveloped pectoral muscles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t smiled this much all comp. Okay, okay, I’ll stop just quoting the game.<\/p>\n

Just kidding… I love this:<\/p>\n

\nTo the west you can see a fancy desk and an enormous pit taking up most of the room. Looks like the boss had an open-floor policy to go with his open-door one.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a short, fun game that’s tongue-in-cheek from start to finish. Navigation puzzles play a major part in this game, which isn’t always exciting but it works well enough. Everything is well-paced and well-hinted. The only time I need to consult hints was at the very beginning, when I left the mainland before discovering the wreckage with the crowbar.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit short, and a bit sparse, and there are times when my objective isn’t entirely clear. I knew what to do, but I didn’t know why. Hey, when there’s a big rocket on the island, what else are you going to do but launch it? However, I didn’t understand until liftoff why launching the rocket was going to help me stop a villain who had already escaped. Likewise, where did the original rocket come from? There’s no mention of an empty space in the hangar.<\/p>\n

So I really liked this – it was a fantastic little diversion, and not much more than that.<\/p>\n

Verdict: A<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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