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Tag: WarioWare

  • 2020 Doesn’t Deserve SPOOKWARE, but We’ll Take It

    2020 Doesn’t Deserve SPOOKWARE, but We’ll Take It

    SPOOKWARE from Adam Pype and Viktor Kraus is a gift to a broken world. Easily gaining Halloween Classic status, SPOOKWARE imagines if WarioWare’s namesake was less of a stinky capitalist and more of a Jigsaw.

    It’s one game of WarioWare with a high score of twenty, with one speed up at halfway. It’s tough! The microgames all only use the four arrow keys, but when you’re slamming all of them to rotate a garage door to stop THE GRUDGE from getting in, things start to get tricky. The horror inspirations range from Slenderman to your standard cow abduction, and after playing for an hour I laughed when I realized on their website there’s only ten in the mix. “10 BLAZING FAST MICROGAMES. EACH ONE SPOOKIER THAN THE LAST ONE!” as game’s page boldly states. I still haven’t been able to beat it.

    Look at that little guy!

    Adam Pype is currently teasing a follow-up to be featured in the Dread X Collection 3, so as SPOOKWARE’s protagonist so often rumbles, “hellll yeaahhhhh.”

    Here’s a bonus directly from the Dread X Collection 3 page about the sequel, SPOOKWARE @ The Video Store:

    I am ready for the skelebros.

    Check out SPOOKWARE on its itch.io page!

  • Only One Minute Before Restart – Racing the Reboot

    Only One Minute Before Restart – Racing the Reboot

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    You know how irritating it is when your computer keeps popping up a prompt to restart and update while you have absolutely no intention of doing so? You’re gonna turn the computer off eventually, right? And it’s only 2am, there’s still stuff to do!

    What if… wait for it… it was gonna restart whether you wanted it to or not?

    Enter: Only One Minute Before Restart.

    Made by Levi More for the Game Maker’s Toolkit Game Jam, you’re tasked with completing a quick series of puzzles/games in order to finish sending an important email before it’s erased. Playing like an extremely fast round of WarioWare, you’re given 60 seconds to figure out how to stop the reboot process.

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    You’ll fire arrows, play arcade classics, and scan through menus as the clock keeps ticking. As much as I wish there was more to see and do, it makes sense that the game is over nearly as soon as it starts. Additions of a few extra mini games and randomizing the order could go a long way in making this feel less like a one and done, but for a Game Jam its a perfectly enjoyable snack of an experience.

    If you’re quick enough to beat a frustrating computer, check out the game on its itch.io page.

  • Peter Panic is The WarioWare Broadway Show I Didn’t Know I Wanted

    Peter Panic is The WarioWare Broadway Show I Didn’t Know I Wanted

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    A well-written musical mixed with some straight-up WarioWare mechanics? Alright, I’m in.

    I rarely check the front page on the app store because I get tired of seeing either a dozen new Angry Birds / Flappy Bird / Happy Bird or whatever people are cloning anymore flooding the screen. I usually leave that job for the heroes at TouchArcade while I wait for them to weed out the chaff. But this time I made a risky click. I downloaded a game from the App Store, sight unseen.

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