Video Game Lab

Three games I played: QWOP, This is the only level, A Dance of Fire and Ice.

Two game with critial connection.

QWOP:

The name of the game pretty much explained how the play is played. The player uses Q, W, O, P to control the runner on the screen. Unlike other games that I’ve played, this game completely changed how I view player movement in a game. Q and W were used to control the runner’s thighs. O and P were used to control the runner’s calves. The simple move action becomes insanely difficult to perform. In the middle of the play section, new obstacles will appear on the runway. The dynamic gameplay is what makes this game so fun to play. Speak of dynamic gameplay, there is another game that I played in the Lab I have to talk about and its name is This is the only level.

This is the only level.

Just like the game’s name saids. The game only have one level but with different stages. The objective of the game is to move the in-game character to the other side of the map. Sounds pretty easy right? No. After every stage start, there will be new rules added to the game such as “Player can only jump once per life” or  “Player can only move to the right” to make the game sometime super difficult to play. Those surprising and confusing moment is what makes me wonder what’s keeping me playing the game. I would try my best to beat the stage and looking forward to the new changes to the game when I go to the next stage. This game and QWOP use their dynamic gameplay to make a pretty simple looking game with so much depth.

The Rhythm game: A Dance of Fire and Ice

Mechanic: I like the mechanic of this game. The mechanic of this game is easy and very straight forward: hit the kay when the bit dorp. The game becomes very challanging but rewarding at the same time after the first few level. I played this game for about 20 minutes and it is very hard to let go once I got the han of it. Super fun and challenging game.