For this week’s episode of Side by Side, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I say very little as we focus all our energy on Sandwich_Generation’s LazerGrrl.
LazerGrrl is a fast-paced single-screen PvP real-time strategy that’s still in development. The aim is to collect energy and pipe it back to your bank in order to power lazers to zap your opponent’s infrastructure and face. Think of it as a brainy Bomberman.
This is a game I supported earlier in the year through Kickstarter before considering it as a Side by Side candidate. While we only played it 1v1, I can imagine team versus for four players (and above, apparently) being a blast. I frickin’ loved it. Like Fling to the Finish, LazerGrrl also supports online multiplayer.
There’s a Lite version available for free which you can play through your browser here.
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Something about watching this game in play struck a chord with me. As you noted in the video, early in a game you’d both be chattering away, but past a certain threshold there’d be no talking, as it became more intense and complex. It seems like neuroscientists could use this to measure some elements of human multitasking or something.
That plus its overall simplicity which nonetheless resulted in a very complex game shows signs of great design. I didn’t hear about this one when it was on Kickstarter. Simple but brilliant!
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JOEL: …I’m old
GREGG: Awww.
Don’t feel bad Joel. What we lose in reaction time we gain in wisdom. And self-loathing.
Gregg has undergone a metamorphosis by the end… he doesn’t seem like himself.
Hahah, yeah, that was our favourite bit as well. It’s the subtle digs.
There’s another episode where I feel I come across as quite arrogant and you just want something bad to happen to me. And it does. Big time. Karma’s a beech tree.