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So you made a videogame that hid the things you were trying to exhibit?! Had some doubts but released it anyway?! Now you’re trying to crawl back in with a different version that lets the audience see the Unity GameObject menu brought to life?! No, wait, that’s me! Enjoy it if you can!

It is as if you were doing paperwork

Nothing feels quite as good as filling out forms! Am I right?! Choose any pen you want and get to it! Check boxes! Sign your name! Calculate numbers! Sigh loudly and scratch your neck! It’s all the action of the non-digital office environment in the discomfort of your own home!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment
(Originally released 30 November 2011)

You can do it Sisyphus! Be the boulder! Keep on rollin’! Don’t stop! Never give up! No retreat! No surrender! No end in sight! Just delicious Greek torment as far as the eye can see and as fast as the fingers can type!

PONGS
(Originally released 11 April 2012)

Bip! Bip! Bip! Boop! Everyone loves PONG! So everyone loves thirty six PONGS even more! Work those learning muscles with EDUTAINMENT PONG! Get serious with SERIOUS PONG! Shoot a laser gun in LASER PONG! Play PONG in PONG PONG! And many more!

The Nothings Suite

Nothing to see here! But don’t move along! You can really see the nothing here! Examine the nothing! Think about the nothing! The nothing is where it all begins!

Combat at the Movies

Sure, great works of cinema are great! But aren’t they missing something?! Yes! They’re missing tanks! Move over Orson Welles! Move over Robert DiNiro! These tanks are ready for their close-up!

Chesses 3

How much chess would a chess guy chess if a chess guy would chess chess?! Eight more chess variations hot and chessy out of the chess oven! Chess ‘em up!

Chesses 2

You’ve chessed! You’ve chessesed! But have you chesses2ed?! You haven’t?! Game on! Peer through the fog of war! Go through the cycle of death and rebirth! Experience the hottest new XR app in town!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Competition Edition

Fly like an eagle! Climb every mountain! Reach for the stars! I mean apple! Empty your opponent’s bathtub just before they get in!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Five-in-One

It’s pushing! It’s running! It’s reaching! It’s suffering! It’s five ancient greek punishments for the effort of one! It’s everything!

Chesses

Your pieces slide! Your pieces fall! Your pieces do the strangest things! It’s chesses unlike the chess you normally chess! Bet you can’t chess just one!

Chogue
(with Jonathan Lessard)

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Chess! It’s a Rogue! No! It’s Chogue! Faster than a Blitz Chess player who just drank a Potion of Haste! More powerful than a Sicilian Dragon! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! It’s the Chogue that refreshes!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Bitsy Demake

The boulder is practically square! The apple is barely recognisable! Yet you push! Yet you reach! Yet you strain! Yet you weep! Punishment knows no minimum resolution!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Twine

Hypertext! Hyperpunishment! Click links while your heart sinks! Read texts and repent your defects! Enjoy the Twine! Your soul’s on the line!

Rogess
(with Jonathan Lessard)

e4! e5! Nf3! Nc6! White knight captures black pawn! Black knight attacks white knight for 2HP of damage! White knight misses black knight! What the hell is going on?!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Chess Edition

Chess! It already feels like a punishment to so many people! But now even more so! What if Zeus threw chess sets instead of lightning bolts?! What if Archimedes was a vengeful god?! What if you just kept getting chessed for eternity?!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Teaches Typing

Type! Type the boulder up the hill! Type the eagle away from your liver! Type, damn you! It’s Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing in the depths of Hades! Feel the burn of your repetitive strain injuries!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: UI Edition

Sliders! Radio buttons! Dialog boxes! Menus! Progress bars! These are the instruments of our eternal contemporary torment! The ancient Greek gods would have approved! We are all Sisyphus now!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Inversion Edition

Torment characters from Greek mythology! Forever! Push Sisyphus back down the hill! Peck out Prometheus’s liver! Withhold the apple from Tantalus! Albert Camus said we must imagine Sisyphus happy! So the boulder must be even happier! Right?!

Tanks!?

Tanks shooting tanks! The tanks are upside down now?! Tank on tank action! Why is that cactus floating into the sky?! Shoot that tank! The sky seems to be green?! The shadows have all vanished?! That tank just drove down through the ground?! That oil derrick grew to three times its original size?! What is this, some kind of completely artificial videogame world?!

Sibilant Snakelikes

Sssnakes can do anything! Sssubdue colossssssi! Ssstamp passssssportsss! Sssweep minesss! Ssscore goalsss! Ssstop missssssiles! Circumvent ghossstsss! Ssswwoop through World 1-1! Go sssnakesss!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: CPU Edition

Watch the computer struggle against the chains it put itself in! Watch the computer try to drink the water it moves out of reach! Watch the computer push a rock up a hill and knock it down again! In a joyful infinite loop! One must imagine CPU Sisyphus happy!

SNAKISMS

Life is meaningless! Maybe you need some kind of ism to attempt to ward off the inevitable and unavoidable despair! Here, have some isms made of snakes! Life is still meaningless but now you have a bunch of snakes as well! Thank me later!

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Limited Edition

It’s Greek punishment! Again! Push a rock up a hill! Again! Try to drink the water! Again! Struggle against your chains! Again! It’s all the same! But everything is different!

Indie Bungle 2: Breakout Indies

Independent games! Cloned! In a way! All the fun with none of the features! Hot topics! ‘Sex’! ‘Death’! ‘Art’! ‘Alternate Dimensions’! ‘Golf’! Bricks! Balls! Paddles! Breakout!

BREAKSOUT

What’s better than breaking out?! BREAKSING OUT! Breaks out to your heart’s content in these wonderful variants of your old family friend! Snake it up in SNAKEOUT! Feel the love in GHOST BREAKOUT! Experience the future of entertainment in BREAKOUT VR! Or have a meaningful cultural experience with РАЗРАЗИТЬСЯ!

Sound System II

You want to break free! You want to! Break free! If a ball hits a brick in a game, does it make a noise?! Sure sounds like it!

Let's Play: Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition

It’s a game! In a painting! On a wall! In a gallery! In a game! Or something! Marvel as you once again confront that most boring question! Are games art?! Is art some kind of a damn game to you?!

Get X Avoid Y

Get! Avoid! Avoid! Get! Get get avoid get! It’s the stunning culmination of every game you’ve ever played! You don’t have to like it but you can’t avoid it! Got it?!

Snek.

This project fell out of date on Apple's App Store and is no longer available.

Snek. is Snake! With better music! And really awkward controls! Learn to love turning your iDevice around and around in your hands! Tilt your screen away from you and realize you can’t see what’s happening anymore! Thrust your device in all directions and get a great workout! Snek.!

Two Player Breakout

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

Two player single keyboard action! You are bat! You are bricks! Finally bricks has a say in the matter! Fight for survival in the ball-eat-brick world of Atari-era Breakout! Watch out for those third-layer orange bricks! They’re a doozy!

All's Well That Ends Well

This is a Flash project and Flash has been discontinued. View the game's page for more information.

You can do it Sisyphus! Be the boulder! Keep on rollin’! Don’t stop! Never give up! No retreat! No surrender! No end in sight! Just delicious Greek torment as far as the eye can see and as fast as the fingers can type!