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Elephants are known to be obedient game players

ardgedee — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:01:26 -0800

OBEY! The Game!

Previous elephants on Metafilter: This is the Only Level Achievement Unlocked

By: empath

empath — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:10:18 -0800

clever-- got bored with it once it started repeating, though... and too easy.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:33:56 -0800

After awhile it just starts moving so fast- and in the level where you're positioning yourself in the non-spiky part, you start moving so fast- that it simply becomes unplayable.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:35:43 -0800

Cute. Wario Ware was such an eye-opener to me when I first played it—it's nice to see the same sort of macro-microgaming sensibility creeping more and more into indie game design, which seems like the natural habitat for such microgaming design concepts. Wario Ware's strength was in its variety, though; this is cute and leverages a lot of the same ideas, but has, what, eight or ten games compared to the 100+ in WW? Which I guess is the flip side of indie dev stuff—that's a lot of creative capital to ask a small or solo team to generate on the design front and make work.

By: The Lurkers Support Me in Email

The Lurkers Support Me in Email — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:46:31 -0800

It does repeat, but it also slowly speeds up. By the time you're 90 levels in it gets so fast that you have no time to think, you just have to OBEY.

By: doubleozaphod

doubleozaphod — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:54:49 -0800

Rapidfire mode is completely awful, but I managed 107 on Reverse mode... it REALLY helps to say the commands to yourself out loud. And no, I don't mind sounding like a complete idiot in front of my roommate. Pope Guilty: seconded.

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:59:28 -0800

It's no Gimme Friction, Baby!

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:22:08 -0800

On reflection, I guess that part of the skill of the game is having the kind of reflexes that are still functional at the highest levels. So a big determiner of your score is not so much your minigame skill (especially since there are what, six minigames here?) but the maximum speed at which you can function.

By: garnetgirl

garnetgirl — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:03:05 -0800

Fun distraction, but got frustrated when it got going too fast.

By: biochemist

biochemist — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:26:04 -0800

It was fun for a few minutes, but I got bored with the repetition and didn't play through the faster parts.

By: alasdair

alasdair — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:35:39 -0800

Absolutely brilliant.

By: niles

niles — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:49:36 -0800

Fun distraction, but got frustrated when it got going too fast. I had quite a few levels where I would start to OBEY, only to have Disobey pop up after I fail. :(

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:06:59 -0800

lvl 86 on my second try. As you get higher up, the speed just gets ridiculous.