jerry clouds

September 22, 2013 10:54 AM

jerry clouds is a soothing little art game where you help Jerry make clouds. (via Terry Cavanagh's freeindiegam.es)
posted by Going To Maine (15 comments total)

This game makes me sad.
posted by sfts2 at 11:06 AM on September 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

Does it brilliantly demonstrate the cycle of life or is it bullshit?
posted by zzazazz at 11:13 AM on September 22, 2013

You should've been able to read the tombstones before you generate the clouds. Each tombstone would be a username that ever finished the game.
posted by cyberscythe at 11:16 AM on September 22, 2013

It brilliantly demonstrates that the cycle of life is bullshit.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:17 AM on September 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

That last boss was pretty rough, but eventually I got him. Next time I'll try to get a perfect so I can get to the Hell Temple.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 1:34 PM on September 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

For another emotional tearjerker, try the creator's earlier game, baker flowers.
posted by ZaphodB at 3:26 PM on September 22, 2013 [4 favorites]

Terry Cavanagh?
posted by rlk at 3:41 PM on September 22, 2013

Cavanagh created freeindiegam.es to curate, uh, free indie games that he finds interesting for whatever reason. It's moderated by a few other folks as well. While some of the posted games are addictive little action games (e.g. Pause Ahead) many more are odd little experimental things. This one I think is more of a novelty.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:46 PM on September 22, 2013

The link keeps taking me to a game company main page - what's wrong?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:02 PM on September 22, 2013

soothing little art game

emotional tearjerker

I DON'T TRUST ANYTHING ANY OF YOU SAY ANYMORE
posted by byanyothername at 4:12 PM on September 22, 2013 [3 favorites]

The link keeps taking me to a game company main page - what's wrong?

Which link? The game is hosted at Kongregate, so hopefully it's taking you there...
posted by Going To Maine at 4:21 PM on September 22, 2013

I was trying to access from my iPad - the "jerry's clouds" link lets you get to the Kongregate main page for mobile that way, but not the game itself.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:06 PM on September 22, 2013

Except that it's making me sign up for a free account. Any way to play WITHOUT doing that?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:07 PM on September 22, 2013

You should be able to play without signing up. (Just did a test.) If it seems like the game isn't loading, try closing the "SIGN UP" tab, which is the one that has defaulted as open.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:21 PM on September 22, 2013

I played this late at night - very annoying that it somehow over-rides my PC's sound settings, and blasts full-volume out of the internal speakers, even with "mute" on, and the headphones in. I had to apologise to our neighbour on the floor above.
posted by raygirvan at 1:15 PM on September 27, 2013