Afterthoughts...

I found this game while reading my kotaku feed the other day:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/2DArray/the-company-of-myself?sfa=permalink

The whole premise of the game is that the main character is a lonely hermit who has no one, and goes through levels by only helping himself. You get to a point where you're reunited with your former love but then you realise that you're meant to be alone after all. It made me sad when I got to the level where I had to kill the main character's love interest =(

It reminded me a lot of those depressing games we played during the last lecture. This one's quite interesting though... you learn the mechanics of the game as you go. It's not a straight platformer as you're able to create clones of yourself to help get yourself through the other stages. It's very much a game where you have to fail a level once to see how to complete it. There's elements similar to Braid in that you can't die - or rather, there's no penalty for dying.

I spent a lot of time playing this game, just because it was simplistic yet challenging.