11 June, 2008

A Brief Interlude: The Office

While my lizard man runs around punching people in the face, I offer to you a lightweight respite. The Office. I enjoy the show. The game is $9 on Steam. And my knuckles needed a break.



The basic premise to get everyone what they need to do their job. The problem is another office member is trying to beat you to it. And there's nothing more annoying than watching someone else take the credit by turning in a file you did most of the work on. The game does a good job of balancing a lot of elements. If you see your "enemy" pick up a fax, you go pick up a file folder. If there's coffee, grab it for a speed boost. If there's a prank ready, you can run over to Pam to activate it, taking your opponent out of the action. And you build a combo meter, so your score accumulates much faster if you can juggle all these things while still keeping everyone in the office busy. It's short, but spastic enough by the final stages that the length felt about right.

We now resume your regularly scheduled punching.

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