So, a few months ago I woke up in the middle of the night struck with a flash of inspiration. I booted up my laptop, created a new text file "gametitles.txt" and went back to sleep. In the morning, I opened the text file. There was a single entry: "The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis." I want to make this title into an actual trainwreck sometime in the future. A takeoff on The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, except all of the logic puzzles are actually independent random events with no logical connections between moves.

It's been ages since I've played The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, a kid's game based around teaching logic through colorful graphics and wacky characters. Most of the levels involve providing and input (mainly by choosing a zoombini and a path/bucket, where each Zoombini could have one of many different possible appearances that may or may not be important to the level), observing what happens, and intuiting the rules underlying that level's system.

The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis isn't a trainwreck. What is a trainwreck is some kid's Let's Play of The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The only one I found when searching youtube for '"Let's Play" Zoombinis' when trying to refresh my hazy memory of this game.

I'm having trouble mentally articulating what I find so special about this Let's Play, but here goes. This is totally something I would have done had I access to a camera and YouTube when I was younger. He's a kid just trying to amuse himself, but brave enough to share it with the world. He's a kid who doesn't actually seem to enjoy the game, but soldiers on regardless, echoing all those times in my childhood where I would play what I had and try to make the best of it. He's a kid who makes the same lame jokes over and over again when prompted by the same stimulus. He's a kid who tends to fill awkward silences with random bursts of casual racism. The Let's Play itself is recorded by a hand-held video recorder, capturing all the ambient noises in his room. Ceiling lights reflect off the monitor. In an odd bit of synchronicity, the viewer is made complicit with the player's confusion in one level where this light obscures an important clue that the player himself doesn't notice for a few minutes.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzr0aTssK0s
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcq5ooJaQvY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsk5FRRLSI
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVVhP8e77A
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTbHwWzKC94
etc.

Edit: This is becoming even more racist as I watch. "I love Italian people They make spaghetti and pizza and Mamma Mia! And they made Mario. Well, Japanese people did. Japanese people created an Italian person. What's the world coming to? Well, Japanese people made American people. You know, all of Earthbound. Yeah, I went there." -.-;

http://www.silvergames.com/wolfenstein-3d
If you don't know the location of all secrets in the original wolfenstein levels, I suggest looking up some map, because you WILL run out of ammo. Don't worry, the developer forgets to actually make the secret areas secret sometimes, so if you see a gaping hole in the wall proceed inside immediately.

Game File: 

abc2mouse.zip

test your mouse knowledge;
original game design by everythingstaken

control:
left click - pick a picture
esc - quit game

credit;
everythingstaken
https://fotocopiadora.bandcamp.com/track/chaos-bed music by fotocopiadora
quinn k for telling me how to say [WORD]

please spoiler or rot13 your solutions.

MORE ABC2 HERE --> https://aprilghoul.itch.io/

Game File: 

Juni The Jiant.knytt.bin.zip

or, "Fee Fie Foe Fytt"

A four-screen environmental thing.

Note: You can only go as far as the castle because beyond that is an especially wide patch of sea and I didn't feel like adding any powerups or continuing into a fourth hour of development.

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Games made for Klik of the Month Klub #7

Game File: 

RhetoricstuPG.zip

This is an experiment game made in GDevelop, a free game maker that does html5

index.html to start, spacebar to interact, left key to fight.

fight mechanics seem buggy

Download zip or play via the link via dropbox. Let me know if it doesn't work and i'll shit on my computer and throw it in a river

Game File: 

diff.zip

yeah I just kinda slapped this together.

Just a progress report. I think I'll finally pick the pace up on this instead doing maybe two or three things in a week. Stay tuned for the next blog post though.

Game File: 

bullet.zip

the queen of the Sapphire Galaxy is ill, and you are the CHOSEN ONE to avenge her death. (well she will die soon so why not start early) crush your evil stepsister, the princess of Rhinoceros Galaxy, and the heir to the throne before all is lost. she is also your father. shhhhhh! but thats a spoiler so why did you read that!!? bullets should be dodged, not collected, silly.