Based on the Ludum Dare idea of “the more you have, the worse it is” Goblins 2 Go (on Itch.io) is a intelligent little browser-game from SFB Games the creators of latest Switch success Snipperclips. It’s free and completely value ten minutes of your time, placing you within the sneakers of a hard-working witch producing made-to-order goblins by means of some rigorously eyeballed potion-blending.
Ludum Dare dev-jams (official site here) are seldom lower than amusing. They supply members a one-sentence idea and a week-long time restrict and result in the creation of a whole lot of unusual little video games, a few of which is able to undoubtedly develop into one thing extra business, and most might be at the very least value a glance.
Goblins 2 Go is a a beautiful execution of this jam’s idea, and an inversion of one thing we see in so many video games nowadays: a slider-based character creation display screen, obfuscated simply sufficient to show it right into a satisfying little sport. Customers line up outdoors your door with an outline (handily represented as a pencil sketch) of the goblin of their goals, and also you’ve received one shot at pouring in simply the correct amount of every potion to mutate your generic off-the-shelf goblin into the specified form, adjusting its arms, legs, head and face on two axes every.
There’s no actual victory or failure state, nevertheless it’s quite a lot of enjoyable to shoot for accuracy, and remarkably difficult. As the potions themselves are physics-simulated liquid, pouring out the correct amount requires precision and care, and it’s all too simple so as to add an excessive amount of, with no technique to undo your errors. Did the client ask for ‘Slightly buff’, and your hand slipped? That goblins goes to be constructed to elevate vans, and the dearth of failure state implies that even screw-ups are humorous and rewarding in their very own, weird means.
It’s a high-quality instance of originality spawned from one thing acquainted from a contemporary angle, and I might simply see this expanded into one thing business, though it’s greater than value a glance in its present incarnation. You can try out Goblins 2 Go here on Itch.io, though because it runs in Flash, Chrome customers may need to tell their browser that it’s safe, first.
