Organ Trail

Most of you know and have probably played the 70's adventure game Oregon Trail. For those who do not know the player assumes the role of a colonial who was to lead their covered wagon and his party of settlers from Missouri, to Oregon over the Oregon Trail in 1848. Even though it was released in 1971, due to the popularity of the game, there have been remakes for all kind of platforms including IOS smartphones, Android, Facebook and it is now availabe for Nintendo 3DS and Wii.
For those who have not played you can play the original game online here, it only requires a plugin and it is even recommended in their blog of their own website.
For those who have played and loved Oregon Trail, the zombie parody is here: Organ Trail. Copying the style of the first Oregon Trail, the recreated the game on a apocaplsis future where you have to take care over you and your friends against a Zombie horde.

It is entertaining and extremely fun, especially if you played the original Oregon Trail. A piece of art for the nostalgic retro gamers. You can purchase it in Steam for about 5€, available for Windows, Mac and Linux. A must play.

Kerbal Space Program

Many of you probably have not heard of Kerbal Space Program, I honestly did not know either, but a really good friend of mine is now addicted to this game, and he goes on and on about this game all the time, so I wanted to try it. 

I downloaded the demo in Steam, and started to play it as soon as I could. The idea of the game is to send rockets and go out in missions to outerspace. Or at least that is what I think, cause I must say I was not able to play that much. At least in the demo, the game does not offer any kind of tutorial, and I was so confused, I really did not know what we were supposed to do. I just spent like 30 minutes clicking on types of rocket parts, with no idea what to do.

I just felt like Penny from "The Big Bang Theory", I just think I am too stupid for this game. I mean, I trust my friend and I am sure it is a lot of fun, but I just did not find it. They should do a tutorial or a version for people like me, cause I even looked on the Internet to see what we had to do and still nothing.


Feel free to check it out, you can see an awesome fan-made trailer here:

I wanted to show you too, the present I gave my friend for his birthday, I made a super cute Kerbal astronaut out of Hama beads. It looks so cute. Here you can see a picture he took of his little Kerbal friend in his orion ceiling. I found the pattern here.

Videogame review: Braid

Normally I only play point and click adventures and although I have played hours of Mario, I am not that keen on platform adventures, but I got totally hooked up on Braid. Created by Jonathan Blow was first made for platform X-box Live and was after made compatible for Windows, Mac and Linux. 

The gameplay is in a way similar to Mario, our main character (Tim) goes through different worlds to try and find his princess, but keeps discovering that his princess is in another castle. 

The difference to Mario is that you have to get pieces of puzzles to keep on moving on your game and that you cannot die. That is right, you cannot die. One of the special features of this game is that you control time; every time you die you can reverse time and bring yourself back to life. In each world you can control time in a different way and you have to be ingenious enough to solve of the puzzles. They are not difficult, you just have to think a bit, and you get really proud of yourself when you finally figure out how to get the pieces of the puzzle.
The story is not a straight forward as Mario either, even though it is a platform game it has a really complex story to it. It tries to explore the complexity of the human mind. At first you are told that the main character is going after her princess to rescue her, but as you keep playing the story starts to get more and more ambiguous. 

Not only the gameplay is amazing and the story catchy, but the original art design (that reminds a little bit of Van Gogh) and the beautiful soundtrack, make this videogame a little masterpiece.
You can buy it in Steam for 8,99€ and you won't regret it.  

Here you can see the trailer:

I wanted to recommend too, a contemporany dance version of the game. Using the original soundtrack of Braid, The Chaparral High School Alumni Theatre's did this awesome dance of the story which can be watched both normal and in reverse. I found it really good, cause it sticks to the moral of the story of Braid: that everything depends in how you look at it.

Here you can see the first part of the normal version, but I recommend watching both the normal and the reversed, I thought it was genius: