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Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Shortest Path Between Two Points Is Instant Death

Posted by on Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:37 AM

Impasse is a sleek, lovely time-killer with instructions that could fit into a tweet:

Impasse is a minimalist puzzle game. Discover the rules as you go and make your way to the goal of each level.

Well, okay then! Saying much more would be spoiling the joy of discovery, but we will say that it leverages its fairly small portion of frustration to create a compelling series of puzzles. Abstract, but not austere. Block out an hour and figure shit out.

This is you.
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The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.

 

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Got Bridge after about a dozen times. Certainly takes some interesting visual and thinking skills; I wonder if it could be used to test some sort of brain function.
Posted by Drew2u on July 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM
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I've breezed through most of it and then gotten stuck for 45 minutes on a couple of levels. damn you slog, i will not quit! if the progress at the bottom is correct, I have 2 levels to go.
Posted by Frank Rizzo on July 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM

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