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University of Malta's Institute of Digital Games professor Pippin Barr has a knack for making very simple, very funny games that often provide quirky twists on conventional game design. Just take his unwinnable browser-based retelling of greek myths, Ancient Greek Punishment, for example. Now Barr has taken to parodying the indie scene by creating a host of free curios riffing off the latest scrappy charmers to penetrate the cultural zeitgeist in his Mumble Indie Bungle.
Available on PC and Mac, the "Bungle" contains the following free titles: 30 Flights of Loathing, Gurney, Spy Parity, Proteas and World of Glue. Players can purchase the sixth's title, Carp Life, for any amount of money that isn't nothing.
Each game is less a parody of its namesake than a hilariously literal rendition of its stupid joke title, which somehow makes it funnier. "The idea for the collection, in keeping with the titles, is that it's meant to be this set of crappy indie games that someone perhaps bought for you, mistaking them for the originals," said Barr on his blog. "The challenge for me, then, is to make the game that fits the title, and that is also somehow 'wrong' and would fit into this odd, misshapen bundle."
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Available on PC and Mac, the "Bungle" contains the following free titles: 30 Flights of Loathing, Gurney, Spy Parity, Proteas and World of Glue. Players can purchase the sixth's title, Carp Life, for any amount of money that isn't nothing.
Each game is less a parody of its namesake than a hilariously literal rendition of its stupid joke title, which somehow makes it funnier. "The idea for the collection, in keeping with the titles, is that it's meant to be this set of crappy indie games that someone perhaps bought for you, mistaking them for the originals," said Barr on his blog. "The challenge for me, then, is to make the game that fits the title, and that is also somehow 'wrong' and would fit into this odd, misshapen bundle."
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