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"You're playing it wrong." This frequently uttered pedantic phrase tends to draw my ire as it suggests a myopic view that your way of enjoying a game is the correct way of enjoying it. Fun isn't fun unless it's your kind of fun, amirite? But with Ludosity's experimental iOS game Progress to 100 I was playing it wrong and yet I still had a bloody good time with it.So what cardinal sin did I commit embarking on this peculiar puzzler? Simple: I played it alone. Progress is technically a single-player game, but that's not where it thrives. While a single user could brute force their way through Progress' 100 puzzles, that'd be missing the point. It's more challenging sorting all its brainteasers yourself - and in turn more rewarding - but it's less charming. Progress is a game designed to make you look like an idiot, making full use of the device's gyroscopic sensor, mic, camera, touchscreen and more. And looking like an idiot to an audience of no one is missing out on some delightful embarrassment.
Only it's not embarrassing if everyone looks equally ridiculous - and they no doubt would playing Progress. Its 100 puzzles task players with solving a series of cryptic clues using each and every function of a phone. A prompt for "learn to walk" will require you to alternate tapping two fingers across the screen, emulating the pitter-patter of feet. "Look left" should be rather self-explanatory, and before you know it you'll hear the playful pixie of a narrator tell you "Touch the screen with your nose."
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