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September 23, 2004 10:24 PM

Reverse (Friday Flash Frustration Fun).
posted by LinusMines (22 comments total)

Is it bad if I just turned my mouse upside down? It was pretty easy that way.
posted by addyct at 10:55 PM on September 23, 2004

I just finished level five, and I'm already starting to get used to it. Pretty cool, though.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 11:21 PM on September 23, 2004

Pretty easy game. Nothing moves as far as I can tell.

Or I can't figure out how to make anything move.

But while nothing moves, my cursor operates normally.
posted by obfusciatrist at 11:21 PM on September 23, 2004

Was kinda fun. Would be crazy-good if there was a timer.
posted by dobbs at 11:22 PM on September 23, 2004

addyct: Yes, that just means the challenge is now hitting the Next Level button.
posted by fvw at 11:45 PM on September 23, 2004

I must have ran into the wall about 5 times before I realized I was controlling things. I guess we all need to be taken down a notch every now and again.
posted by FissionChips at 11:45 PM on September 23, 2004

Interesting. Kind of reminds me of getting back from a narrowboat holiday. After a week of pulling the tiller left to go right, when you get back in the car you get an alarmingly strong urge to turn the steering wheel in the wrong direction...
posted by TheophileEscargot at 12:07 AM on September 24, 2004

Is it bad if I just turned my mouse upside down? It was pretty easy that way.

It's even easier to right click and select "Play" in the Flash plugin until the level advances.
posted by Krrrlson at 1:24 AM on September 24, 2004

I didn't have any problems until Level 7 - there I couldn't get my trackball to move fast enough across the screen to pass the moving blocks without hitting the wall.
posted by Tenuki at 1:59 AM on September 24, 2004

Level 18 is haaaard.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:39 AM on September 24, 2004

Level 1 is hard with a wheel mouse that doesn't work well.
posted by kenko at 7:43 AM on September 24, 2004

By "wheel mouse" I mean one with a rolling sphere for movement ... I don't actually know what they're called.
posted by kenko at 7:44 AM on September 24, 2004

Doing it the way the good lord intended, I realized how much my mouse here at work is true ass.

Cute game, though. Simple idea, well done.
posted by chicobangs at 7:52 AM on September 24, 2004

I can't even do 18 right side up!!
posted by psychotic_venom at 8:04 AM on September 24, 2004

Oh, and speaking of reversed. I noticed that Opera 7.51 did a weird thing to this page. It reverses it about halfway down (screen capture).
posted by psychotic_venom at 8:10 AM on September 24, 2004

Yay! I successfully completed the game! All those years in Photoshop have truly paid off!

Now where's my money?
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:33 AM on September 24, 2004

level 18 was pretty friggin killer.

but i mean, after 10 or 12 it was less having to do with things being reversed and much more to do with getting a pixellated square down a passage that is only 3 pixels wider. it's just plain hard, but has nothing to do with the gimmick.

and that makes me annoyed.
posted by taumeson at 8:35 AM on September 24, 2004

It's frustrating in the way games are supposed to be, but what I found most irritating was that if I lifted my hand to readjust it, that was enough motion to send the square into the wall.

Level 14 and I quit. Fun game, though.
posted by rocketman at 9:14 AM on September 24, 2004

You bastard.
posted by petebest at 10:18 AM on September 24, 2004

psychotic_venom: Works for me, opera 7.23 on linux. Probably some unicode decoding problem, as it contained some text in a scripts that should be displayed right-to-left.
posted by fvw at 2:34 PM on September 24, 2004

Great game, with the parts I played anyway (up to level 10 - after losing that one around 25 times I decided to declare victory once I made it) having doubtlessly elegant simple coding. But yeah, if you don't have the optimum mouse setup (which I don't right now), you're punished exponentially.
posted by soyjoy at 8:23 PM on September 24, 2004

i'm sorta amazed at how quickly we can adapt to doing it completely backwards...as long as you don't think about it. if i just watched the curser and thought where i wanted ti to go i would do 10 times better then if i actually tried to THINK about hwere it should go and what direction i therefore needed to press....very thoughtful for a flash game

great link
posted by NGnerd at 10:23 PM on September 24, 2004