Like Tremors, Less Kevin Bacon

August 6, 2010 2:19 PM

Friday Flash Fun: Worm Food places you in control of a giant human-devouring worm of legend. Devour villagers, defile monuments and destroy settlements.

Worm Food bears resemblance to the classic homebrew, Death Worm.

posted by uri (17 comments total)

OK, I was crap at it, but that was actually quite fun in a kind of sixty hundred dentures into Kevin Bacon kind of way.
posted by Elmore at 2:31 PM on August 6, 2010

seriously? one comment and I'm beaten to the kevin bacon joke?
posted by shmegegge at 2:37 PM on August 6, 2010

Don't look at the title, shmegegge.
posted by knave at 2:39 PM on August 6, 2010

Fun!
posted by adamdschneider at 2:43 PM on August 6, 2010

But see, amid the mimic rout
     A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
     The scenic solitude!
It writhes!- it writhes!- with mortal pangs
     The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
     In human gore imbued.

Out- out are the lights- out all!
     And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
     Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
     Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
     And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
posted by maqsarian at 3:26 PM on August 6, 2010 [3 favorites]

I want to sink a town into the earth, just by burrowing away the ground beneath it.

Now that would be wormsign, the likes of which even God has never seen.
posted by maqsarian at 4:01 PM on August 6, 2010

And I am in the last third of Dune (for . . what . . the 20th time). How fortuitous.
posted by Seamus at 4:21 PM on August 6, 2010

It loaded. It gave me an ad about how congress is racking up debt by passing a healthcare law. And then it loaded again.

Still, the game has to be worth it with that description...
posted by mccarty.tim at 7:02 PM on August 6, 2010

Great minds think alike, maqsarian. Maybe a game with a greater processing requirement could pull it off.

All this digging makes me want to play SimAnt. Where's the 3D remake of that gem?
posted by mccarty.tim at 7:11 PM on August 6, 2010

Frustrating to control, great concept.
posted by artlung at 7:23 PM on August 6, 2010

Man, I loved SimAnt. Why didn't that game make a bigger impact?
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 7:33 PM on August 6, 2010

Come to think of it, I was under 10 when I played SimAnt, but I had recently seen the Magic School Bus book on bees, so hive insects were cool to me. But I think I'd still enjoy it for a few more hours. This calls for a flash game remake.
posted by mccarty.tim at 8:02 PM on August 6, 2010

Come to think of it, we need a SimAnt MMO.
posted by mccarty.tim at 8:04 PM on August 6, 2010

"OMG, queens are imba"
posted by sonic meat machine at 8:13 PM on August 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oh, SimAnt.

'Better dead than red!'
posted by shakespeherian at 10:25 PM on August 6, 2010

Couldn't get it to jump high enough to kill the villagers on the bridge.

(Also, if someone could add a "game" tag on this to make it easier to find in the future when I want to come back to it…)
posted by klangklangston at 11:20 AM on August 7, 2010

Frustrating 8th(?) level, but scarfing down sky raiders was very satisfying.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 2:59 PM on August 7, 2010