Sephy’s Platzish

A while ago, I talked about a game called Within A Deep Forest. As it did happen to be, the author of that particular exploration game has authored a couple more games. They’re related to each other, but the goal of one is different to the goal of the other.

Knytt

Knytt is a simple game where you control a little character who can make a lot of varied moves, including climbing up and down walls. He can also have some special actions if you find the codes; they make the game more challenging, but somewhat easier as well.

The basic story of the game is that you have been abducted from your planet and taken to another planet in a broken spaceship. To get home, you have to find the pieces of the ship and get it back together. There are a lot of areas to explore, and if you just go around finding the pieces, you miss out on a lot of the experience. It’s a great game, and one definitely worth checking out - it’s also not the hardest game out there

Knytt Stories

This is an offshoot of the first game, Knytt Stories is focused on someone who may be related to Knytt called Juni. In this game, you have a variety of different stories to play around with. The goal to the game is to complete the story that is set out in the beginning of the game. However, Juni doesn’t have the skillset of Knytt; you have to search out the power-ups for her.

You can download a whole bunch of add on levels for the game, but even just the included level is both challenging and has excellent music in it. This is one of those games that is perfect for a break when you need to have one.

If you need help with the first story of Knytt Stories - The Machine - you can check out the series of videos that starts with this one, done by a fellow who calls himself Deceased Crab - he’s the same dude who did the walkthrough of Within A Deep Forest.

This is what you get when you start browsing random Flickr streams - I was browsing a stream (from, apparently, the founder of del.icio.us - he had some screenshots of when they first started). I did some more surfing and found this picture of a program called “Within a Deep Forest.”

I’d not heard of it and kind of assumed that it’d be one of those try to buy games, but as it turns out, it’s a piece of freeware!

It’s a puzzle game where you are playing the role of a bouncy ball and have to clear a bunch of stages. It’s a very good game, and one that really makes you think (well, at least until you find someone on youtube who posted a video walkthrough of the game ;))

Although it is very addictive, if you know what you’re doing or have found the videos, it does go by very quickly. If you’re up for a challenge, it’s a very small program that leaves no junk on your system, so feel free to delete it when you’re done with it.

(Oh, did I mention that there’s a program included called Secret Levels.exe? I haven’t seen that yet, but I’m sure it’s a good deal.)