Twinbeard
twinbeard.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Twinbeard is a small game developer's site hosting Flash-era games such as Frog Fractions and Futilitris, with notes on modernizing them.
What HN saysHN commenters link it to point people to Frog Fractions and Futilitris, calling the latter an entertaining Tetris clone with a twist that needs Flash.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Frog Fractions10 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 2Futilitris3 people · 93 points · first shared 2013 · 30 comments on HN
- 3I Modernized My Flash Game3 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4Desert Hike EX1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 5140 futilitris1 people · first shared 2018
What HN people wrote when they linked it
CGamesPlay · 2018-05-16
Frog Fractions [1] had a great history of boxing in narration form. Video form is here [2].
[1] http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIlTJIJS8p0
danbolt · 2021-05-06
Are you familiar with Twinbeard's Futiltris? You'll need Flash to play it these days, but I always found it really entertaining.
[0] http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab62aohgpKI
blktiger · 2018-12-18
If you haven't, be sure to check out Futilitris[1]. A tetris clone with a twist.
[1] http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris.html
reificator · 2018-07-02
Death is of no consequence in that game though, so I wouldn't consider it a roguelike.
The mechanics are more important than the graphics when categorizing roguelikes IMO.
That said, it is pretty fun. The original is even better though: http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
LambdaComplex · 2018-05-15
Frog Fractions? http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
Edit: Just replayed it to that point. It's not talking about chess boxing, just (a very incorrect history of) normal boxing.
hellbanner · 2015-03-22
If you want to learn about fractions: http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions
VonGuard · 2014-04-10
This is the same guy that did Frog Fractions, which if you haven't played it, is one of the most surprising games ever made about amphibians and scientific notation. http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions
hnal943 · 2014-03-26
If fractions are your thing, you should be playing Frog Fractions.
http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions
arsey · 2013-03-18
joining in with the Tetris variants: Futilitris http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris
ashark · 2015-02-01
You haven't seen the work of thecatamites, have you?
http://harmonyzone.org
Search on Rock Paper Shotgun for reviews. Or just dig in. If there's anyone else out there consistently cranking out this much weirdness in game form, I'm not aware of them.
Also Frog Fractions, which is... certainly surprising, anyway. Read nothing about it if you haven't played it already. Just GO.
http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions
My GOTY for the year for 2012. I'm not kidding. It's so meta though that I'm not sure it's quite what you mean by weird.
Lots of games in the "weird twist on X" category. Horse Master, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hotline Miami... huh, that's lots of words starting with H. Tons of others. Lots of games messing with classic concepts/mechanics in new ways.
http://noncanon.com/HorseMaster.html
http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/english.html
http://www.hotlinemiami.com
Hammerfight's weird in the way you mean, I think. Steam link because the official site is really bad. So's the game, really, though the art and concept carry it for quite a while.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/
Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving, Atom Zombie Smasher, and Gravity Bone are all this sort of weird. I can't speak for their other games only because I haven't played them, but they're likely weird too.
http://blendogames.com
There are more. Free stuff tends to be the weirdest. Poke around in Rock Paper Shotgun's archives for articles about free games and you'll find…