Sam and I have been playing a lot of Indie ga...

May 28, 2009 by Adam in Adam's Games

Sam and I have been playing a lot of Indie games lately. I ended up getting Plants versus Zombies for free in a drawing, which is an excellent game. The main quest is fun, but then there's endless little mini-games and puzzles that are equally entertaining. Over the weekend, the kids and I made Plants versus Zombie figurines out of Sculpey.

As a prize for memorizing his multiplication tables, Sam got the game Braid. It's an indie game involving changing the flow of time, with lots of tricky puzzles. At one point last night, Sam couldn't figure out a puzzle, so I googled "Braid walkthrough" and found the official Braid walkthrough. It's from the developer and it basically said, "Don't use a walkthrough - keep trying."

We did just that and figured out the issue. Suddenly that intense frustration switched to a happy feeling of our intellectual prowess. Games are funny that way.