Pug’s Place

Oh man, I just stumbled upon the coolest side-scroller ever. It’s called Gish, and in it you are a blob of tar. It’s so simple, but the game is so fluid and you can do so many incredibly awesome things.
Download the demo RIGHT NOW no matter what OS you’re using. It’s just, whoa.
Let me give you an idea — you can shift your weight (aka, move, except that you can also compress and extend your blobby self), become sticky, become heavy and jump. That’s all the buttons you have, except that when you’re sticky you can climb surfaces *AND* carry surfaces with you (act like a tire!), when you’re heavy you can crush enemies, sink in water, or add additional oomph to blocks you want to destroy… OR if you’re hanging from something, you can pull it down! It seems like everything I think of to try works! Damn it’s cool.

Sadly I have a minor performance problem (lag) here in linux, but if I figure that out I’ll probably buy the whole thing. This game is just nifty. Katie, Theresa — you in particular need to try this game!