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asanori's Temple Run (iPd)
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| [December 14, 2012 04:33:00 AM]
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This game utilizes the iPod’s ability to sense its orientation to control a man running through a maze. The touchscreen is also an integral part of the controls; the player swipes a finger to duck, jump, and turn left and right. The goal is to achieve a high score of distance from the temple by avoiding obstacles and outrunning a pack of baboon-thingies.
The level design in this game is beautifully simple and allows the player to turn off their brain and get into that “zone”, like Tetris; endless mazes of jumping and collecting coins make for a mindless and fun experience. Collecting coins is part of resource management; you can buy powerups like speed and invincibility in an in-game store. Players get onto a leaderboard in the app that compares the distance that was run before falling victim to either the baboons or the obstacles.
Normally, I consider a good storyline an integral part of a game. But this game story is just one sentence: you stole a gold idol from a temple, so run away as fast as you can. It gets the point of the game across in just a few words, which is absolutely brilliant. The game is challenging, but simple and clean. The tutorial in the beginning explained the controls, but the real teachable moments were more subtle: the environment in this game involves visual repetition. All of the tree trunk obstacles look the same, all of the fire bars look the same, etc. This trains a player to recognize when to duck and jump, so that the responses by the player start to become easier on him/her.
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asanori's Temple Run (iPd)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Thursday 13 December, 2012
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