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Kloonigames Vs. The Amazing Flying Brothers

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Pretty much every freeware PC game that Petri Purho makes over at Kloonigames is worth covering, and following the much-drooled over Crayon Physics, he's now debuted The Amazing Flying Brothers, in which logically enough, "...You play as the infamous flying brothers as they try to perform the flying trapeze act."

Interestingly, this is a basically a one-button game (though it uses the mouse button as well), and as Petri explains: "Only left mouse button is needed. Click it to release your grip. Try to aim for the other swing. Hold left mouse button down to accelerate or to slow down. If you press down, when going down you’ll accelerate. If you press down when going up, you’ll slow down."

Some good comments, both positive and negative, from 'Graham J' in the comments: "The ridiculous bonuses were great as usual. I realize you want to shy away from this, but I love it, in any game. Rolling bonuses have always made me happy.... Too many times I felt like I “almost made it”. Obviously, falling is a big part of this game, but I’d say 1 out of 2 falls, I felt like I planned the jump right, and JUST MISSED. Perhaps if there was a slight gravity towards the beams, or something? Or if he had longer arms?" Whatever the case, for $0, this is a good deal.

Comments

Happy holidays!

Nice games too :)

Am I the only person who didn't "get" Crayon Physics? The only solutions I could come up with to any of the puzzles involved throwing the ball by messing with collision bugs...

I owe you guys multiple thanks for blogging about my games. I read GameSetWatch daily, so it's always a nice surprise to see my own game here, even though it's always old news to me :)

@RavenWorks: No you're not the only person who didn't get Crayon Physics. I'm also having a hard time figuring out why it's so popular. I mean all you do in that game is try to find collision bugs, and to me that's not fun.

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