RPS says it’s awesome, and the buzz on Twitter has been pretty strong. And rightly so.
The kart is a compilation of 300+ indie micro games launched by Mike Meyer and friends. The kart started as a way to enter the IGF awards for hobbyist game designers, but it sort of became an event in itself.
That’s 1.4 GB of data, and a nice menu to sort them out ! Some of them are downright terrible, not even games. Some are pretty fun for a few seconds. Some are rather good, or even excellent. Don’t expect highly polished finished products, though, most of the titles are experimental in nature, rough on the edges, sometimes gross.
A few highlights are Terry Cavanagh’s (the excellent VVVVVV) games like Graveyard, Graveyard Revolution, Bento Smile’s absurd action RPG Quest, Mike Meyer’s devilish platformer 1,2,3…
But it’s just great to try a game at random, wonder what the heck is going on, try to understand it or just move along… It feels like some sort of twisted indie Wario Ware.
Yes, they were inspired by the pirate carts (100-Games-In-One, full of dire clones or just plain broken games) from the eighties. The form factor is the best thing : I wouldn’t have tried those games if I had to manually download them one by one, but the whole package makes it easy to try a lot of things. If that doesn’t stick, I 've only lost a few seconds.
