I want to play my Icycle

By now you've probably overheard the game-o-sphere bubbling with delight over Damp Gnat's flash game Icycle. If you couldn't tell from the screen-shot, this is a beautifully executed and amusing game about the sole (and nude) survivor of the Earth's next ice age, navigating the lonely world on a tiny bicycle. Yeah. You should play it.

Three quick side notes:

1. The main character design and the way the game zooms in-and-out of scale vaguely reminds me of the movie Twice Upon a Time. Let me know if you've seen it, I haven't met many who have.
2. It's rare that I play a game where I get all giddy about the sound effects. Crackling frozen floors and a creaky bicycle sliding through echoing ice age terrain is a relatively unexplored combination of sounds, but it works really well.
3. This game is frustrating, but really great.

Thanks Steph, for the recommendation ^^

Comments

[rae]

the 7th level is killing me!

[john]

I'm intrigued but

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /icycle on this server.

[Nathan]

I found this through BlitBlit.com I absolutely love it. I'm stuck in the 6th level, actually, it's the screen you captured that I'm stuck in.

[Nathan]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2120572902430934061#

I found Twice Upon A Time on google videos.

in case any of you were disappointed it's not on netflix.

[.tiff]

You gotta use the floaty gravity mechanism to wave through the obstacles! Took me a while to get it, just be gentle how you maneuver your buddy around the rocks.

Have you seen Twice Upon A Time? The last time I actually watched it was on google videos, since it's literally impossible to find anywhere else...

[Garth Webb]

I finally got through Icycle! Its funny, after finishing I was able to go back and get 100% of the bubbles on the first 4 levels pretty quickly.

[.tiff]

Oh, how sad :{

[AJ of Stilton Studios...]

Thanks for the nice comments on the sound! AJ of Stilton Studios..

[.tiff]

Didn't know that Stilton Studios was responsible for the sound! Well done!