A Man and his Penguin

The local Ubuntu repository mirror is down at the moment, but the rest are probably up, so here’s a game you might like to try.

It’s called Monster Masher. Anyone who has played Bubble Trouble on the Mac will know the basic idea: It’s a top-down view arcade-style game where you have to squash monsters in between these big movable boulders.

The differences are:

1. You can only move the blocks one space at a time
2. You can push multiple blocks
3. You can PULL a single block at a time as well
4. You must squash the monsters in between two boulders - pushing one into them has no effect unless there’s another boulder on the other side.
5. You can’t dissolve any blocks.
6. There’s none of the cool music and humour, no powerups, and the graphics are very simple

But these differences make the game harder and more interesting, where you try to build structures where the monsters will hopefully go into, and you get into a position where you can squash them, without creating a dead-end where you can be trapped.

There’s a two-player mode too, which I haven’t tried yet. Could be fun, let me know how it goes!

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