1 post tagged “stickmen”

Stickmen are the staple of online games these days, it seems.  So many of the games I've found and played have revolved around blasting stick figures that I can't help but wonder if it's a sign of some strange, programmer pathology.

Probably not; it's more likely a sign of stickmen being relatively easy to animate.  In any case, stickmen are the usual badguy in a whole heck of a lot of bash 'em up, smash 'em up, crash 'em up, and shoot 'em up games, and they usually find morbidly amusing ways to die.  And as usual, I am going to tell you about one of these games.

The premise is simple: the stickmen are tired of getting bashed, smashed, crashed, and shot, and have rebelled.  They are on the march, out of your computer, and across your desk, to the window, where they will launch themselves into open warfare with the human race.  And you must defend the world, with the simple items on your desk.

Your defenders are the sort of common desktop things that everyone has: staplers, pens, paperclips, calculators, cell phones and the like.  These little guardians are armed, or course, and are more than willing to shoot stickmen on behalf in defense of the Earth.

I'll admit, the stickmen in this game don't die with any particular special effects (poof! and their gone), but there are a lot of them, and they keep on coming in wave after wave.  For every stickman that your defenders kill, you receive a bounty of gold; you can use the cold you collect to buy upgrades for your troops.  Make sure that you take adavantage of the upgrades, or you'll never be able to keep up with the stickmen; they get stronger as the game goes on.

I think I'll stop here; if I tell you any more, I can spoil the game.  It's not hard to figure out, so go ahead and play, and if you want, leave a comment when you discover the winning strategy.