Fun for Hippies

So, while we were on-location working on Chalice this last week, The Donut Boys neglected my contract and decided not to provide me with at least one console or even a competent PC. They did, however, lend me Mickey C's nearly useless iBook G4 laptop. Let him know what a waste of space it is for me later. Right now, I wanted to share with you this free online game I found with it in my downtime.

Music Catch is an independant game made by some company called Reflexive. It's a flash-based game, so you can run it on just about any web browser. The screen's completely black, except for your cursor, at the beginning of the game. Then, from the blackness, green shapes start flying out, and you're supposed to catch them with your cursor. I'm not sure if I'm just tone-deaf, but I didn't notice any correlation between what I was catching and the music that was playing. Anyway, the music's pretty soothing, and the game's kind of fun. When the yellow shapes come out, you want to try to catch them, too, to get a multiplier and a bigger cursor. The more yellow shapes you catch without accidentally catching one of the evil red shapes, the larger your cursor will get, and the bigger your multiplier. Red shapes are nasty, though, they'll cut down your multiplier and your cursor size by about half every time.

So, if you're ever bored, away from modern conviences like a good ol' PS3, or too poor to get a copy of a real game, go check out Music Catch. It's good for at least 5 minutes worth of free entertainment.

I've managed 815,588 points. What's your best? Comment below.

EDIT: Yeah, that score was done on a crappy Mac laptop. I got back home from the set today and decided to see how much easier the game was with a real mouse. I can now proudly say my high score is 2,006,804. Beat that, kiddies.