At least he learned more about limousines that way. But to explore limousines is profane! What now? Should he tell them he shrinks from trumpets? Or he avoids chanting? Too much information for poor robot…and off he went to robot jail. Yes, try to avoid robot jail. That’s about the only thing you can easily state in that game.

Soon the strangers make their way to the planet ruler, an unsightly creature. With an evil grin (at least as far as our two interstellar friends remember), he asks them: “Have you met my children yet? Hahahaha!”

Jan Willem Nijman and Jonathan Barbosa Dijkstra have built a nice little tale here that is bound to teach you some things about yourself, about humanity, and, above all, about the butt-ugly word shmup.

Eventually, its developers decided to rely on human genius: They released the software as a puzzle solving game, and now thousands of people can invent new proteins, enzymes or antibodies that could – one day – cure diseases, help decompose toxic waste or dissolve carbon dioxide. And you really want to go on playing Tetris?

To successfully mine the candy, you have to rotate the candy orb, so your candy mining projectiles will hit only the best and tastiest candy – but beware, don’t try to mine it all at once by hitting the core of the candy orb – horrible things will ensue!

Now, to keep you happily mining along, Gregory Weir has crafted a level mode in which you meet a good natured miner, a candy-hating duchess and, finally, a general who instructs you in the war for your nation’s most important natural resources: Candy.

Now it is up to you to help the mayor make the new Minneapolis landmark work properly. Can you toast these slices golden brown without burning them? Are you up to the waffle-making task? Can you rescue the bagels? And are you man enough to face the pop tarts?

There is only one way to find out. Get the Town Hall Toaster ready and feed the hungry taxpayers.

The story outline: An association of environmental activists, calling themselves THOC (”The Heat Of Change”), invites the leaders of the G7 countries (with Russia left out!) to a conference where they should discuss the global warming issue. Once those seven gentlemen get there, THOC pump sleeping gas into the conference room, kidnap all seven of them and put them on a steadily melting ice floe in the arctic, equipped with nothing but some bags of salt that came with their last meal, to battle it out – because they are all held responsible for this very melting ice floe that could now be the end of them! The one to survive this battle to the freeze will then be in charge of the fight against global warming, assuming he has learned his lesson.

Definitely pioneering work in the field of constructivist eco-propaganda games, and at the same time a hot-seat battle for up to seven leaders of the world!