Ferry Halim’s High Delivery combines explorational aspects with a medieval memento mori message. Its graphics style is really reminiscent of impressionist paintings. You play as a fan. There is a bottle, tied to a balloon, and with your fan you change the direction of the balloon, so the bottle can collect flowers. Your balloon goes higher and higher, your bottle fills with roses by the dozen, and finally you have arrived.

You delivered 66 roses. Try again.

In la pâte à son, rhythm comes naturally. All you have to do is set up your incredible pipe dream on the watercolored chessboard and let things happen. It is almost like an exploration game without moving – you explore how the melodies from your two strange devices concide, how abstract and complex a form you can build and still enjoy, only to hit the mean red button and thrash it all again if you went in the wrong direction.

At this, you could really call it an impressionist sound and game experience – there is no challenge other than to stretch your imagination and create beautiful melodies. If you want to go by the official definition, this is a non-game.

David Rees however hits the office world at its soft spot: business presentations. He took the clip arts from productivity enhancing management pamphlets and created My new filing technique is unstoppable . Fight the file cabinet from 1992 with your more or less productive young man from 1990! Collect business ammo, and fend off the Henderson, Eagleson, Masterson and Anderson files while listening to funky muzak!

Oh, and by the way: This was released as a promotional game to David Rees’ book My new filing technique is unstoppable. Just so you know.