This Little Piggy Free download

EditByBSEditor: The maze-Fruits are ripe and this Little piggy wants to fill her belly. the big bad wolf wants to fill her belly too, and she wants a meal she has to catch. player one is this little piggy, and wins by collecting all the fruit in the maze. player two is the big bad wolf, and wins by collecting this little piggy. this game is for two players only!

i find it a little worrying that the trend in videogames over the past thirty years has been increasingly toward the solitary, single-player experience. we take for granted that characters in a game - often the majority of the cast - will be played by “the computer.” this little piggy is a “monsterless game” - a term i coined in conversation with eric-jon rossel waugh in lucky juju pinball museum - a game all of whose actors are controlled by human players.

one of the difficulties in multiplayer game design is that the platforms designed with more than one player in mind - “consoles” - have corporate gatekeepers, and the platform easiest for the largest number of people to design and code for - the home computer - isn’t designed for the playing of games. having multiple people play a game together on the same computer usually means a bunch of hands crowded on the same, too-small keyboard.

in Snake Heart Apple, i mitigated the issue by having one player use the keyboard and the other the mouse. in this little piggy, both players have similiar controls to the point of actually sharing a button. pressing the Spacebar changes the layout of the maze - switching Between the blue and green paths - and either player may hit it at any time. after it’s hit, the bar at the bottom of the screen must fill before it can be used again.

Requirements: No special requirements