Okay, this is impressive. Longtime favorite retro Flash game site Nitrome (pronounced NIGHT-rome) has released a game that confused me at first, but now has me profoundly impressed. Gunbrick looks like an tile icon that will take you to the page of their latest high-quality, free flash game — have I mentioned that I like this site? — but when you click on it, you’re confronted with a “Play” icon. Clicking that will begin the world’s tiniest platform game… right there within the 50×50 pixel icon tile.
As you’d expect, story is nil: you’re a brick, you shoot lasers, you get through the level, what do you want for a re-invention of mini-gaming? Take a minute to go to their site and check it out. If you want, you can even expand the game to a larger window, but that really doesn’t enhance the experience.
I love the creativity that goes into something like this. There’s nothing like a little “why do we have to have it bigger than a tile” -type thinking to make you feel a better about the internet, just a little bit. Maybe fifty pixels’ worth.