The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

Found this little point-and-click gem via Australian Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI)’s Best of the Independent Games Festival Exhibition 2007. Not sure why I’m suddenly into Flash games and point-n-click adventures recently, but I guess it’s probably the lack of time for full fledged games these days:(

Samorost 2 (Winner for Best Web Browser Game, Nominee for Excellence in Visual Art at The 9th Annual IGF) was designed by Czech design studio Amanita Design and can be played for free (Chapter I at least) on the official site at samorost2.net.

In this game, a space gnome (which looks nothing like the common gnome as far as I know) must travel to another planet to rescue his pet dog from its alien abductors. The scenes in the game look like be a mixture of heavily-edited real-life photos melded seamlessly with fantastic illustrations, which makes the places in the game look like a fantasy version of a real place (not sure I’m making any sense here…)

Some screen captures from the game.

One of the earliest tasks you must complete

One of the final screens – this one almost drove me nuts

The whole game should take you at most one hour with its array of well-designed and logical puzzles – none are too tricky (most solutions require only a few correct clicks in any sequence) except for one scenario where I had to align three wheels which got me stuck for a good 10 minutes (see below)

I still haven’t figured a logical explanation for the solution to this puzzle yet

At the end of first chapter, our space gnome and his dog are involuntarily drawn into another 5 level adventure, which can be downloaded for 6.90 USD.