The state of web-based gaming seems to fluctuate from the creative to the overly monotonous.
Surprisingly enough, a majority of web-based games are played by middle-aged women likely because many resemble classic puzzle titles with approachable controls.
I stumbled on a unique web-based game and 2010 Webby award-winner for best game called Record Tripping by independent game designers and brothers John and Dan Bell.
Like all good web-based games, Record Tripping isn't hard to understand and doesn't take up much of your time. All you need is your mouse with a scroll wheel.
The basic premise circles around manipulating different objects around the principle of reversing, speeding-up and slowing down a "record." A brief tutorial shows players how easily each task is done. Holding down the left-button on the mouse will slow the record, scrolling up speeds-up in the record and scrolling down slows it down. That's it!
The audio for our record is a narration of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's 1895 children's tale "Alice in Wonderland." However, the player's manipulation of the audio is coupled with a different songs in a contemporary music selection for of the game's five levels. The sound of record scratches gives the player a sense of manipulating your own mixed person of songs by the Gorillaz, Spoon and Death Cab for Cutie while in the process of playing the game.
Each level presents a new challenge using the same principle and controls described in the tutorial, but in different ways. You'll manipulate the wind, a clock or a safe combination in the same way you scratch the game's tutorial vinyl record. The game's creative scenarios are reminiscent of game such as the time-altering and award-winning Braid for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
The game's presentation is well polished to makes for an enjoyable (and free) experience.
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