In December 06, the Becherovka Game 2006 competition results were announced. I myself was one of the judges, so I played all the 25 entries. In Becherovka Game, the point is to make an advertising game for a famous liquere company from Karlovy Vary. There are various categories like action, adventure or simulation games. Each year, there are dozens of nice freeware games. This year, the winner of the whole competition was a nice adventure/RPG Moribund World: Like A Thousand Suns, which could be described as a Quest for Glory in the world of Fallout. But we at Hrej! liked more the winner of the action category: BugAbOO.
BugAbOO was made in Macromedia Flash and it's a pretty simple game. It's 2D, side-platformer. The player is supposed to jump over enemies or shoot them with a sling (and there are nice ballistics in the game). BugAbOO is not a revolution in the terms of the system and the core of the gameplay. The story and the overall atmosphere of the game is what makes it a hit.
BugAbOO is about a group of children which gets imprisoned in the nightmare world of awful fairy tales, where they have to deal with evil toys - Teddy bears with prolapsed bellies, clown figurines flying high on their strings, dolls with bouncing heads and insane expression in their faces... It's very tim-burtonesque - and there's a very little amount of Becherovka propagation in the whole game, which I take as a positive. The graphics are maybe the strongest part of BugAbOO - they're stylish, detailed and the parallax scrolling in the levels is just excellent.
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