New Game Of The Day - Don't Feed The Trolls (No 22)

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New Game Of The Day - Don't Feed The Trolls (No 22)

What? A new XBLA Indie game with hungry bears. And trolls.

When? NOW!

Where? Xbox Live. Here.

Although we’ve probably played dozens of games like Don’t Feed The Trolls, not one actually springs to mind at this moment in time. Rubbish, eh? We’re blaming lack of sleep. And age. Anyway, the concept here is simple: score points by feeding the hungry bears as they pop up on the screen, but feed the trolls that also pop up and you’ll lose points. It’s a reaction-test, finger-eye coordination type of game, with the bears and trolls popping up in four sections of the screen that correspond to each face button on your pad, and you just tap the relevant button as and when.

You can also slap the trolls for extra points. Guess what happens if you accidentally slap the bears? As you work your way through the levels, different and tricksier types of bear and troll appear, offering more points when correctly fed/slapped. And that’s about your lot. Simple? Yes. Also: effective.

You’re unlikely to give it more than a few tries if you’re not connected to Xbox Live but it does have that addictive je ne sais quoi quality and it’s only 80 measely points. However, there are online leaderboards and we’d wager once you get the bear-feeding, troll-slapping bug then you’ll happily devote a few hours to climbing the rankings tables. What’s not to like?

Don’t Feed The Trolls was released on Xbox Live last week but it feels a little unfair to be dishing out a review score to something that costs less than half a pint of cooking lager, so let’s just say we give it the thumbs up. Here’s the trailer, and you can also nab a timed demo version from Xbox Live.

Developer legacy: Frozax Games is one man, a certain Francois Guibert. Froxax have developed four games internally, including balls-and-bricks physics-based puzzler Spring Up Harmony, which received favourable reviews and is also available on Xbox Live indie games for 80 points. 

They say: “If I hated it I could have made so many awful jokes, like... “I know I get accused of TROLLing but this is ridiculous.”” indiegamerchick.com

We say: “But you did just make that awful joke - you're out of conTROLL!!1!!!” [You're fired - Ed]

Can’t wait? Play this: Well we'd be mean if we didn't recommend having a stab at Frozax's previous XBLA indie game, Spring Up Harmony.

Website: www.frozax.com

Facebook: facebook.com/frozax

Twitter: twitter.com/Frozax



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