Something Awful’s Tub Adventure
I take it back, what I meant to say when I denied that Sid Meier was the Merchant Ivory of video games, is that Shmorky is the actual Merchant Ivory of video games.
I was going to link the awesome new Flash Tub directly into our hallowed, greeny-pink halls, but I figured it would be more polite to direct the clicks their way.
At right is a screen from Something Awful continuing feature, the Flash Tub, in which Shmorky n' friends showcase their oddly skillful flash creations. Simply titled "Tub Adventure", this rollicking point-and-click romp takes you through a challenging empty room, marriage to a fat lady, and into a plesiosaur's vagina for a five-star dining experience. It was loosely based on a novel that Florian wrote about our first date, which has been described as both "synaesthetic" and "coprophilic".
This may not be the best Flash Tub to demonstrate this, but my favorite thing about the series was hard to put my finger on until my good friend Sizzlepig pointed it out yesterday: Flash Tub is created with actual animated drawings, as opposed to the simple moving shapes used in most flash cartooning.
That, my little airborne simians, is raw class. Next time someone tells you video games are artless drivel, you sit them down for a nice game of Tub Adventure.
Tub Adventure [Something Awful]
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