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Flashbang Studios, purveyors of weird and creators of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus, have released a new game. It's called Time Donkey, it was made in eight weeks, and you can play it, absolutely free, at Blurst, Flashbang's own gaming portal.

It's a 3D platformer/puzzler about a donkey that likes to eat tacos and break things. If that wasn't cool enough, perhaps you missed the fact that it's called Time Donkey.

There's a trailer after the break that will illustrate how Time Donkey works, but here's the gist in a few sentences: Time Donkey is your basic 3D platformer at first glance -- you control a donkey, you break things, you snack on tacos. The only problem is that the eponymous donk' is "trapped in the very fabric of time itself, doomed to relive the same 30 seconds again and again."

In a move reminiscent of Majora's Mask and Braid, Donkey can rewind time at the touch of the button while "ghosts" of previous playthroughs go about their business. The trick, however, is that present-Donkey can interact with past-Donkey in order to snack on more tacos and, presumably, figure out how to get back to his normal life, in which he works in a fast-food restaurant.

I haven't played Time Donkey yet, but even if it sucks, I don't care. Jesus Christ, it's called Time Donkey.

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Gavin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/02/2009 23:55
Gavin
FUCKING STOP IT WITH THESE GODDAMN VIDS THAT AREN'T VIDS AND ARE INSTEAD LINKS TO DIFFERENT PAGE.

So fucking lame and so fucking pointless. It really is a shitty thing to do. What the fuck do you think the point of embedded video links is in the first place? If you don't want to clog up the main page with flash content loading just place it in the rest of the post type thing.

Man, I never click on that shit anymore because it is just that fucking annoying. Stop it now.
CBunn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2009 00:01
CBunn
Death to fake video buttons!
Gelatin Abomination's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2009 00:03
Gelatin Abomination
I don't know. Is it really any different than having to hit the jump to see a video? It doesn't bug me that much. Besides, I like the new video page. It's easy to get around in.
Electro Lemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2009 00:16
Electro Lemon
I've got to agree with the past three commenters (but in a less abrasive way, I guess.) I know a lot of work went into that video page, but it's a bit annoying to have to click on a photo to see the related video. The video page looks good though, and like Gelatin Abomination said, it's not much more different than hitting the jump, save for the story being on a different page. At least the video's embedded in this post, even if it is just because it's from Vimeo.

Also, Flashbang's Time Donkey on Blurst? That sounds like a sentence made up for a gaming webcomic that's supposed to make fun of gamers. What I'm trying to say is it's awesome.
Gavin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2009 00:18
Gavin
Yeah, it is different. If you click on the rest of the post after the jump you can see the comments on the post and the video all in one page. With the separate page you have to click on the fake vid, go to the other page and then if you want to see what other people think you have to hit back and then click on the rest of the post. Too many fucking hoops to jump through and again, just fucking pointless. Stop it already. I'm guessing they are doing it to increase the number of pages created by the site which in turn results in more ADs for the site...but anyone who isn't an idiot is using adblock anyway so it is an exercise in futility.
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2009 10:19
welkstar
Is this the first game starring a Donkey as the main character?
HOLY TACO's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2009 20:10
HOLY TACO
Man this looks pretty bad...
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