Sean James McKenzie is a head honcho-type over at Armor Video games, but additionally is a long-time developer underneath his personal label Bacon and Video games. Many moons in the past, or quite about 8 years in the past in keeping with Sean’s tweet, he collaborated with artist Ajay Karat and composer Randy Heidema to create a Flash recreation known as Lazy Thief. Rules and morals apart, we’d all like to steal some shiny jewels, no? However do any of us actually wish to, like, rise up and bodily transfer to take action? No. No we don’t. That’s the premise behind the aptly titled Lazy Thief. This thief has found that he can steal a bunch of oh-so-shiny coloured gems simply by chucking stuff at them. What meaning in a sensible gameplay sense is it is a physics puzzler the place you will need to lob varied sorts of objects to trigger every gem to fall into its same-colored objective space, the place it will likely be whisked proper over to your lazy butt. Right here is the unique trailer for the Flash model of Lazy Thief.
It’s a intelligent and humorous setup for a puzzle recreation that’s backed up by a enjoyable physics system. Issues transfer a lot faster than in one thing like Offended Birds, and there’s even some components of Lower the Rope as typically you’ll have to toss ninja stars to sever the ropes which can be hanging gems within the air. No, it’s in all probability not going to redefine video video games as we all know them, however Lazy Thief is actually good at scratching the itch for anyone who remembers the extra easy 3-star physics puzzlers from the early days of the App Retailer. What actually pushed this one to a different degree for me personally is that 3-star system. The primary star is earned just by accumulating all of the gems, and the second star is for attaining an inexpensive par variety of objects thrown to take action.
That third star although is the “Skilled” star and it requires you to beat a degree by throwing the least quantity of objects attainable, and oftentimes only one object solely. That is fascinating to me as a result of there are some ranges the place it appeared this simply isn’t attainable, however tons of retries and getting the physics engine to behave “simply so” has confirmed me incorrect time and time once more. Simply enjoying by means of and beating the 50 ranges in Lazy Thief is an efficient time, however making an attempt to determine learn how to snag that third star in each degree provides an entire different layer for puzzle recreation aficionados. That you may restart a puzzle instantaneously makes it straightforward to strive a very tough degree again and again dozens and dozens of instances, maybe with out even noticing. However when you lastly nail it… man that may be a feeling.
The explanation I’m speaking about all that is that Lazy Thief the Flash recreation would have been misplaced to time when Flash was lastly put to relaxation on the finish of 2020. Nonetheless, Sean McKenzie notes that “A really sort soul” by the identify of Antony Lavelle put within the effort and time to port Lazy Thief to Mac, Home windows, iOS, and Android. You possibly can obtain the sport from the Bacon and Video games Itch.io web page, with the desktop variations being fully free and ad-free however accepting donations for anybody to point out their appreciation. The iOS and Android variations are ad-supported with an IAP to take away these adverts, although plainly IAP isn’t fairly stay within the precise app simply but. I even have but to see an advert, so perhaps these simply aren’t stay but both. Both manner it is a feel-good story and it has allowed me to expertise a recreation I by no means would have in any other case, so in case you’re a fan of puzzlers of a sure classic don’t hesitate to take a look at Lazy Thief for your self proper now.
