Browser Game: Manifold
In spite of what you may think, I do not in fact spend my days sipping drinks on a rooftop lounge in front a laptop, scouring the intertubes for news to bring you, my Geeks of Week. No, I like many of you, am bound by the shackles of commerce and have the detestable misfortune of having a day job. At this day job, again, like many of you, I am constantly tasked with finding new ways to distract myself and accomplish as little as possible, thus ensuring the vicious cycle of corporate life is complete.
Occasionally I accomplish this by pounding my keyboard in a furious rage over the latest Halo 3 news, at which point Furniss steps in to make my writing intelligible. However, more often than not I can be found sitting at my desk, an Excel spreadsheet open for plausible deniability, shirking my duties and playing a browser game. Most of the time these games are easily forgettable and I hold no special reverence for them, sometimes though I find a game that just tickles me in ways indescribable. Manifold is just such a game. It's short, pretty, doesn't make an obscene amount of noise, and engages me to the point of distraction so that I can forget about the time I'm wasting furthering someone else's goals.
Manifold provides you the opportunity to hurl gravity defying orbs at walls, with which to propel yourself (a strange alien silhouette) over a bevy of obstacles. Each time you die (which I did numerous times figuring out just how high I could launch myself) you're simply deposited back at the last level you were playing with a change in the soothing background hue. This is simply a fun time-wasting opportunity, and I demand you play it immediately.
Manifold via Game | Life
