[Logic platformer]SHIFT

SHIFT is a game where you are a test subject. This game looks like a classic platformer... Before you press shift.
What happens? So... You shift!

Good luck and enjoy shifting!
PS.Oh, and there is a level editor.

I've seen this before, pretty cool

I liked the game but I think there are too many games using/ripping off Portal's player-as-test-subject conceit. (Which Portal probably got from somewhere else anyway.)

I liked the game but I think there are too many games using/ripping off Portal's player-as-test-subject conceit. (Which Portal probably got from somewhere else anyway.)

So true.
Personally, I think they're doing themselves the most harm, since that just makes people compare their games to Portal. And there's no way they're gonna win that competition.

But I do like this game. It's done quite well. I just wish it was longer.

My opinion is pretty much what has already been said. The concept is cool, indeed, but it's too short.

yet another game/series that i've played but forgotten to post about 

I liked the game but I think there are too many games using/ripping off Portal's player-as-test-subject conceit. (Which Portal probably got from somewhere else anyway.)

Well, they aren't really ripping off portal with that. Any game can be about a test subject.
Its just the "now you're thinking with shifting", "the timer is a lie", and the ending that they are ripping off.

And the concept of numbered rooms. (I mean numbered in-game, not like y'know levels which are numbered.)

I like shift 3 the best, but the concepts in shift 4 were cool.

I like shift 3 the best, but the concepts in shift 4 were cool.

/agree

Shift 4 ruined it with the countdown timer.

Since when is Portal the first game to use the player-as-test-subject concept? 

Since when is Portal the first game to use the player-as-test-subject concept? 

I liked the game but I think there are too many games using/ripping off Portal's player-as-test-subject conceit. (Which Portal probably got from somewhere else anyway.)

In any case, Portal popularized it.

Shift 4 ruined it with the countdown timer.

The timer is fake. THE COUNTDOWN TIMER IS A LIE

Since when is Portal the first game to use the player-as-test-subject concept?  

portal invented the concept of "playing along", you finding out about other test subjects, then they try to kill you and then you escape and run away and then... yeah. I won't ruin everything.

Quote from: minmay on July 13, 2009, 01:35:13

Since when is Portal the first game to use the player-as-test-subject concept? 

portal invented the concept of "playing along", you finding out about other test subjects, then they try to kill you and then you escape and run away and then... yeah. I won't ruin everything.

If you don't want to, use spoilers. That purpose is where the names come from. [spoiler]