Free Friday: A Twist on Portal Puzzles and Free Games Inspired By Peter Molyneux

06.04.2012
The big story in free games this week is undoubtedly l, a competition to create games in 48 hours based on the tweets of . @PeterMolyduex is a twitter account that parodies the pronouncements of game designer Peter Molyneux (creator of games such as Black & White and Fable), known for his insistence that game designers need to think outside the box and create new ways of playing games.

Molydeux amps this up to 11, creating game idea tweets that are as hilarious as they are ridiculous. A quick example game idea from this week: "Game in which you transfer from body to body of people stuck in lifts all over the world, forever in time." But the tweets, while absurd, sometimes have a sublime brilliance to them and thus after a suggestion on Twitter that designers actually make some of these games the Molyjam was born.

While it's an odd origin story for a boatload of free games the results are sometimes inspired. We've picked three games we think you might like but the full collection of games is available .

Based on the tweet "What if the pause button was a weapon? Until developers think outside the box we're going downhill" this is a punishing platform game that's quickly impossible unless you know the trick: your character keeps his momentum whenever you pause, so if you jump and pause the game you'll keep flying upward. You'll need to keep pausing and unpausing to survive the game.