Windowframe has you solving puzzles by resizing the game’s window
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
Every four months there is an event called Ludum Dare, where participants try to make a complete game from scratch in 48 hours, based on a particular theme. It’s a difficult task for a group, let alone a single person, to get a game to a finished state in that amount of time. Often the best games from these jams tend to be a distillation of a specific game mechanic, plot point, or idea. Windowframe, made by Daniel Linssen during the 35th Ludum Dare in 2015, is a great example of this, focusing on one very specific and…