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While trying to track down a particular game for a project I have in mind, I found this from Finnish developer Petri Purho - but the site has gone down. For one year Petro a grand plan: to create games in 7 days (12 in a year) and it produced one of the simplest and most beautiful games I’ve ever seen - Crayon Physics Deluxe - reminiscent of the complex mousetrap like drawings some of us drew as kids.

Petro’s tenet that all games should be made “within a 7-day limit, Ö. made by me alone and test some new form of gameplay” might not be everyone’s cup of salmiakki but it seems to have produced some fantastic results, earned him the respect of his peers and got him nominated for numerous awards - I just wish I could find the games now!

Jaarko Laine did a short interview with Petri Purho in 2007 which gives more detail but the relevant links from there are dead now. Pixelrage a download link, but as I’m Mac based, I’ll have to wait till I’m back in the studio and can borrow a PC to have a go.

Oh well, I’ll have to make do with the highly addictive flash games at the Science Museum’s Launchball site, part of thier Launchpad section, and made by the folks at Preloaded