This game is surprisingly good: at first I groaned (yet another Tetris clone), but it admits some kinda interesting strategy: you want to configure your skyline so it's easy to slide pieces around. Combos are a bit too hard though -- there's not that much interesting stuff to do in the game. The abstract game is somewhat fun, but the controls on this version are a pain: I think with a control pad it could work much better. And yes, easy mode is droolingly easy.

Someone should really do a version of this on cell phones: it's a well-paced and simple pit game (the game idea might be older than this -- there's so many Tetris-type games...).

Nils, I am actually surprised you liked NaiveTown! At first, I too thought oh dear... another Tetris clone. But giving it a chance revealed something about the gameplay that was not immediately apparent. A pleasant surprise.

Pretty fun once you get the hang of it, but no pause feature. From time to time, I like to leave the keyboard without having to start the game over.

the link has changed slightly, to: http://www.naive.it/games/naivetown/naivetown.htm

Thanks, Laura. I've updated the links above.

I just tried to play this game, but was unable to download a file required to play it. I got a message saying the file wasn't available for download....??

I'm currently getting a "403 Forbidden" message when I click on the link. Is it just me?

shostie, i'm gettin the same as well..

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