048per_houseboatbuilding

Recessionary times: boat builders as house builders?

178col_CUBIC PLATFORMS: FROM ALBERTI TO Q*BERT

Q*bert is an isometric platform game with puzzle elements where the player controls the titular protagonist from a third-person perspective. Q*bert starts each game at the top of an isometric pyramid of cubes, and moves by jumping diagonally from cube to cube. Landing on a cube causes it to change color, and changing every cube to the target color allows the player to progress to the next stage. In later stages, each cube must be hit multiple times to reach the target color. In addition, cubes will change color every time Q*bert lands on them, instead of remaining on the target color once they reach it. Jumping off the pyramid results in the character’s death…

000off_London 2012

London 2012: Official sponsor of Golds Per Capita!