Friday, August 11, 2006

It's JUST a game

I was browsing the Big Fish games site one night, looking for some mindless little game to play, since it's been a while since I've finished Mystic Inn and I was ready for some clicking. I stumbled on an amusing little game called "Teddy Bear Factory". I thought, oh, how CUTE, just like the Build a Bear workshop, right? Oh, yes, it started innocently enough. A conveyer belt, with blue, green and pink teddy bear parts on it, and you have to click and drag the individual parts to complete a cuddly teddy and hand it to the waiting child. How sweet! The kids came in, put in their order and you complete the teddy and give it to them. The teddys you complete and are not the right colour get boxed up and shipped out, but they also count towards your completion of the level. Awwww. There are little perks like "rainbow bear" parts that fit any other colour bear, and magnets that make the conveyer belt go backwards or go very slowly for a few seconds. However, if the teddy parts reach the end of the belt, they ALL turn into popcorn and you get demoted and lose the level. I did very well, made it all the way up to President of the Teddy Bear factory, SUCCESS, at last... But alas, I've only completed a third of the levels... But... I'm at the top, what could POSSIBLY go wrong? HA! Famous last words. I found it's a slippery slide from the top... If you don't make the right colour bears on time, the kids lose patience and leave, weeping... And the teddy parts are coming in, faster then ever. Now there are PURPLE parts! And, deviously, you get all but one arm of the pink teddy together, and then, for the next ten parts, there are NO PINK ARMS! What the hell happened to the pink arms???? No, not a leg, not a right arm... not a belly... A LEFT ARM! Oh, quick, another kid wants a green one, there, I got all the... wait... where is a green right leg???? Ok, let's start on a blue one then, OK, got that one off, OH SHOOOT the kid gave up and now I put the blue one in the box, just as another kid ALSO wanting a blue bear appears. And the left pink arm comes JUST after the kid leaves, weeping. F*&^. OK, let's just concentrate on putting these little beasts together quickly, just to finish the level, regardless of the lineup of stupid kids. Why can't they wait just a bit longer for those freakin' bears, anyway! And, why do these things have to have that STUPID grin on their faces? Don't they realize they are about to turn into popcorn, dammit? Oh, NOOOOOO. All is lost... I've been demoted, AGAIN, and I'm an apprentice... well, just try this level again... I'll be quicker this time, outsmart these horrid little creatures. But they keep coming! Faster and faster! I'm out of magnets! There are NO MORE rainbow parts.... SHIT! I've been FIRED! ME, the former PRESIDENT of the company! The humiliation! The shame! Where is my golden parachute! Just you wait! I'll come back and start over... With a vengeance. No pink teddy bear will stand in my way! I will be at the top once again!!!! Oh... yeah, yeah... of course, it's just a stupid game.. right.. OK.. I'm better now.. Clicking the quite button... ahhhh. I can breathe.

2 Comments:

Blogger jeopardygirl said...

I downloaded the trial version and played for the hour was alloted. It was okay. I liked Cake Mania better. Speaking of which, the secret to winning the Casino ones is to leave at least two stacks of money on the counter--you have lots of time for customers to arrive, so, if you leave money, you'll only have to serve two or three at a time, which is very manageable.

10:16 AM

 
Blogger RC said...

whew!! Definitly sounds like a scary and sad game.

At least the children don't explode if they get teddy bears made with hazardest parts.

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

2:51 PM

 

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