I like the lack of panels/layout in this - reminds me particularly of Kabuki, though there are other comics that do that sort of thing.  In terms of light - blue and yellow are opposites, which will probably never stop amusing me.  I wonder if this is referencing that as the shadows are blue and the highlights are yellow…

I’d seen passage before (I think it was on DC), but never played it. So I just went through it a few times, and yeah, it’s really well-done. As I was playing through it, I kept thinking about the design and was amazed by how well it all fit together.

I went to check if Cave Story had already come out for WiiWare (fantastic news, but not yet there unfortunately) and discovered that Super Mario RPG, one of my two favorite SNES RPGs that made a big impression on me when I was young and playing games with Brian Klein in the Poconos (the other being Earthbound, my favorite game ever, though not on Wii yet), had come out for Virtual Console. Needless to say, I’m playing it right now.

One game I found, either on Dinosaur Comics or Kottke (I can’t remember) is Passage. Passage is less about being fun and more about being art. Play it through first (it can take five minutes or a lifetime), then read the artist’s statement. It has binaries for Windows and OSX, UNIX source, and plays fine in Wine.

Also, I was never able to get ROM CHECK FAIL working, maybe I’ll try again.