''Tasha's Game'' is a free Adobe Flash puzzle-platform game by

Klint Honeychurch Klint Honeychurch is an American graphic designer, video game designer, programmer, and writer. He designed Double Fine's free Adobe Flash games: the graphic adventure '' Host Master and the Conquest of Humor'', sports game parody '' My Game Abou ...

, with art by

Tasha Harris Tasha Sounart (née Wedeen, formerly Harris) is an American animator, artist, video game designer, and writer. She was the designer of Double Fine's adventure RPG ''Costume Quest''. She is currently an Associate Creative Director of Theme Parks ...

and music by Bert Chang and

Razmig Mavlian Razmig Mavlian is an Armenian-Canadian artist, animator, video game developer, and musician. His nickname "Raz" was the inspiration for the name of the main character in ''Psychonauts''. He currently is a concept artist at Oculus VR. Career Raz ...

. The game was published by

Double Fine Productions Double Fine Productions, Inc. is an American First-party developer, first-party video game developer of Xbox Game Studios based in San Francisco, California. Founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer shortly after his departure from LucasArts, Double ...

, and was originally playable on their website.

Gameplay

Both the plot and art of ''Tasha's Game'' directly follow '' Tasha's Comic'', the webcomic by Tasha Harris which was hosted at Double Fine's website when she worked there, and is now continued on her personal blog. The gameplay combines platform game and puzzle game mechanics in a way similar to '' Lucidity'', although the main character in Tasha's Game is directly controllable. The game's main character is Tasha herself (as in her comics), and her cat Snoopy acts as the game's cursor. The object of the game is to free various members of the Double Fine team, and of Tasha's family, by running and jumping across obstacles as well as using various power-ups collected along the way. The power-ups comprise the puzzle half of the gameplay, and are deployed at various locations where Tasha can jump on them to let her access parts of the level that can't be accessed otherwise.

Reception

''Tasha's Game'' was nominated for "Best of Casual Gameplay 2008" in the platform browser games category from Jay is Games. The International House of Mojo declared the game "easily better than ''

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''".

References

External links

* {{Double Fine Productions 2008 video games Browser games Puzzle-platformers Side-scrolling video games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Razmig Mavlian Double Fine games Flash games