The three games I played for the Video Game lab were This Is The Only Level, Canabalt, and Wizard Wizard. These three games, despite all being platformers, are all incredibly different games. On one hand we have This Is The Only Level, which, as its name suggests, has only one level. The catch is that it has multiple stages, where there are various small tweaks that make the game still interesting despite having only one level. Canabalt, on the other hand, is very different, the gameplay is only jumping while your character continuously runs to the right, away from some unseen threat. Unlike This Is The Only Level, Canabalt has very little variety, but it still gets players to keep playing by making them want to beat their previous distance.
Wizard Wizard, also a platformer, is also unique from the other two. It could be considered the exact opposite of This Is The Only Level, as the way it stay interesting is by having many levels that the player can traverse.
I watched my partner play both This Is The Only Level as well as Canabalt, and those were also very different experiences. This Is The Only Level was hard to watch without trying to give my partner advice, and it made me want to try the solutions I thought of myself instead of just watching, whereas Canabalt wasn't very different to watch than it was to play.
