Fugdale’s Funhouse

Object: Capture the dots by drawing shapes around them.

Review: Alex Heaton, who brought us Balls!, brings us another fun game involving enemy balls. In Trap Draw, players must eliminate the various dots floating about the screen, by drawing a continuous path around them enclosing them inside. If any dot touches an unfinished path, you will lose health in your health meter. To help out, you can trigger explosives with your Shift Key, which grow larger depending on how long you hold down the key and how much energy you have in your explosives meter. Explosives should be reserved for the stronger or faster enemies.

In order to draw lines you must choose between using the mouse or the arrow keys by clicking the appropriate button at the bottom of the screen. I found the mouse is a little easier to control. Click the space bar to start drawing. You will find a bit of a drag when drawing and the controls do take a little getting used to. You can’t just simply enclose a dot with an unbroken line, you must connect the line to the point your started drawing it. This gets tricky when you have many enemies floating around. The dots come in varieties, some disappear, others splinter off into multiple dots when you capture them. A few other surprises come along as well.

You will get bonus health and explosives as you play and you need to merely touch them with your cursor to retrieve them. The game is fun, but the drawing mechanism doesn’t feel as responsive as it should and like many drawing games of this type, it will either frustrate you to no end or light a fire of determination under your butt. Either way it’s good for a few plays at least and might even become some people’s new favorite. Let me know what you think of it.