Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week Steve is still moving house, so Alice Bee is covering for him again by playing SlipSlop, a very simple but horrible platformer.
Developer: 0taste
Publisher: 0taste
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: Freeeeeeee!
When I was little, I used to eat cubes of jelly. As in, pre-diluted. You know how Hartley s jelly came in oblong packets, and your mum would open it and out flopped the cubes of jelly, like a chocolate bar gone wrong or a future dystopian food supplement. I would sneak one of the cubes away and gnaw on it behind a sofa cushion, like an actual rat. They were the purest form of the jelly! Why bother waiting?
And now I suspect that jelly is a sentient whole, like mushrooms are, and knew what was happening every time I removed a cube and diverted it away from its ultimate purpose of becoming jelly, and bided its time. And now revenge is upon me in the form of a free platformer.