"Heaven is a half-pipe," sang OPM, exposing the spiritual naivety of the rap-rock movement--we all know there are no skateboards in any afterlife. Untethered from the dust, they become grappling hooks. Everything a skateboard longs to be and to do finds its ultimate expression, its true form, in the video game grappling hook. And I'm not just ragging on skateboards because of all the wounds I received trying to learn to skate last summer.
Tom Francis proved himself an appreciator of graceful arcs with his leaping-on-men simulator Gunpoint, and now he too has been visited by visions of this perfect form. Yesterday he released Floating Point, a lovely little grappling hook game which I suspect is a spiritual expression, created in praise or penance, as he's giving it away for free. Grab it from Steam.
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