For anyone who liked "VVVVVV," or for any masochist with a sense of humor, I humbly present "Vuess Vow Vong Vo Vold Vown Vhe Vey."

It's a 1D game: you hold down a key to fill up a progress bar. The challenge is that the progress bar stops filling if the key isn't in the right position. Sometimes you must hold it down, and sometimes you must let it up.

It's natural then to wonder when to hold down the key. And that I can't tell you; you have to vuess when hold it down.

I made the original version of this game in 2011. It's a parody of my most extreme experiences playing "VVVVVV." It was the first game I made all by myself from fundamentals.

Before I wrote the Haskell program for "Peoplemon," I wasn't sure that the programming techniques I wanted to use would really work. I tested them by re-implementing "Vuess" in Haskell, and they turned out to work surprisingly well. This was a key moment of inspiration for making "Peoplemon" a reality.

The game is a joke, it can be nakedly aggravating, and it uses the "troll face" that people have gotten in trouble for using commercially. But even now I still chuckle at it, I'm proud of its technical merits, and the music is a lot of fun.

For these reasons, it's available to download absolutely free on macOS, Windows, and GNU/Linux. Please check it out!