Not more than 10 minutes ago my cousin, who shall remain nameless, sent me a link to a video through google talk, stating simply: “Now that’s a game.”

The video was taking forever to load due to someone stealing my internetz, so I asked him what the gist of the video was. “It’s an adventure game thats all sketch drawn with really good music,” he wrote.

I respond: “Is it The Fancy Pants Adventure?”

“Yes.”

“Played it. It’s on GGE.”

“WHAT?! SHOW NOW! IT’S #$!*&%# JAPANESE HOW DID YOU GET IT?”

Needless to say, my cuz suddenly got very excited about the Great Games Experiment, especially after I told him that he could just click a button to play The Fancy Pants Adventure in his browser.

The best/most frustrating part is, I sent my cousin a beta invite to the site months ago. It took this long for him to get why I was excited about the site. He’s a hardcore gamer, so I thought he wouldn’t be that hard to convince. Turns out I just needed to find out how to flip his switch. GGE offers so much, sometimes to much to take in. Find that one little switch though, and the lightbulb goes off.

I think I’ll start calling this “The Fancy Pants Factor.” Every gamer can find something GGE offers that illuminates that lightbulb above their head, just as my cousin did. Eventually.

So what did it for you? What was your “Fancy Pants Factor?”

Cheers,
Dylan