In the 2009 wrap up post, or any other app release summary, this has to get the best of its genre. Please don't forget to include it. Bear Driving Sims ftw.
I would love to wear an Enviro-Bear shirt! That would be additional PURE EPIC WIN!!! GO, ENVIRO-BEAR, GO! TO THE TOP OF THE 100's PAID APP LIST! GO, GO, GO!
Hahahahaha rofl I just saw socal spongers review on iTunes. Hahahahaha! Nice one it's just as random as this game lol
you know, Picasso always found something to appreciate in every piece of art he saw. In his words, "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child". I don't think you can deny that there is something very full-circle about this game with the current trend of progressively more polished game. I wouldn't call Justin a Picasso by any means, but there is definitely something cultishly pleasing about his app
Oddly, it is polished it its own particular ways, but they are ways that don't show on the surface. It is sort of the anti-big budget game and a statement about games that are all show and no go. And also, it's a bear driving a car and eating fish and getting fat. I mean, isn't that something we can all identify with? Or, as Wheeler Page so aptly put it in his review: "Enviro-Bear is an interactive experience that challenges long-held conventions of the genre, while at the same time being itself a powerful deconstruction of the human experience and indeed the process of creation criticism itself. The game's deliberately "limited" control scheme, "poorly" rendered graphical representations and "absurd" premise ask the inter-actor to reassess his/her conception of what a "good" or "meaningful" experience can be. At the same time, like the best post-ironic work, Enviro-Bear 2010: Operation Hibernation plays with not only the signs, signifiers, and the signified themselves, but also with the very idea of the meaninglessness of sign-culture and in fact semiotics itself. The bear, the car, the fish, and the badger all demand to exist as things-in-themselves, connected to their own world by a dream-logic, but divorced from the world of the ludographer her/himself. Are we not all the bear, having slept our whole lives and in the Fall desperately only seeking to sleep once more? Do we not fumble with about with one hand to direct the cradle of technology, using it as a blunt instrument for the most base of our desires? Is this not beautiful? Enviro-Bear 2010: Operation Hibernation cannot answer this question and would not dare attempt it, but perhaps you can." Truly, Enviro-Bear brings out the best and equally valid metaphors and parallels to life itself depending on the viewer's interpretation -- as good art must.
Attention! Alert! Slide To Play have written a scathing account of our beloved Enviro-Bear: http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/cheap-shot-enviro-bear-2010 After I finished my zen meditation to bring my heart rate down to acceptable levels, I fired off a comment defending our ursine hero. I would urge all Enviro-Bear loving enthusiasts to do the same. They will never know what hit them! Gnaw at them like an angry badger!
Lambast not Andrew Podolski, but pity him, for his soul hath no joy. Weep for him, for a life without Enviro-Bear is empty and devoid of meaning. And fish. :: picks up a syllable :: Here. I think you dropped this.
Enviro-bear made it to the "What's Hot" section in the app store game section! Now it's unstoppable. edit: My bad, it wasn't the games section. It's in the main app store section!
No, Westbang, Enviro-Bear, Harbor Master, and Earth vs Moon are all great games. Usually they feature wacky crap under What's Hot on the front page.
Wow. This just got featured in the App Store's "What's Hot" section. Seems like someone at Apple has got a sense of humor. haha I never would have expected this game to be anything more than just a laugh. This is madness. (I know what's coming next so might as well prepare for it xD)
