Right now I am probing cautiously at a tower of sausages occupying the centre of a little grassy patch of land. I have been doing variations of this all morning because I am stuck on the second island of Stephen’s Sausage Roll [official site].

You’ve probably heard sausage chat on the sausage vine over the last week as Stephen Lavelle’s meaty tile-based puzzler has garnered praise from the likes of Jonathan Blow (him off The Witness and Braid) and Bennett Foddy (QWOP, GIRP). It’s worthy praise from what I’ve experienced so far but given that’s only two islands of puzzling and I can see whole other sections tantalisingly close on the edge of my overworld map I’m going to talk about the puzzling process so far.

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English Country Tune and PuzzleScript developer Stephen ‘increpare’ Lavelle today released his latest block-pushing puzzler, Stephen’s Sausage Roll [official site]. It’s a push ‘em up about rolling sausages around to cook them properly under increasingly tricky circumstances. He’s also the Stephen ‘increpare’ Lavelle who’s released squillions of fascinating free games like Subway Adventure and Slave of God, of course, but strewth, don’t go thinking his fondness for vignettes means his puzzles aren’t fiendish/delightful/bastard-hard.

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