## Description
_Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade_ , is an action-puzzle casual videogame
for the Apple iPad.
One of its most distinguishing traits is that the game solely takes place on
the wooden desk of an old, befuddled British taxonomist. On his desk, lies a
fantastic book: a bestiary populated by impossible, finely drawn animals. Not
unlike all the monsters of myths and folklores, Gua-Le-Ni’s impossible beasts
are combinations of parts of real animals. To understand what I mean, it might
help to think of fantastic creatures like the sphinx, the Minotaur, different
chimeras or even South Park’s Manbearpig.
Such animal parts can vary from two to four animal parts. Each animal part,
either a head or a body part, is reproduced on a taxonomic cube that can be
rotated, flipped and moved until it matches the corresponding part of the
passing animal. The goal of the game is precisely that of reconstructing the
animals before they reach the end of the page-screen and disappear. When a
match between the paper beast and the beast represented on the upper faces of
the taxonomic cubes is accomplished, points are scored.
Different game modes are present in the game’s fantastic bestiary, some of
which are purely focusing on mnemonic tasks, on action mechanics such as
feeding and optimized manipulation of the taxonomic cubes.
Gua-Le-Ni, or: The Horrendous Parade