It’s that time of the week, friday! I’m pleased to announce a new weekly feature which will appear every friday, Friday Diversion! Look forward to the best ways to waste your time, games, and random websites to burn your time. What? You say that friday isn’t the time to be playing games? Leave. Now.

Today’s diversion is a free game called Teeworlds. It’s a 2D online shooting game. Teeworlds iconTheir tagline? “Cute little buggers with guns.” It’s basicaly “Kirby with guns,” but that has copyright issues. Duh.

Teeworlds is still in beta, with 0.4.2 being the most current release. Your character in Teeworlds looks like Kirby (though different color schemes and skins are available.) You’re weapons? A hammer (hmm…), a pistol, a shotgun, a rocket launcher, and laser. Needless to say, it gets hectic.

With up to 12 players, and multiple options of play including deathmatch, capture the flag, and team deathmatch, it will keep you occupied for hours. Maybe it’s the cuteness factor. Or it could be the irony of kirby with guns.

The graphics are good, though the controls are a bit less than intuative on a laptop. It’s a fast paced game, each character can double jump and then use their chain, a tool which is a bit like the hookshot from Zelda, to pull themselves up. Or attach to another Tee, and then brutally beat them to death with the hammer while the victim is unable to escape.

The weapons have great balancing - a player with a hammer is more than a match for a rochet launcher, if used correctly. Then again, the rochet launcher could beat him. Custom maps are supported.

To play, download the latest version for your OS, extract, and run the Teeworlds.exe in the the created folder. You don’t have to install anything.