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Posted on Friday, July 29 @ 20:56:30 Eastern by
Wondering what you can win in the 101st Haiku Fridays contest? Check out the E3 trailer for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet below:


I've been playing ITSP for GameRevolution's review. How is it? Mmmmm, good. It's good. I can't say anymore though! You'll have to wait for Monday. Consequently, that's also the day we'll be announcing our winner! If Bastion and From Dust are any impression of next week's Summer of Arcade release, you're in for a treat.

Here's the deal: You have to write a haiku using any ONE of the following words: Insanely, Twisted, Shadow, or Planet. How you use those words is up to you. The words surrounding those words is up to you as well. Really, we're not about to inhibit your creativity. We want to see what you can come up with!

tl;dr


Write a haiku using Insanely, Twisted, Shadow, or Planet.
Place it conveniently in the comments.
Tune back in on Monday where we'll announce whether a winner is you or not!

GO!


Comments
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
    Twisted eyes may see
    Sun burns planets in envy.
    Stars have no shadows.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
    Insanely? Twisted?
    Which to use in my Haiku?
    Shadow? or Planet?
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
    LAZINESS!

    not spam
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 1:22 am
    LAZINESS! You cry.
    For that I spit my Haiku.
    Sloth, it is not true!

    Haiku to write now
    Insanely I have to work
    Must prove you a jerk!

    Twisted is my face
    Grimaced with my disgrace
    Shirker I am not!

    Angelic words say
    From shadow of shame be freed
    Sloth ‘tis not thy creed!

    Across the planet
    Let it be proven to all
    It was but a lie!
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
    Creating haiku
    My work ethic was decried
    ‘twas public shaming

    Apologize now
    this thing I demand of you
    In form: a haiku
  • hovdog
    hovdog

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
    He is filled with life.
    A twisted change of fate forms,
    And the baneling ‘splodes
  • Chronorayven
    Chronorayven

    Joined: Mar 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
    Nowhere to escape
    Danger in every shadow
    Shoot, Evade, Fight and Win
  • Insomniac_24_7
    Insomniac_24_7

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
    This world is twisted.
    Kids swearing in online games.
    I want to kill them.
  • Insomniac_24_7
    Insomniac_24_7

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
    This world is twisted.
    Kids swearing in online games.
    I want to kill them.
  • thedarkstar
    thedarkstar

    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
    Little shadow boy.
    Where has your sister gone to?
    We may never know.
  • the_mighty_toast
    the_mighty_toast

    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
    Rule One: Cardio.
    Ass the size of a planet?
    You're the first to go
  • Imnickson
    Imnickson

    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jul 29th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
    Sanity is so
    twisted On this shadowy
    binary planet
  • sl33pythyme
    sl33pythyme

    Joined: Apr 2009
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 1:46 am
    Oh, Captain Planet
    He's our powers magnified
    Fightng on Plantet's side
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 2:10 am
    Daniel, In god's name
    Reward sl33pythyme something
    Though it ends in 6
  • sl33pythyme
    sl33pythyme

    Joined: Apr 2009
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 10:27 am
    Oh your right i did mess up, pretend the last line is
    "fights on planet's side"
    or something
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 2:03 am
    I choose neither words
    For if i sum up this game
    It's dimmu borgir!

    And FINALLY! do you know how many years i made this game aware in the GR forum and now it's finally mentioned on the front page? 3 years, THREE FRICKING YEARS! Ahem, small victories my friends. Small victories...
  • Insomniac_24_7
    Insomniac_24_7

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 2:42 am
    Somehow my comment got posted twice. :/
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 2:48 am
    Like Solar Jetman
    This game does reminds me so.
    It's darker, twisted.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 2:49 am
    remind not reminds....EDIT PRZ
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 3:49 am
    This planet equals:
    "Insanely twisted shadow."
    Ding! What is Saturn?
  • Crackman
    Crackman

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 5:26 am
    Through shadow and flame
    Clenching the staff with his might
    Screams, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"
  • Markus_gp
    Markus_gp

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 9:55 am
    The Rabbit corpse feeds the crops
    Grows a new tail made of worms
    After the cold a flower grows
  • Markus_gp
    Markus_gp

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 10:10 am
    The Rabbit corpse feeds the crops
    new tail made of twisted worms
    After the cold a flower grows
  • recentlyentered
    recentlyentered

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 11:53 am
    Summer of Arcade!
    Insanely overloaded
    with greasy sweet games
  • seesaw24
    seesaw24

    Joined: May 2009
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
    Foaming at the mouth
    To play new Twisted Metal
    Sweet Tooth FTW
  • Uriyya
    Uriyya

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
    Twisted and unruly
    My heart is truly
    Striving after wind and foolish
  • Commiebot
    Commiebot

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
    You're in a saucer,
    But check: it's Flow, but twisted.
    Count me in buddy.
  • DumbRodent42
    DumbRodent42

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
    Twisted, rising shapes.
    Tentacled nightmares slither.
    Spaceship get; all is good.
  • DumbRodent42
    DumbRodent42

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
    Ah****.
    'All's good', not 'all is good'.

    >:l Oh well.
  • PCrow
    PCrow

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
    I look through the Windows
    At the
    Planet below me.
    Wait, this will never
    happen
  • mowmow
    mowmow

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
    I see my Shadow
    Insanely twisted by light
    Sun must be setting.
  • jokerzwild
    jokerzwild

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 4:51 am
    Humans have become
    Insanely twisted shadows
    The Planet is doomed

    @mysticfail on twitter
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 7:28 am
    Insanely twisted
    Haiku shadow planet game
    Best haiku game ever
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 7:31 am
    Twisted thoughts begin
    Shadow of a winter leaf
    Blowing in the wind
  • jojobean86
    jojobean86

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 8:39 am
    Planet:
    Taken hostage by shadow figures
    Ship:
    Lone protector twisted insanely by hostiles
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 9:25 am
    This planet, twisted
    When Summer time is up here
    Winter down below
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 9:35 am
    Insanely spamming
    Haiku at you, not to win
    Lazy I am not
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 11:18 am
    Our planet, ’tis fair
    Trees be budding in the spring
    Leaves to shed in fall
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 11:38 am
    Havent wrote haikus
    Never even tried thus far
    Wheres my free crap son?
  • jojobean86
    jojobean86

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 7:29 pm
    Gagne's artistically rendered planet
    Metroid style branded
    Download and scan it
  • Sammo
    Sammo

    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 7:56 pm
    Summer sun's a dick.
    Can't hide in my own shadow.
    Alone and sunburnt.
  • JeffG
    JeffG

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 9:11 pm
    Silhouettes abound
    twisted shadows attacking
    color me amazed!
  • JeffG
    JeffG

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 9:36 pm
    Insanity, a
    ship twisting in shadows.
    Planet, so cruel!
  • JeffG
    JeffG

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 9:41 pm
    Planet, evil scourge.
    Vying for survival, my ship.
    Refrigerator.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 10:33 pm
    Falling leaves twisted
    Shadow of the winter comes
    July, now forgotten
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 10:34 pm
    Goldenrods have bloomed
    Fall leaves twisted by the air
    Hibernating, bare
  • huge_heffner
    huge_heffner

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 10:52 pm
    Graphic masterpiece
    Color amid black and white
    Beware the shadow
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 at 11:05 pm
    Through winter’s forest
    Twisted winds insanely howl
    Not a leaf to blow.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 4:01 am
    Spring morning dawns
    Leaves are buds upon the trees
    Planet earth delights.

    Summer sun now shines
    Leaves of green are on the trees
    Planet earth delights.

    Autumn sun now sets
    Leaves of gold are on the trees
    Planet earth delights.

    Winter stars now shine
    Leaves are gone now from the trees
    Planet earth delights.
  • JeffG
    JeffG

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 5:58 am
    Ship, threading shadow.
    Planet, exudes dark fury.
    Two, as yin and yang.
  • pandesmos
    pandesmos

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 8:31 am
    Twisted darkness fell
    blacking out the star's bright shine
    Now, fight for the light!
  • rann
    rann

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 9:29 am
    Journey up the hill
    With a hoping heart to revive the loved one
    Shadow of the Collosus had to be cleansed
  • CherryRasulka
    CherryRasulka

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 9:31 am
    I fought for hours
    Cat scratches and all
    Litter box cleaned
  • CherryRasulka
    CherryRasulka

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 9:41 am
    I fought for hours
    Cat scratches and all
    Planet box cleaned
  • CherryRasulka
    CherryRasulka

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 9:49 am
    I fought for hours
    Cat scratches and all
    Planet box cleaned
  • JeffG
    JeffG

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 10:44 am
    This planet, ours.
    It bears many marks, yet lives.
    But I have digressed.
  • MultiPurposeJim
    MultiPurposeJim

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 1:17 pm
    Shadow relentless
    Shrouds reality afar.
    A ship, purges all.
  • MultiPurposeJim
    MultiPurposeJim

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 1st, 2011 at 1:27 pm
    Shadow relentless
    Shrouds reality afar.
    A ship, purges all.
  • Hallifax
    Hallifax

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 2nd, 2011 at 3:57 pm
    Immensely twisted
    Growing in endless shadow
    Seeds of Kashyyyk's trees.
  • emily13
    emily13

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 5th, 2011 at 1:19 am
    Shadow Planet looks ace
    But I spent my money at pub
    Please can I win one?

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