Cute independent game!
Sometimes the independent game community can turn out some nice games and this is one of them... it's called "Dodge that Anvil!". It's a game where you control a bunny who must harvest enough carrots to complete a level while dodging anvils and sometimes there are missions where you have to do things such as pull up huge turnip type bombs and free a huge plant to complete that level. The pulling up of vegetables reminds me of Super Mario Brothers 2 (american of course since it was actually not a mario game in japan). You can either play the demo online or download a version to your computer that can use keyboard, mouse or gamepad. It's made for both PC or Mac.
The look kind of reminds me of paper mario where the characters are 2D and the backgrounds are 3D. One thing I have noticed about this game in particular is that the characters scale up well as you up the resolution as you can see in the screenshot I am now posting which was taken at 1280x1024. I think just about any modern PC or Mac can handle it's system requirements. I can't imagine it being more demanding than quake 1 when you come down to it. So if it looks interesting to you I suggest you give it a try even if you think your computer isn't up to snuff for the latest games.
Rabidlab games say on their web site that they are "dedicated to the creation of video games that appeal to casual and experienced game players alike" and I think they are off to a good start with "Dodge that anvil!". Which is their first and only game so far. Oh yeah.. I hooked up my PC gamepad to my Mac and used it to play the game and it works really well. I suggest if you have a USB gamepad somewhere to give it a try it's a little bit easier to get a hang of in this particular game than using the mouse (it's not a first or third person shooter after all). But either keyboard or mouse should work ok anyway.
I also might add that I think it'd be a great game for kids as well which is pretty obvious when you see the screenshots but it's a fun game so I think it could be fun for anyone as long as they are not allergic to cute. This game won an award at the 2006 Independent Games Festival. I tried it on my PC laptop and it works just as well there as it does on my Mac although because of the size of the screen it has to be played at 1024x768 so you can kind of consider the first shot to be representative of how it is on my laptop.
I just finished the demo on my Mac and I can't wait for the full version to come out!