Puzzling puppets

“ilomilo” is one of those creations that’s so elegant, it’s hard to believe it hasn’t always been around. It would seem that such ideas would peter out over time, especially in such deeply mined genres as, say, puzzle video games, but then along comes something like “ilomilo” to prove that, at least under the digital sun, there is something new. The premise, as you’ve gathered, is simple: Ilo and Milo, stuffed dolls that resemble pincushions as much as anything animate, meet every day to sit awhile under a tree and enjoy apple tea with maple leaf-flavored biscuits. Only trouble is, the path each of them takes to this reunion gets reshuffled every day, and that’s where the game part comes in.