Posted by Derek Yu
Tue, 06 May 2008 02:41:00 GMT
Pixeljam, the creators of Gamma Bros. and the Ratmaze games, have released Dino Run, the latest in their series of low-resolution Flash titles! The basic premise is that you are a little dinosaur escaping extinction! Run, run (and jump), as fast as you can to the end of each level before the “Wall of Doom” engulfs you.
This game’s a real charmer. Each of the 7 levels is meticulously rendered in beautiful lo-fi, with lots of little details that you will probably be too busy running past to notice. Along the way you’ll get to snack on birds, lizards, and fish, grab rides with pterodactyls, and discover lots of alternate passageways and secret nooks. Other dinosaurs that are fleeing the destruction will hinder you, help you, or just plain die at the hands of crashing meteors and other dangers – the entire atmosphere is kind of dreadful, in a really cute way.
There are quite a few extra features, like dino DNA upgrades, unlockable speedrun levels, various difficulty settings, and even a multiplayer online mode that lets you race against other dinos. A small donation will get you a Dino Run Bonus Package which lets you customize your dino’s look, among other things. Do eet – this game is really cool!
(Source: Tim, via the IndieGames.com blog)
Posted in Platformers, Highly Recommended, Browser Games | Tags PixelJam | 44 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Thu, 01 May 2008 17:33:00 GMT
Meet In is a brand new Eyezmaze puzzle game! The goal is to reunite the family. Activate a family member by clicking on their screen and move them with the arrow keys.
As On explains, the game is “suitable for beginners.”
(Source: Alec Meer, via Rock, Paper, Shotgun)
Posted in Browser Games, Puzzle | Tags Eyezmaze | 10 comments
Posted by Terry
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:05:00 GMT
Scorching Earth is all about planning ahead – you start with one burning patch of land, and you have to spread the fire outwards to consume the whole level. I could spend a while explaining how it all works, but honestly, it’s best discovered yourself by diving right in. This is the sorta puzzle game I love – the kind where you have to sit back and think things through, as opposed to making twitch reactions to random blocks.
I’m only six levels in, but first impressions are very positive! There’s no tedious tutorial levels or handholding – it’s hard enough to cut your teeth on right from level one (in fact, it actually gets easier for a while after the first level). All puzzle games should be like this!
(Source: JayIsGames)
Posted in Browser Games, Puzzle | Tags RowlandRose | 9 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:36:00 GMT
Here’s a rather amusing experiment – The Naked Game is a simple, browser-based Pong reproduction that’s played by two computer AI’s. The twist is that its code is laid bare and the game allows the player to toggle each line on/off, altering the game’s mechanics in real time.
Unfortunately (in my opinion), the developer decided to cover the site with a bunch of very thinly-stretched “games as art” discussion… whether as a joke or what, it’s hard to say, but ultimately it just distracts from what is a pretty nifty idea.
I’d love to see this concept explored a bit more. It’d be kinda cool to build it into a multi-player game, where one person is playing and the other person is messing with the code in real time! Wouldn’t it?
(Source: Tim, via the IndieGames.com blog)
Posted in Unique / Bizarre, Browser Games, Games and Art | Tags StewartHogarth | 17 comments
Posted by Jordan Magnuson
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:54:00 GMT
World 2 update 1.5 is fast approaching.
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Posted in Platformers, Browser Games, Action / Arcade, Freeware | Tags BorneGames | 8 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:31:00 GMT
With so much uncertainty in the world today… sometimes a nice, straightforward video game is exactly what the doctor ordered.
(Source: dessgeega, via The Gamer’s Quarter forums)
Posted in Platformers, Unique / Bizarre, Browser Games | Tags Kian | 67 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:11:00 GMT
Nigoro / GR3 Project’s latest Flash game, Mekuri Master, puts you in the role of a panty-lovin’ pervert. Swing the mouse to lift up girls’ skirts as you run down the hall, raising your “Mekuri Meter” with every successful lift. When the meter gets full, transform into the “Mekuri Master,” who’s skills are so l33t that he can even upskirt female gangsters and wrinkled old teachers! It’s pervy fun (and not recommended to try in real life).
According to friend Shih Tzu, there’s some history behind this game:
See, according to Japanese Wikipedia, flipping up girls’ skirts, or skirt-mekuri, was a fad in Japanese schools among boys (and girls), particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s. This was supposedly Marilyn Monroe’s fault, or something. The level of societal concern over this varied depending on the age on the perpetrators and the exact nature of the incidents.
But honestly, the first person I thought of when I saw this game: Prometheus, aka Arne. Any chance of a remake that features super low-cut white cotton panties?
(Source: IndieGames.com)
Posted in Unique / Bizarre, Browser Games, Casual, Doujin | Tags NIGORO | 21 comments
Posted by Terry
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:52:00 GMT
The creator of Which Way Adventure has another flash based Choose Your Own Adventure game out, entitled Get Lost. It seems to have been created as a promotional game of some sort for E4, but don’t let that put you off – if you liked the original, you’ll love this. It’s full of the same random, inexplicable humour and little details that made Which Way Adventure so much fun.
Check it out at E4.com, or at the author’s blog here.
Posted in Unique / Bizarre, Browser Games, Adventure | Tags ATriangleMorning | 28 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:32:00 GMT
I’ve been playing this web game Ikariam for a few weeks now, and man, it’s pretty fun (and free!). There’s just enough to do that it keeps my interest, but it’s passive enough that I don’t feel bad walking away from it for a few days at a time. It’s well-balanced so that you can have a good time no matter how social you want to get.
Essentially, the game is empire-building. You register an account, choose a world (server) to play on, and then you’re plopped down on a random island. A big part of the game involves building up your town, doing research, and managing resources. Which, of course, ends up being pretty fun. Harvesting of materials and research is automatic, and the only decision to be made is how many citizens to devote to each (citizens without specific tasks will generate gold).
Every island in Ikariam holds 16 towns maximum, and each island has one sawmill and one luxury resource – marble, sulfur, crystal glass, and grapes. These two spots are shared by all the inhabitants of the island and must be upgraded through donations. As you can imagine, you need all four of the luxury resources to expand in Ikariam, so trading between other islands is a must. The trading interface is slick and easy to use.
Since the sawmills, quarries, pits, mines, and vineyards are all communal, you get some moochers on every island who don’t donate – it’s common practice to pillage these poor bastards until they feel generous. War and diplomacy are also big parts of the game, and I won’t go into too much detail, but, suffice to say, you can be a total Machiavelli and/or Ghengis Khan, if you please. Just be careful of pillaging towns that belong to alliances, as you can quickly find yourself at the wrath of one of the more powerful ones.
This is about the perfect amount of learning curve/investment for me, for an online game (and the graphics are nice, too). If you want to play together, join the world “Iota” and come find me! My capital is “Tiger Sauce,” on Cukios [70:45]. My friend and I have a small alliance going (“Owl Country”), and it’d be nice to have some TIGers in it!
EDIT: Great to see so many people joined up! Here’s a guide to joining alliances. Before you join, you need an embassy!
Posted in Browser Games, MMOG, Casual, Sim | Tags Gameforge | 50 comments
Posted by Derek Yu
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:54:00 GMT
Amanita Design, the creators of Samorost and Samorost 2, have released a new project, made for the BBC. Questionaut is a beautiful quiz game with some adventure and puzzle elements to it. The questions, which cover topics ranging from writing to math to science, are aimed at 11 year-olds, so they’re a bit on the easy side… but the entire production is so lovely that it doesn’t really matter.
And they’re still working on Machinarium, which is due at the end of 2008 but really couldn’t come fast enough!
(Source: Tim, via IndieGames.com)
Posted in Highly Recommended, Browser Games, Adventure, Puzzle | Tags AmanitaDesign | 9 comments
