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Jul. 4th, 2008 01:04 pmI've been enjoying my legitimate week off loafing and generally doing sod all. I've read a few books, played lots and lots of ikariam (come join us on Eta if you haven't yet. I offer cookies), and spent yesterday and this morning trawling through jayisgames.com.
Here are (some) of the treasures I've found:
Day of the Bobteds: You are a shiny silver ball. You can drop once. Hit all bobteds and you can go to the next level. Addictive puzzler.
Chat Noir: Deceptively simple puzzle game. You need to box in the cat, making sure it does not escape from the playing field.
Osmosis: You control a little blue sheep that needs to be guided to the other side of the screen. You can control gravity, spin and friction by drawing symbols on the screen with your pointer. Be careful to avoid the orange spots, because they put your little sheep to sleep.
Grow Island: No game link-spam post is complete without the obligatory Grow game. I don't think it needs an introduction or explanation.
Skywire: Guide a cable cart through a crazy series of loops, bends, drops and steep climbs, taking care to avoid (amongst others) swinging monkeys, parachuting pandas and butterflies with rotors (and weirdly loopy expressions).
Skywire 2: Like Skywire above, only more of it.
Hot Air: From the same people who made Skywire. Cute 8bit graphics. They remind me of Commander Keen in a way.
Fold and Manifold: Your job is to guide the cute little alien through/over/under a series of obstacles. I can't explain the dynamics, so I urge you to at least take a look at the first level or two to get the idea.
Angular Momentum: Frustrating, but fun. It seems straightforward: guide the ball to the end of the level, jumping over a few obstacles in the way. However, they've added angular momentum to it, which changes it from boring to 'Argh! Go left, you bugger!'. Fun and educational for the audience.
It's a Fact: Weird Popcorn-like game. The amount of points you earn determines what you are. I've been a deformed pencil and a cubist robot party. Yeah, I don't know either...
Server Quest: Point-and-click adventure in the style of the old Sierra games. Very enjoyable.
The Tall Stump: Easily one of the best platform adventures I've played in a long time. The graphic are cute, the puzzles are vexing enough, and there is only a little 'you must time this absolutely perfectly'. Also? Your character wears a paper hat. How cool is that?
The Asylum: One of my favourite games. It's an asylum for cuddly toys. There's a variety of traumatised animals in there and it is your job to make them well again. You can use various technique like music therapy, educational therapy, drugs, hypnosis and dream interpretation. Some of the stories are heart-breaking and make you want to adopt the poor plushy in question. Which you can. Go on, play The Asylum. You know you want to help those poor traumatised fluffies.*
Hotcorn: You are a sun. You need to pop corn. 'Nuff said.
And finally, in the 'suspend disbelief by the neck until deaddeaddead' category, we have Off-Road Velociraptor Safari: Yeah, the title says it all.
* The management is not responsible for any damage caused by high levels of cute emanating from the agoraphobic crocodile.
ETA: The Visitor: Point-and-click. Guide the alien worm. Cute graphics. Cute violent graphics occasionally.
Here are (some) of the treasures I've found:
Day of the Bobteds: You are a shiny silver ball. You can drop once. Hit all bobteds and you can go to the next level. Addictive puzzler.
Chat Noir: Deceptively simple puzzle game. You need to box in the cat, making sure it does not escape from the playing field.
Osmosis: You control a little blue sheep that needs to be guided to the other side of the screen. You can control gravity, spin and friction by drawing symbols on the screen with your pointer. Be careful to avoid the orange spots, because they put your little sheep to sleep.
Grow Island: No game link-spam post is complete without the obligatory Grow game. I don't think it needs an introduction or explanation.
Skywire: Guide a cable cart through a crazy series of loops, bends, drops and steep climbs, taking care to avoid (amongst others) swinging monkeys, parachuting pandas and butterflies with rotors (and weirdly loopy expressions).
Skywire 2: Like Skywire above, only more of it.
Hot Air: From the same people who made Skywire. Cute 8bit graphics. They remind me of Commander Keen in a way.
Fold and Manifold: Your job is to guide the cute little alien through/over/under a series of obstacles. I can't explain the dynamics, so I urge you to at least take a look at the first level or two to get the idea.
Angular Momentum: Frustrating, but fun. It seems straightforward: guide the ball to the end of the level, jumping over a few obstacles in the way. However, they've added angular momentum to it, which changes it from boring to 'Argh! Go left, you bugger!'. Fun and educational for the audience.
It's a Fact: Weird Popcorn-like game. The amount of points you earn determines what you are. I've been a deformed pencil and a cubist robot party. Yeah, I don't know either...
Server Quest: Point-and-click adventure in the style of the old Sierra games. Very enjoyable.
The Tall Stump: Easily one of the best platform adventures I've played in a long time. The graphic are cute, the puzzles are vexing enough, and there is only a little 'you must time this absolutely perfectly'. Also? Your character wears a paper hat. How cool is that?
The Asylum: One of my favourite games. It's an asylum for cuddly toys. There's a variety of traumatised animals in there and it is your job to make them well again. You can use various technique like music therapy, educational therapy, drugs, hypnosis and dream interpretation. Some of the stories are heart-breaking and make you want to adopt the poor plushy in question. Which you can. Go on, play The Asylum. You know you want to help those poor traumatised fluffies.*
Hotcorn: You are a sun. You need to pop corn. 'Nuff said.
And finally, in the 'suspend disbelief by the neck until deaddeaddead' category, we have Off-Road Velociraptor Safari: Yeah, the title says it all.
* The management is not responsible for any damage caused by high levels of cute emanating from the agoraphobic crocodile.
ETA: The Visitor: Point-and-click. Guide the alien worm. Cute graphics. Cute violent graphics occasionally.
