New Home ! May 15, 2006
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Targets May 10, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Shooting.4 comments
“Targets” is a new “non-violent” shooter designed by Nowe Reginald. The object here is to hit as much red and white targets as possible in 45 seconds. Try to be accurate to get higher scores. Don’t miss targets! An increasing minimum score is required in order to qualify for each new stage. “Targets” is a short but quite addictive game, for a 2 to 5 minutes break. Click!
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Rumble Ball May 08, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Pool.2 comments
Rumble Ball is a set of four great games developed by the Russian Arseniy Shklyaev, and available on gamebalance, his website. The goal in every opus is to score as many points as you can by hitting colored items with a ball. Both yellow balls and colored cubes score points. The more items you hit at once, the more points will be added to your score. The first item is worth 10 points, the second 20, the third 30, and so on (5, 10, 15, 20 points and so on in RB 3).
You can control the way you hit your ball with your mouse and then click to launch it through obstacles.
There is no limit to the number of times you may hit the ball: having said that, feel free to find the best position without hitting any obstacle, and then pocket as much points as possible on your next shot!
The downside in Rumble Ball 1 and 2 is that you have no control on the ball speed, leading to a real frustration sometimes.
Luckily, in the third and fourth sequels of the game, Arsenij has implemented this essential function, leading to a much more enjoyable game play.
Traps, like mines and holes are also another improvement in Rumble Ball 3 and 4: from now on, you will get a penalty of 250 and 500 points respectively if your ball hits a mine or falls in a hole. Even worse, if your ball ends in a hole, you will have to restart the current level from scratch!
Every Rumble Ball game comes with 5 different levels, for a 5 to 10 minutes play time.
With pleasant graphics, nice sounds (especially when getting combos) and an intuitive interface, Rumble Ball is definitely the kind games everybody likes. Highly recommended!
Want to play with Rumble Ball? Pick a number – one, two, three or four – and enjoy!
Il Destino R May 05, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Point-n-click.6 comments
Il Destino R was released at the beginning of this week by the Japanese creators of Il Destino and The Bar, two famous point’n’click room escape games available on gotgame website.
Il Destino R is a brand new remake of Il Destino, sharing exactly the same scenario. Several years ago, your father, a famous and popular cars designer, has built a car and sold it to one of his Italian friends. The car was based on one of your childhood drawings.
Coming back from Italy, you father gave you the key of his used cars showroom, where “the car” is back, just waiting for you. The game begins in the showroom, and you will have to figure out how to use the different items you’ll find there, in order to get out.
Il Destino R takes place in the same show room used for Il Destino: story and visuals are identical in both games, but objects have moved around, and puzzles are quite different and probably trickier, not to mention the new color of the car. Just use your mouse to point and click on items: sometimes, they need to be used together, you’ll have to try different combinations.
With a very high level of visuals and graphics, Il Destino R and its predecessor are two short but excellent point’n’click games.
Oopops May 04, 2006
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Oopops.com presents a 50 seconds game. Click and hold the left button on the chameleon and drag your mouse on bugs, then release the mouse button. Eat as much bugs as you can in 50 seconds, and try to make combos. A short little game, written in French with nice graphics. Perfect for a two to five minutes break: Click!
Ringmania 2 May 04, 2006
Posted by gflash in Dexterity, Games, Online, Puzzle.3 comments
Ringmania 2 is a brand new skill game designed by JP, a French developer who previously designed Rebonds (read this post) and Ringmania.
In this game, you control with your mouse a set of black bubbles (magnets) and brown bumpers, connected together by invisible links.
Each level comes with a different set, including some colored rings connected to the black bubbles.
When new rings appear during the game, the black bubbles attract them while they bounce on brown bumpers. Floating rings get stuck on black bubbles or on rings already stuck on black bubbles.
The goal of the game is to clear the playfield of all rings by connecting three or more rings of the same color to make them explode.
To add some stress, left and right borders of the playfield get closer each time a ring leave the screen: you must clear each of the 22 stages before you can’t move your set of bubbles.
Note: as the game includes a level editor, we could expect that JP add new levels in a near future.
I was a little confused the first time I played with Ringmania 2; but soon and with some practice, I discovered a much more entertaining and subtle game than the first opus, Ringmania.
With nice graphics, a very good physics implementation and sweet background music, Ringmania 2 is really an addictive game. Don’t start playing with Ringmania 2 if you just want to relax for a five to ten minutes break. Consider instead having fun with Rebonds.
But if you are prepared to spend hours playing with rings and magnets, this is the one.
Ringmania 2, a great game! Click.
Pop Pirates May 01, 2006
Posted by gflash in Arcade, Download, Games.add a comment
Pop Pirates is an arcade scrolling shooter created by Bloc games for Diesel and their ProtoKid website. The pop pirates have hacked into the Protokid servers and are stealing all your music. You will be digitized as a protokid anti-virus software (yes!) in order to clean up the system from all viruses and get your music files as you go.
Use the mouse to control your protokid and press the left button to fire. Shoot at every computer virus and try to collect music files they left as fast as you can to score maximum points. You will start the game with a simple blue ray gun, but you should quickly be able to upgrade your protokid gun with more powerful weapons such as killer-watt, mega-bite and fire-wall, each of them coming with different levels of power.
After some practice, you should end with a nice and sweet really powerful arsenal, all weapons firing simultaneously: this is where the game becomes to be really addictive. Don’t forget defensive power-ups such as anti-virus and magnetron, and try to catch every extra-life.
Each level comes with around twenty different waves of randomized virus, coming from any border of the screen; defeat the boss at the end of each level to go the next stage.
Pop Pirates is so far the best release from Bloc games. The game has very nice graphics and animations, a good soundtrack and is quite addictive.
Difficulty is correctly managed, and enemies hit points, speed and fire power increase throughout the game. Having said that, once your protokid is fully loaded with mega-bite x 8 and fire-wall x 6, fun really begins and you should consider next time to register yourself in order to let your name in the Hall of Fame!
Pop Pirates is a really nice arcade game: just click!
David Thorburn – Teagames.com Apr 28, 2006
Posted by gflash in Action, Games, Online, Puzzle.4 comments
Teagames.com was founded by the British designer David Thorburn and has been established since 2003. Teagames.com is very well known website from the online gamers community.
You will find on David’s website all the games ha hase developed until now. Many of them involve driving a truck (Funky Truck) or a bike (BMX); graphics of almost all of them include pastel colors and a very ‘unique’ design.
Physics are great and games are usually released every month. Here is a selection of the most interesting and addictive ones…
Orangutwang
Orangutwang, the last game released until today has a quite different game play than the usual setup of most famous David Thorburn games. The object here is simply to swing a stretchy Orangutan from ring to ring and help him collecting babanas before the time runs out. Use your mouse and hold on the left button to select a member's end and drag it on a ring. Avoid Arachnids and wasps.
As usual with Teamgames, graphics and physics are perfect. On the downside, the 60 seconds delay to complete a level is probably a little bit to short for those who just want to relax during a break. Anyway, everyone should enjoy playing a few minutes with Orangutwang. Not the best game ever, but an original and very well designed one. Click.
Funky Truck Arizona
The latest version of the Funky Truck series. The game puts you as a driver of a Funky Truck that you can customize in the main menu. The object of the game is to drive as fast as you can through 9 different stages from beginning to end, keeping your truck clean and undamaged.
Use the practise option to get familiar with the truck (arrow keys to control the truck), and enjoy the amazing physics implementation. A really nice little and simple game, allowing you to attempt some triple back somersaults with a 4WD to get extra bonus points – Wow! Click.
Blueprint
Blueprint is puzzle/physics type game. The object of the game is to arrange the different objects on the play filed so that when the ball is released, it will end onto the target. Use the mouse to drag and drop the objects the way you like, then click the start button to launch the ball.
Difficulty increases as the levels progress, although the different levels may be completed in any order. Of course, the downside of the game is that once you have completed a level, there is no interest to redo that same level again. A great game for a 10 minutes break. Have a look here.
BMX Highlands
The latest version of the BMX series. The game puts you as a biker ; the object of the game is to ride the slopes and hills of the Highlands, exploring the 9 different levels of the game looking for keys (3 per level) and try to make successful stunts to get extra bonus points.
With really nice animation and physics, the game looks great and is easy to play; you can control your biker with the arrow keys: up for peddling forward; left to lean back; right to lean forward and down to brake. Use your space bar to turn around and Ctrl to recover from a crash. You will have probably to practice for a while before mastering this game, but it really worthes it! Click.
Hot Rocks Apr 25, 2006
Posted by gflash in Arcade, Games, Online.1 comment so far
I was looking for hot flash games with Google, and the first link I found at the top of the list was… Hot Flash Games (!), a website created by Shawn, where you can find his own creations.
The best one by far is a really nice Asteroids remake called Hot Rocks. Asteroids was first released by Atari in 1979 and became quickly one of the most popular arcade games. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by them.
Use left and right arrows to rotate the ship and up arrow to thrust forward. Hold down arrow to activate your shied to prevent collision with asteroids. Press space bar to fire and destroy asteroids.
Shawn has introduced a new concept in the game : the space dock which allows you to power up your ship.
With nice graphics and a good soundtrack, Hot Rocks is a very fun game, reminding me the golden age of arcade games.
If you want to play with Hot Rocks, just click.
Note : you can also enjoy Hot Water, a Connexions and Plumber like game (read this post).
Mahjongg 3D Apr 24, 2006
Posted by gflash in Classics, Games, Online.1 comment so far
Mahjong (or Mahjongg) is one of the most popular strategy games and a plausible theory suggests that Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, could have developed the game around 500BC. If Majhong is originally a four players game, a solitaire matching game, Mahjong Solitaire, is available on computers since 1981.
The object with Mahjong Solitaire is to remove all 144 tiles from the play field. There are four of each tile, except for two special tile types, flowers and seasons. Both of these special types have four different tiles each that match with each other. To remove tiles, you must match up like tiles, and they both must be free to slide off the pile to the left or to the right.
You can easily find numerous Mahjong Solitaire versions today on the web : having said that, Mahjongg 3D, developed by Mike Dogan and Mauricio Winges, is definitely one of the best ever released for free.
With 25 different layouts, six sets of tiles and a complete editor to build your own layouts, Mahjongg 3D has almost everything !
Graphics are great and Mahjongg 3D uses dynamic outputs which automatically adjust to the size of the game’s window.
Mahjongg 3D includes a smart speed bonus points system, much more appropriate than the usual countdown provided with matching games, usually leading to some frustration feelings once time is over. The 3D view option is also useful with layouts including hugh piles of tiles and the hint button always helpful when players get stuck…
On the downside, even if music and sounds are nice, they just distract the player. Unfortunately, the music button in the game just turns off the music, so you’ll need to turn off the sound with the computer’s volume control if you just want to relax.
Mahjongg 3D is definitely the kind of flash games we would like to see more often on the web : click !
Thanks to Stebu.
