Roboclaw Apr 21, 2006
Posted by gflash in Dexterity, Games, Online.add a comment
Roboclaw, developed by Mobasher Iqbal, is one of the really good dexterity games available right now on the Web. Your goal is to use a small robot arm to grab the blue orb and move it onto the goal, without hitting any obstacles.
Control the robot arm by using the arrow keys. Right and left arrows to rotate main "shoulder", down and up arrows to rotate "elbow", clockwise and counter-clockwise, respectively.
Take your time to get used to the robot arm movements : it takes time before you get comfortable with. As pointed in the game instructions, your arm can go through any obstacles, and it is usually helpful !
Difficulty increases through the different 30 levels with moving walls, and later moving arm.
The remaining time after you end a level determines your score.
Roboclaw includes level passwords, so you don’t have to solve any level more than once if you want to end the game.
Roboclaw is as easy to understand as it’s arm sometimes tricky to use. If you want to test your patience and your dexterity during your next break, just click.
Update: Looking for passwords? Check here!
The world of Samorost – Samorost and Samorost 2 Apr 20, 2006
Posted by gflash in Adventure, Games, Online, Point-n-click.3 comments
Samorost and Samorost 2 are two of the best well-designed point-and-click adventure games that I have found so far on the Web. Developed by Amanita Design, they are both set in the same incredible world, where a little guy lives on a small planetoid in space.
In the first sequel, released in 2003, he has to save his home from an incoming bird-like asteroid. In Samorost 2, released in late 2005, aliens land on the same little guy’s planetoid, and kidnap his dog. Let go for the chase !
If the graphics of the first episod are awesome, the downside is that you can’t, as most of this type of game, save where you left off and pick up later. But the game is short and easy to solve, so it is not really a major weakness.
Samorost 2 is just as much as fun as Samorost. Same amazingly professional graphics, and it comes with level codes, solving the problem mentioned above.
In fact, the second opus comes in two chapters, and you can only play the first for free. You can download the full version for $6.90.
As the little guy can’t die and the puzzles are pretty simple, the games look to have been designed for moderately experienced adventurers.
So feel free to click almost everywhere, and eventually, after an hour or two, you’ll get everything done.
Do you want to enjoy Samorost’s world now ? It’s here.
Do you want more ? Then play Samorost 2.
flOw Apr 19, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Others.1 comment so far
flOw is an addictive flash game produced by Jenova Chen, a student from USC Interactive Media Division in California. The concept of the game is simple : eat, grow and evolve !
In this game, you’re playing a small worm diving in a deep blue space. Move your worm with your mouse, and accelerate by using left click.
Your worm has to eat creatures to evolve and grow up : eat the red ones to go deeper, and the blue ones to go shallower. The deeper your worm is, the darker the space is.
In order to grow, you can eat any smaller creature. If you want to eat multicellular organisms, try to break them up first into smaller pieces, by eating all their major cells.
Small creatures with a <+> sign make you grow longer. You get these creatures when you dislocate multicellular organisms.
If an organism turns to orange, it means it is attacking you. If creatures turn dark blue, they are more vulnerable.
Your journey will end once you’ll have eaten the giant orange jellyfish, living somewhere in the deepest level.
Even if the goal of the game is not really easy to catch at the beginning, flOw is an incredible flash game, with amazing graphics and animations. Surrounded by a superb new-age soundtrack, Jenova plunges us into a really relaxing atmosphere while the main goal of the game is just nothing but survive in a crual world !
With a free download version available for PC & Mac, there is nothing to add but wow !
Enjoy flOw here.
Special thanks to xcreations for their screen shot.
Rebonds Apr 18, 2006
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Rebonds is a simple on-line balls game. It comes with a pool table, including five green balls and a white one. Your goal is to made as many collisions as possible with the balls.
All you have to do first is to find the best angle to shot your white ball using the mouse (thanks to the green arrow), and start watching the 'ballet' !
With such a simple game-play, you could easily imagine getting bored just after a couple of attempts : but JP, Rebonds french developer, was smart enough to add these damned high scores scrolling at the bottom of the screen. And it's such a good idea, because it helps you staying in, trying to find the trick leading to the Hall of Fame !
With nice graphics and well-done physics, Rebonds is fun and you’ll probably come back later. Click !
Connexions Apr 17, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Puzzle.2 comments
Connexions is a nice real-time puzzle game, something between the famous Tetris and Plumber from Terrypaton. The goal is pretty easy to understand : click on the pipe segments to rotate them clockwise and try to create a continuous pipeline. The longer the pipeline is, the more points you’ll be rewarded. Once completed, the pipeline disappears and new segments fall down from the top of the screen to replace the previous ones.
Thorsten Diessner, Connexions designer, has made a really good job here. Graphics are nice and the race against the clock definitely makes the game tense at times.
On the downside, the game comes without any real soundtrack, just the same little boring sound when your click a pipe segment. I recommend you use the option to turn the sound off, and find instead a sweet melody on your favorite web-radio.
I would also have appreciated to be able to pause the game (with a hidden screen, of course), in order to relax at high levels.
Connexions would probably have been even more tricky with pipes crossing over just like in Plumber 2, but may be then less addictive than it is.
Anyway, easy to learn, easy to play, it is a fun and simple game. If you want to play for two minutes or two hours, just click.
Cyrano Apr 15, 2006
Posted by gflash in Classics, Games, Online.add a comment
Cyrano sounds like a strange name for an Othello Reversi online game ; it was developed by Bruno Causse, a french developer who seems to have spent a lot of time to build this little but really powerful game, available on his website.
Othello is a well known 2 players 8 by 8 squares board game using 64 discs. Each disc is white on one side and black on the other. Each player chooses one color, and the goal is to have a majority of the pieces showing your color by the end of the game.
Both players take turns placing a single piece of his or her color on the board. Once a piece is played, it never moves, but it can be flipped. Specifically, each time you place a piece, you also flip some of your opponent's pieces — those that are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally between the piece you just put down and another piece of your own color. You are required to flip at least one of your opponent's pieces each time you make a move, otherwise you have to pass your turn. The game ends when neither player can make a legal move.
Cyrano offers different levels of difficulty, from beginner to master. It also allow you to play in Blitz mode, with 3 choices : 1, 3 and 5 minutes. Note that you'll be able to finish the game even if your remaining time goes below 0.
Beware, Cyrano is strong, very strong, and even at the beginner level, you’ll need some practice if not days before being able to win !
With a clean interface and the legal moves option activated, Cyrano is a serious opponent for Othello games and a perfect choice in the jungle of Othello online games. Just have a look here.
The Fancy Pants Adventure Apr 14, 2006
Posted by gflash in Action, Games, Online.5 comments
I found this game yesterday on myflashresource. Created by Brad Borne, The Fancy Pants Adventure is a platform adventure game where you play a really well animated character who wear, guess what… a very fancy pair of pants ! Inspired from the famous Sonic the Hedgehog, this games includes very well-done physics, vast and open world, a lot of hidden areas you’ll be able to find if you take the time to look and go everywhere.
An advice : try to catch as much swirls as you can. They refill your health and give you an extra life every 100.
Avoiding enemies, projectiles, jumping on platforms, running and using half-pipes or hills to fly and fall smoothly in many directions, wow the gameplay is so intense.
Designed for Armor Games, with spectacular animations and a really good soundtrack composed by Geier Arnold, this game definitely worth it. Have a look here and enjoy !
Please, Brad, give us soon a second opus !
Breakit 2 Apr 13, 2006
Posted by gflash in Arcade, Games, Online.add a comment
Breakit 2 is so far on of the best Breakout like flash game I ever played with. It was developed by Terry from Terrypaton.com, includes 50 different levels, a great soundtrack and a high level of graphic designs.
The goal is easy to catch : move your pad with your mouse and try to eliminate all the bricks by smashing them once or more with your ball (yep, just like in every other Breakout games, I know !).
But Terry improved the Breakout concept : first, by adding tons of bonus points you’ll have to catch with your pad, getting you nervous at some points of the game.
Second, the pad movements are also a new feature in Terry’s game : you’ll be surprised at the beginning with the tilt pad effect, but it shouldn’t take a long time before you figure out how to take advantage of this extra feature.
Each level includes several power-ups for your pad such as large one, small one or double one, not to mention my favorite, shooting pad (left click).
Even if minor issues with physics remain today in the game, even if the difficulty does not especially increase throughout the 50 different levels, and even if, after playing with this second release of Breakit, you’ll just expect to see Breakit 3 coming soon as I do, Breakit 2 is definitely a really clean and perfect game for everyone, in an awesome package.
Thanks Terry ! Click.
Orbox B Apr 12, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Puzzle.3 comments
Orbox B is a flash game which combines simplicity and puzzle solving. The goal is to move your little box from the start point to the flashing target, using the four arrows of your keyboard. Once launched, your box will only stop after striking one of the numerous objects you will discover all around the 30 different levels the game offers.
Try to avoid sending your box out of the screen, or you will have to restart the level from the beginning. And if you get stucked, don't forget the space bar to restart the current level.
Orbox B is the second opus from Orbox collection developed by the Russian Arseniy Shklyaev. Orbox B gives much more fun than its predecessor.
First, it introduces the password option, which means you don't have to end the 30 levels in a row anymore, thanks to the passwords. This option wasn't available in the first Orbox sequel, leading to frustration for players with not so much time to refresh their mind, at work especially.
Second, it has improved graphics and very well-designed levels.
Orbox and Orbox B have both 30 levels to complete, and both of them have a little boring music you'll need to turn off asap if you don't want to become crazy and stay relax.
Running smoothly, easy to learn, nice and neat, Orbox B is definitely a game you need to try, here.
And for this kind of puzzles addicted gamers, please take a look at Road Blocks, from Michael Gagnon and Alex Withrow. It doesn't look as sweet as Orbox B to my point of view, but again it has a password system, very useful for players who want to achieve the 22 levels at their own pace.
So now, with more than 80 levels available, you should be able to spend a few hours today, trying to reach the next exit !
Websudoku Apr 03, 2006
Posted by gflash in Games, Online, Puzzle.add a comment
Sudoku is the name for a maddeningly addictive Japanese number logic puzzle which has become a bona fide craze in the United States during the past twelve months. The rules are simple.
There is a nine-by-nine grid composed of nine three-by-three boxes.
Some numbers are already filled in to a few of the 81 squares.
The goal is to fill in all the squares so that each row, column and box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.
Gideon Greenspan and Rachel Lee have created Websudoku, a website that is capable of generating billions of puzzles, with three different levels of difficulty, from easy to hard !
If you like Sudoku, just go and play !
