It's friday, so it's time to kick back (!) and relax a little with a brand new action game made with Away3D! Bloody Rage 2 is a full 3D Fighter game with a bunch of opponents to take on ( Super-Obama, Snake, Bruise Lee, Piccolo and many more). The game is almost Console quality and offers advanced features such as a character editor that allows you to freely paint and decorate your characters.
Click here to play Bloody Rage 2!
I just wasted (too much) time on a classic platform game done in Flash called The Fancy Pants Adventure World 2. Why? It's just so well executed. The levels are clever and varied, the controls are intuitive and responsive and while the graphics may look simple, but they're really well animated with lot's of humor.
There's an incredibly high level of detail in this game - from the characters hair blowing in the direction you're running/jumping, when he's almost slipping off and edge, fixing his hair or going to sleep if you don't do anything. It's full of charm and 100% child-safe, so if you have an hour (or more to waste) check it out! Despite the simple style, I know that making a game with this good flow is incredibly hard so this game gets my vote for best Flash Game 2008!
Just wasted way too much time play through this game called Splume. Utilizing a classic concept this is a "silent", but really good time-waster on a rainy Oslo friday.
(via Mims Wright)
Been a while since I've posted any games, but here's one for the Guitar Hero fans - Fløjte Hero! For those not too steady in Danish, Fløjte means Flute. Go on stage and blow them away! :-P
(via Flash Freebies)
This is one of the more inventive games and uses of Flash video that I've seen lately. It seems so obvious when you see it, but it's a beautiful 3D animated board game. Just throw the dice to get milk :)
(Via GT)
Remember Lemmings? I wasted so many hours on that game... I have it on my mobile for those times the train is delayed, but here's a nice twist to it from Kerb: Guide a bunch of students from the phone-booth to the party-tent :-)
Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) is a priciple not so often used in todays 3D glorified world. Tower Defence is extremely simplistic, but a great game.
(Via Franto)
Duhh... Yet again, my gaming PC crashes while playing Rise of Legends, just when it started to get intense and I didn't save (Glad I switched to Mac so the same don't happen on my development-machine). Will be some time until we get such a quality (if ever) in Flash-games, but my hopes are high that there will be some sort of 3D engine in the upcoming Flash 10 player. While we wait for that - Andre Michelle just blogged a nice 2D physics engine for Flash and AS3 that was just released as Open Source: Fisix.
Fisix looks promising, but it's still a little slow, especially when played back on an Intel Mac. Slightly irritating that I get better FPS using virtualization running Parallels and XP in a window on the OSX desktop. One would think that now that all the Adobe-folks are running Intel Macs themselves they'd do something about this?
Fun use of a webservice! Using real maps from the Google mapping service, you can pilot a small plane over photorealistic scenerey. It's not exactly 3D, but great fun.
This summer has been really warm here in Norway - around 30 degrees (85 Fahrenheit) almost all of July. The result is a wasp- and bug-invasion like I've never seen before. Here's a fun little Flash timewaster where you give the bugs a hard time (or was it the other way around?)
Very nice adaption of Donkey Kong Junior made in AS3 by Todd Anderson. Brings back a lot of memories about those games - such as the time I used a really sharp knife to remove some ink that had spilled on my orange Donkey Kong game. The knife slipped and I cut off half the connectors to the upper screen. As you can probably guess, the game was not very playable after that :(
(learned a valuable lesson about using the right tool for the job at hand though...)
Great use of transparent Flash 8 video in this simple but hard to master game. This is maybe the definition of "Hit'n'run"?
(Via M4)
Here's a cool Flash platform game with oldschool looks, but with excellent physics and gameplay. Found it on Paulo's blog.
Many have blogged about this game already, but I might as well add to it. It's not that often that new game concepts appear, but from time to time somebody comes up with a new puzzler or a new iteration for an old concept. Flow is basically an iteration of the ever popular worms-game, but it's different in that it's an evolving game - your character evolves based on what/who you eat. The music and visuals are gorgeous and the gameplay is great. Click here to play Flow.
Don't shoot the puppy!
Been ages since I've posted Flash games, but here's one - Mansion Impossible a rather nice little sim-game done in Flash. I got the link from M4 ages ago, but didn't get to check it out until now. I also finally had time to check out some of great links over at FWA.
I regularily submit cool findings to WellVetted.com but I feel that I surf the web too seldom these days. Not having seen sites such as YugoP's gallery browser (using the scrollwheel as primary nav) or cool animated portfolios like Stephane's makes me feel sort of "outdated". They've both been up for a long time, but I've been working too much lately. Gotta take the time for that, cause it keeps me inspired :)
BTW: There's also a neat new resource-site on Flash games in the form of a Wiki.
Great game where you recover your MP3 files that have been stolen by pirates. Really fluent motion/controls, several good ideas and great looking graphics. A nice version of a classic shooter.
Not really, but a fun trip down memory lane. This version is only selected sound and graphic bits put together into a new "Starcraftish" game. I remember playing the original Starcraft so much that my girlfriend (now wife) thought I was insane. So many nights... Interesting to note that the game is still available in stores - 7 years (!) after the release. I guess good games never die, they just become cheaper?
I'm keeping my eye on Starcraft: Ghost (the follow-up). It has taken a really long time to get that game out. Blizzard is known for taking it's time and with the success of WarCraft - they can afford it too. Blizzard have a totally different attitude than most other companies when it comes to shipping games. The last 3 games I bought was more or less unplayable without updates. That says a lot about how the gaming business work these days. Blizzard is an exception that actually finishes the games before shipping them, and that's one of the reasons gamers keep buying their games. Latest news says Ghost will be released early 2006. It'll not be anything like the original, but looks really good and it's based on the same stories.
(from M4)
Glen Rhodes has written an almost complete Wolfenstein-copy (you shoot, but take no damage). This game and Andre Michelle's 3D experiments (try the one called "mode7_1") really shows how fast the new bitmap engine in Flash 8 is when coded properly. Andre's engine goes well beyond the Wolfenstein clone and adds Camera roll, height and even Focal controls - all at amazing speed (with fewer objects, but way better looks). If you are serious about making games, you should check his OS Project GamePackage. I recently used it for a game and it rocks performance-wise, though the documentation was sparse. With Flash 8 optimizations, it'll be much faster still.
PS: Seems like Glen Rhodes got too much traffic after this got blogged. He now demands registration to try the game?
Simple but very playable new game from Kerb: EasyCruice. Be the Captain and dock your Ocean Liner in the Caribean. Be careful when you navigate so you don't ruin the Port and surrounding objects...
Snowy is a classic platform game (and also the nickname of one of my colleagues). The gameplay is brilliant. With professional animation, sound and well produced levels. A little Flashgaming Gem.
Just saw a link to this game today and started thinking back at all the wasted hours... Motherload is a brilliant game and it will take you quite some time to finish it off. I must have spent 2-3 days or so playing it :)
Kerb is among my favorite makers of Flash games. Often politically incorrect and always entertaining. Here's one of their new games: Playstation Pinball. Cool use of "physics" in Flash. They did a game for a computer manufacturer some time ago, but that one had only 5 levels. This one seems longer and some of the levels can have you pondering quite some time...
Great track by the Chemical Brothers and cool use of Flash video in a game!
Play here
Here's a brilliant idea: http://www.planarity.net/. Rearrange the dots to avoid the lines from touching...
Physics in games is an interesting topic. There's no such thing as physics in a computer, so it's up to the programmer to make things look good/believable. Here's a site with a bunch of physics-based games: http://www.teagames.com/
The phyics here are often far from "correct", but most of the games are well done.
Not quite a Flash-game, but totally brilliant! I'm really not a metal fan at all, but this is fun! From starting out as a slightly strange "learn to play guitar"-thing, then converting to a "story mode" ending up in a really cool showdown. The use and integration of sound here is really brilliant, possibly the best I've ever heard.