Acorns From An Okie » Games

An Edgy New Game

Allen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:56:04 +0000

Remove the overlapping edges in this great game: Planarity

Called High Delivery, you must collect flowers in a bottle. You use a fan to blow a balloon around to collect the flowers and then eventually drop them off at their intended destination.

The “competition” of placing the balloon the optimal location coupled with the wonderful soundtrack is what sets this game apart. Of course, noting the wonderful soundtrack in an Orisinal game is rather redundant. The intended destination is the final graceful note to the game.

In the end, the game notes how may flowers were delivered. I would have perhaps said that the flowers were returned, not delivered. After all, from where were the flowers coming in the first place?

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Allen — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:59:35 +0000

BBC now has online a flashed-up version of the old Infocom game Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

[Via BoingBoingBlog]

Forget the Silence of the Lambs

Allen — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:49:14 +0000

Let’s talk about the Tragedy of the Bunnies. A great Flash-based game that illustrates quite well the concept known as the “Tragedy of the Commons.”

[Via batesline.com]

Friday Flash Fun

Allen — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:13:37 +0000

More Trashcan Basketball

The sound-track sounds like something out of the early 80s. Garrggh!

PixelField

Allen — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:02:20 +0000

Cool new game: PixelField.

Momentum is your enemy, or your friend.

Are You Enough of a Blue Platypus?

Allen — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:58:57 +0000

To get the water flowing again to the small dusty Australian town of Chasmton?

Find out.

And if you get stuck, sometimes a map comes in handy.

[Via Dave Barry]

Use The Force

Allen — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:23:00 +0000

PlayNo Circles, a flash based games with no rules. Part of the game is to figure out the rules.

[Via Metafilter]

Fly the Wire Game

Allen — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:06:51 +0000

I guess today is gaming Friday for me. Found another cool game that you can play online. Click on http://kmb.com.hk/chi/wonder/finaleasy0110.swf to play a game similar to the “guide the character around the wire and the buzzer will sound if you touch one of the wires”. Not a very nifty title, but there you go.

[Via MetaFilter]

Retro64 Computer Games

Allen — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:17:01 +0000

Found a new site with downloadable games via Dean’s World. Click on Retro64 Computer Games to see their full suite of game goodies.

I’ve just sampled two of them. One, Marbles Deluxe, is supposedly a remake of the Marbles game for the Amiga. As a current owner of one of the original Amiga 500s, I remember more vividly Marble Madness with a totally different gamefeel. (Note to self: Sell the Amiga) However, this game is still pretty cool with lots of brain puzzlers.

However, my favorite, like Dean, is Platypus. It is a claymation-based side-scroller shoot-em-up. Each graphic was hand molded in clay, so the graphics have a warm, rounded feel to them.