Synopsis Quest - humorous, if you played 8/16 bit RPGs. One or two of these really annoyed me, but I finished them


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And I don't know why they made the game so small. It's tiny on my 30" monitor. Thank goodness Chrome will zoom in on flash elements. That's pretty cool. Don't know if other browsers do...

This Is the Only Level Too. More of the same. This one seems a little easier.

Bloons Super Monkey - Seems pretty silly at first, but quickly gets pretty challenging. I could only get to stage 3, wave 2

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And man oh man do I get discouraged when I see other people's scores. I got 36,052 points, today's high score is 308,413, and the all time high score is 22,167,920.

I played through that twice in a row when it came out. Can't recall my score. Just played through it again with a high score of 106,417. I've never failed to complete it, however. Are you upgrading? I think upgrade path plays a huge role in success.

That could definitely be the case. How do you usually go? Do you upgrade one thing throughout, or do a mix? I was trying to do a mix. I also sense that my strategy is not as good as it could be.

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I'm definitely not upgrading correctly, and I think that has the most to do with it. One game I tried ONLY upgrading the darts, and I lasted two about 3 waves. This last time I tried upgrading more strategically, and got to the laser beams

Well, you want to optimize your bloon popping ability. Double darts is a big help, but expensive. This last run I started with one lightning and then moved to the boomerang, then to the double darts. I think double before boomerang might be better, though. I definitely spread it out.

Okay, I'll try that the next time. I got much further the last time, but despite my best efforts I still couldn't pop enough bloons, even though I thought I was right on in my flying.

Here's a little unusual flash game post.

First, there's an xkcd comic.

Then, someone actually made a flash game based on it!

Haha - very good. Although I couldn't get past level one...

:-)

Penguins Attack 2 - I'm always a fan of tower defense games. This one seems a little too much on the difficult side to me, but maybe I'm just not playing right...

Monster Evolution - kind of easy, and the controls are a bit stiff, but still pretty fun and appealing to the Rampage lover inside of you.

Torus: Another Tetris-alike, the difference here being that instead of being a bordered plane, you can cross from one side to the other, and lap pieces over the border. Oh, and there's no border, because it's actually presented in 3d!

It's really a simple version, but, niftily, it is not implemented in Flash or Java, but all in totally standards-based HTML5. Which means that you'll need a modern browser to run it: pretty much any current-release browser except IE8. (It might run there, but I doubt it, and I haven't checked.)

Um...I love the concept, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I get the initial menu up, I choose New Game, it tells me to use the arrow keys and enter. I press enter and it takes me back to the main menu. The furthest I've been able to get is by turning tutorials off, then I can get to the character select screen, but pressing enter on any of the characters does nothing...

"Press Z to select a character"

Odd, I tried the game again, and I got that message. It wasn't working last night. Like I said, until I turned off the tutorials, I couldn't even get past the main menu.

Hands of War - In case anyone wanted a flash game RPG that will immediately suck hours of their life away. I thought "hey, I'll check this out for a bit," and two hours later I seriously need to start my day, but I can't break away from this thing despite the bad visuals and occasionally awkward controls.

Enough Plumbers - Pretty fun gameplay, though I can't seem to get past level 13...

Give up, Robot - Do you like epileptic seizures and grappling hooks? If so, try this game out! Plus it has a GLaDOS-esque voice taunting you whenever you die. 42 and 50 (the last one) were the hardest for me.

Here's my scores the first time through:
Time:
39:01.88
Score:
18,594,870

Gluey - This one was a little more relaxing at first, and by now you know how I love Tetris variants, but there were a few levels that started jacking up the difficulty big-time. Levels 1-9 were a walk in the park for me, but then I must have played level 10 at least 25 times before I just barely got enough points to go on. Finally, I just gave up on level 16

Ah, that was the last level. Beating that unlocks the zen level.

Darn! Maybe I was just tired from Give Up, Robot. I'll give it another try sometime.

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Ah, there we go. Took me about 12 tries that time to beat 16. Level 10 is still annoying to me, though.

Still haven't got past 16, and I have tried about 20 times - keep getting close!

Must try give up robot, but it is 24 degrees outside, so not just now!

Gem Grab - A fun puzzle game. I like how it changes things up a little every few levels. It really starts tricking you late in the game...

Age of War 2 - sort of a tower defense game, but different. I quite enjoyed this one. A little difficult at first, especially on easy mode, but towards the end I was like two civilizations ahead of the computer. This would be fun two player game.

Soccer Balls - has nothing to do with soccer (or football) It's pretty fun, though. At first it looks like a Gorillas clone, but it's really not. You're just trying to hit the ref with the ball. At first I was holding the mouse button down to get harder kicks, thinking that my score depended on how hard I hit the ref, but holding it down doesn't do anything, and you just have to tap the ref with the ball to make his head explode

Is it just me, or did Gem Grab turn into nothing more than a version of "Operation!", just trying to not touch the edges?

Did you go through the whole game trying to not touch the walls with the gem? If so, kudos to you, because that must make it very challenging!

You can slam that gem against any surface as hard as you want.

No, I was talking about the levels with the spots that create or delete a wall. It seemed like it was getting to the point where the puzzles weren't any harder, but they only gave you a few pixels to eke the gem through, and if you touched the wall, it would twist the gem and push it into the activation spot. So it got to be, for me, move a pixel, arrow to rotate the cube, move a pixel, arrow to rotate the cube, move a pixel, arrow to rotate the cube, flash hangs up and it rotates it 45°, making me have to start over.

Interesting. I didn't have that experience at all. There are definitely levels, though, where there is more than one solution to the puzzle.

Yeah - I quite liked Gem Grab but it was for me a very fast game, with too many levels a quick 'lift up something, then fling the gem through a gap before gravity makes it impossible' sort of idea