Games
Friday Fun: Coign of Vantage
How’s your spatial awareness? Coign of Vantage is a cool game that requires you to make up an image by rotating a 3d cluster of pixels… sounds tricky, but is surprisingly intuitive. Give it a go.
Friday Fun: Balloon Invasion
Defend your territory against oncoming airships in Balloon Invasion.
Friday Fun: Golfing among the stars
Play golf among the planets with Gravitee. Time to start thinking all curvy :)
Friday Fun: Guitar Master
Unwind after a hard week by playing guitar online, on your keyboard - Guitar Hero stylee.
Friday Fun: Age of Conan
Griefing is bad, kids. OK? On the other hand, this is a hilarious video of someone making innovative use of his horse in Age of Conan. Er, no, I mean, it’s bad. Oh, just watch it.
Flash-based Fart-related Friday Fun
Utterly childish… but sometimes you need to be childish! Puzzlefarter is a platform game much like any other, except that you can boost your jumps by… well… farting.
Gaming in the TARDIS
MAME, the arcade machine emulator, allows you to play those old arcade games you remember from childhood. Simon Jansen built a MAME cabinet, but instead of a plain box he made it a bit more interesting.
Take a chill pill and click…
I know that I have lost countless hours (if not days) to a plethora of flash games from the simple to the complex. Well, now for something a bit more chilled. So for your pleasure I present a small selection of laid back games.
Friday Fun: MechQuest
MechQuest is a sci-fi RPG where you take on the role of a mech pilot engaged in war against an alien menace called the Shadowscythe.
A basic storyline and character development mechanic makes the game interesting to play, although I will admit that it gets a bit samey after a while.
Still, if you’re after a bit [...]
VirtualNES: Reliving Childhood Memories
Remember when the height of gaming technology was parallax scrolling? Or when you thought sound with three or four channels sounded absolutely amazing? How about when you had to use your imagination a bit because the graphics weren’t exactly photo-realistic?
My high-school years were around the same time as the Sega Master System and Nintendo Entertainment [...]
