Tag: FLASH GAME

Finding Time Wasters to blog about should be considered a high-risk activity. While there's no doubt that it's a fun way to spend our time, the truth is that our productivity takes a serious hit every time we start testing out possibilities for inclusion as daily time wasters. Some are worse than others in this regard, but recently Blocky has been stealing a ridiculous amount of our time. Like ...

Bloxorz is a game with a silly name, but great gameplay. While there are millions of puzzle games out there, few come close to matching the fun and challenge of Tetris. Though Bloxorz does. Now, to be perfectly clear, Bloxorz is not a Tetris clone. In fact, the gameplay in Bloxorz couldn't be more different. The Tetris comparision is simply to point out that we think the game is that good, ...

Who doesn't like a quick little Flash distraction? The more addictive the better, I say. Paper Pilot delivers, on both counts. In Paper Pilot, you get the chance to pick from three different paper airplane designs, then modify the weight of the paper, the amount of lift created by wing flaps, and whether or not to include "winglets" on the sides of the wings. Once you've designed your ...

The 1982 Disney sci-fi adventure Tron can be credited for turning many a pimply arcade geek into software developing gods... At least that's the way we like to think about it. Many great things came from Tron, if you follow our logic, but only one of them is today's time waster, Flash Tron. For anyone who remembers the Light Cycle races in Tron, which took place deep within the heart of an evil ...

I'm completely amazed that you can build a game with the quality of Hewitt in Flash. The developers, Casper Smith and C. Gianelloni, spent a year coding and animating Hewitt and it's readily apparent. This is a rich and long point and click adventure game that'll keep you tied up for quite a while. Hewitt is a geek. In a dream one night he sees himself as an old man, who tells him that he'll ...

I love quick time wasters, and this one fits that bill perfectly. catchThirtyThree is almost more fun if you don't know what the objective is when you first try it, but since that wouldn't make much of a blog post, I'll tell you what it's about. For those of you that don't want me to ruin the surprise, here's the link. For the rest of you, here's the deal. In catchThirtyThree, your objective is ...

Today's time-waster is similar in design to Dodge and Squares. In Ellipsis you are the center circle, and you are trying to defend yourself against the squares. You destroy the squares by clicking on them. If you don't get to a square in time and it hits your circle you lose power. The circles power starts at 100, giving you 100 times to get hit before the game is over. Occasionally smaller ...

When I was in high school I used to play Dots with friends during lectures, on the bus, during lunch... anytime there was a lot of sitting involved and I didn't want to pay attention, which was the bulk of high school. When I found this flash version of the game I was addicted to it once again.. Playing Dots is simple. You have several rows of dots on a piece of paper. You and a friend (or in this ...

Today's Time Waster is a flash game called BowMaster Prelude where you take control of an archer with magical arrows, and attempt to defeat oncoming armies. As you level up, you gain the ability to purchase better weapons like advanced arrows, as well as the ability to summon your own warriors. If you're struggling with repetitive stress pain in your mousing hand, this game is probably not for ...

Online games fall into all sorts of categories, and unfortunately many of them don't fall into one called "fun". That's certainly not the case with Sling, and online Flash physics-based game that is ridiculously addictive. Sling is a little dude that you control - he's basically just a head and a single hand on a stretchy arm. For such a modest little guy, he's got quite a job - nothing short of ...

Just the other day we were bouncing ideas around for the "next big game-to-movie franchise" and I happened to blurt out Burger Time, the classic arcade game. What game was more perfect to sit in your mom-and-pop skating rink than Burger Time? I mean, here's a game that entices you to a) put in more quarters, and b) eat more burgers. Awesome! Well it worked on me apparently, ...

There's a familiar tune with Flash games, where you take a familiar or classic game and put your spin on it. Alien Terminator does that, and I guess it's lineage could be traced to Tempest. It's the old, aliens are invading, so blast 'em routine, but your missiles aren't direct. They spiral downward, hitting your mouse-driven targeting system with some delay. It's really quite mesmerizing to ...