Tag: PLATFORMER

Armor Games is publishing a fan-made re-creation of Valve's incredibly popular game Portal as 2-D puzzle platformer called Portal - the Flash Version, and it's awesome. The concept is the same; you have an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD) that you can use to create blue and yellow portals that are connected. Objects passing into one portal, including yourself, emerge from the other ...

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before. Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the ...

Everyone loves free games. If you're looking for a deal on some usually-for-pay games, check out Appvent Calendar by Blacksmith games. It's like an advent calendar, but with iPhone apps, get it? Okay, so we're a little late reporting it, but we've only missed 3 days; there are still 21 to go. The games offered should be a healthy mix of well known and not so well known ones. The first three ...

Tower of Greed is (mostly) a standard platform game, except that the screen scrolls upward instead of side-to-side as you climb the titular Tower. The "greed" part is because the object of the game is to amass as many gems as you can on your way to the top. There are enemies and power-ups along the way, but you can't stop climbing until you find an exit, or you'll lose the game. Exits appear on ...

I've seen a ton of Tetris variants in my day, and Tetris'd is a wild one. It's not even a puzzle game: it's a platformer, with Tetris blocks as the platforms. You play a tiny, acrobatic person (a ninja, maybe?) who can jump and climb on the blocks as they fall, and the object is to survive for as long as possible without getting squished or falling off the board. The controls are tricky: there ...

The platform game, centered on running and jumping action, has been around so long that's it tough to introduce new innovation to the genre. Push is a Flash game that manages to twist platform conventions by introducing a force field effect that you can use to push part of the terrain and clear a path for your character. The controls are a bit difficult to manage, and the graphics are very basic, ...

Mirror's Edge is a successful 3D first-person platformer where players take control of Faith, a runner who's job is to transmit messages without garnering the ire of government surveillance. If you're not familiar with the franchise, it doesn't really matter; Mirror's Edge 2D is still a fantastic 2D flash game based on Mirror's Edge. In the 2D version, you control Faith by using keyboard keys to ...

In Closure, if you can see it, you can walk on it. The trick is to illuminate your path all the way to a door through which you exit each level. The sketchy, hand-drawn imagery is incredibly cool. It's not as easy as picking up a light and walking around with it. You'll have to figure out where and when to place lights to navigate safely through each trial. Certain objects mirror your light ...

Ok, I filed this under "fun," but once you give it a shot you might disagree with me. I Wanna Be The Guy may be the most frustrating, hair-pulling game you ever play. As the developer states on one of his Zazzle shirts, it's "The game where everything kills you. Even the moon." Within the first couple of minutes, I'd died more times than I cared to count, and that's the point. My poor keyboard ...

"What did you do for Memorial Day, Jordan?" "Oh, I played Within a Deep Forest." That's how addicting this little devil of a game is. Within a Deep Forest is a freeware platformer for Windows that casts you as a little bouncing ball whose mission is to stop the evil Dr. Cliché from freezing the world. But don't let the cutesy premise fool you: this is a hard game. Its many puzzles will test ...