White Dwarf game
January 11, 2008 6:20 PM   Subscribe

 
I foresee a lot of quietly wasted time on my part.
posted by Countess Elena at 6:23 PM on January 11, 2008


Mmmm. I thought this was one of those cliche "grab the green balls, avoid the red ones!!!1" until I noticed the red balls bending towards the cursor. That was cool.

Thanks.
posted by Oxydude at 6:35 PM on January 11, 2008


It's fun.

It does seem to fall into that trap of not being relentless enough from the beginning. (A lot of puzzle games do this.) As it is, I'm bored and numb by the time it gets interesting.
posted by pokermonk at 6:53 PM on January 11, 2008


Bah, my score was always around 50k. I suck.

kidding!
posted by treepour at 7:15 PM on January 11, 2008


This is fun. Thank you.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:20 PM on January 11, 2008


Ah, smeg, I suck.
posted by infinitewindow at 7:26 PM on January 11, 2008 [3 favorites]


bad news is, i'm terrible at video games, even seemingly not-that-hard-looking ones like this.

good news is, i'm ok with that.
posted by facetious at 7:37 PM on January 11, 2008


Mmmm. I thought this was one of those cliche "grab the green balls, avoid the red ones!!!1" until I noticed the red balls bending towards the cursor. That was cool.

The growing cluster and banking of points are a nice touches, too. It actually adds some strategy instead of relying solely on reflexes.
posted by Gary at 7:54 PM on January 11, 2008


More gravity-based flash games please!
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:54 PM on January 11, 2008


I like collecting as many green bubbles as possible before banking. Try to fill up the whole screen with them!
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:57 PM on January 11, 2008


Noooo.

I was so going to post this. Then I decided I was never going to play it again ever and was instead going to deliberately forget the URL. So, uh, thanks.
posted by motty at 8:00 PM on January 11, 2008


Whoa, it's three games in ONE!
posted by Mister Cheese at 8:21 PM on January 11, 2008


This game discriminates against people who are colour blind... kidding. Loved it!
posted by hadjiboy at 10:00 PM on January 11, 2008


~6600 high score so far . I like the randomization aspect, how you can suddenly find yourself in the middle of a shitstorm of red. Thanks!
posted by agentofselection at 11:16 PM on January 11, 2008


Definitely takes too long to kick into high gear. Got 170,346,800 on my first try at least! Okay, okay, on Avoid mode. Scoring is a BIT easier there it seems.
posted by Stunt at 11:24 PM on January 11, 2008


Super fun - 7784 my score
@stunt - what is avoid mode?
posted by friedbeef at 12:25 AM on January 12, 2008


On the left there's a selection for modes. Original is the most fun, but avoid is pretty much what it sounds like (just try to avoid touching anything at all).
posted by Stunt at 1:01 AM on January 12, 2008


Okay, I found a way to make this game way more exciting. I got like 6600 or so my first try, and this second try (I got bored after the first earlier) I grabbed as many green things as I could without touching a blue. 7442 or something when I finally decided to touch a blue.

Feels way riskier and complicated this way, and it seems that I might be able to get ridiculously high scores. So far, however, I have also gotten negative scores in the thousands this way. woo.
posted by Stunt at 1:06 AM on January 12, 2008


Noooo.

I was so going to post this. Then I decided I was never going to play it again ever and was instead going to deliberately forget the URL. So, uh, thanks.


And to kick you while your down: You just lost The Game.
posted by parallax7d at 2:47 AM on January 12, 2008


Yeah, for a new game mode, try to see how far into the negative you can go, avoiding both blue and red dots. I just got -11025. Nice game.
posted by Jimbob at 4:49 AM on January 12, 2008


You can't tell someone else they lost the game. That's not how the game works.
posted by The Monkey at 5:46 AM on January 12, 2008


PokerMonk: "I'm bored and numb by the time it gets interesting"

By the time it gets interesting, I fail.

Parallax7d: "And to kick you while your down: You just lost The Game."

WILL YOU CUT THAT OUT!!?

TheMonkey: "You can't tell someone else they lost the game. That's not how the game works."

Huh? That's exactly how the game works! LOL!
posted by ZachsMind at 7:04 AM on January 12, 2008


Woah. I didn't know this was happening in Wikipedia. Now that's funny!
posted by ZachsMind at 7:15 AM on January 12, 2008


I guess the months and months of playing Geometry Wars Evolved actually helped with something.
posted by JakeEXTREME at 7:23 AM on January 12, 2008


you can suddenly find yourself in the middle of a shitstorm of red

which, in a twist of irony, can be resolved by hitting The Blue.
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:00 AM on January 12, 2008


Ah. I get it! Strategically hitting a blue makes all the greens go away. I definitely survive a lot longer now.
posted by ZachsMind at 8:38 AM on January 12, 2008


This is even funner to play on Wii via their internet browser
posted by princeofpersiaxz at 1:40 PM on January 12, 2008


I got up around 15000, but this is after I had a sizeable cluster of greens and I hit a red in my fruitless pursuit of a blue.
posted by tehloki at 1:23 PM on January 13, 2008


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