Flash friday game

July 15, 2005 8:39 PM

Beautiful, hypnotic flash game from Amanita Design. Guide the little guy to the end of his journey..........
posted by lee (37 comments total)

We've seen this before, but it's always fun to revisit. The same group did a similar adventure for the Polyphonic Spree.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:53 PM on July 15, 2005

Well, it's been posted before, but you're right monju, this is a great game! Thanks lee (and thanks for all the little hints from the previous comments too). I wasted precious time making the lil guy go home. Excellent!
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 9:57 PM on July 15, 2005

A similar game, although much more basic and not nearly as wonderful as Samorost.
posted by Ljubljana at 10:11 PM on July 15, 2005

I'm wasting an awful lot of little sheep-like creatures here, and the poor little guy is still just sitting on the roof.
posted by trip and a half at 10:17 PM on July 15, 2005

Trip, sometimes when life gets you down, you just gotta take a moment and catch a fish or two...
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 10:20 PM on July 15, 2005

Thanks, DeepFried, but the fish has been caught and smoked, and I'm afraid the geckos have done away with the fisherman by now! And the poor little guy is still perched on the roof, forlornly waving his little arm...
posted by trip and a half at 10:24 PM on July 15, 2005

I'm stuck with the guy with the hookah, smoked it all or not, placed the wire on the pulley, the grass pickers will stand up, one of them walks and comes back, and the push button on the lock box pushes, that's it...
posted by nervousfritz at 10:26 PM on July 15, 2005

Stunning. Simply stunning.

And for the folks who are stuck: just keep clicking stuff. You'll get there in the end.
posted by MrMustard at 10:30 PM on July 15, 2005

fritz, sometimes a hookah is not just a hookah, even when it's been discarded.
posted by trip and a half at 10:34 PM on July 15, 2005

And trip, sometimes a giant bird carrying a fish skeleton isn't a just a giant bird. Happy clicking!
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 10:38 PM on July 15, 2005

Yeah, now I'm feeding the anteater.
posted by trip and a half at 10:47 PM on July 15, 2005

Hurray! Disaster averted. Thanks for the ride, lee.
posted by trip and a half at 11:00 PM on July 15, 2005

I'm still trying to break 50 pts on that Ritz "Cornhole" game from earlier.
posted by First Post at 11:03 PM on July 15, 2005

Ugh. The buttons are broken. Sigh!
posted by Citizen Premier at 11:45 PM on July 15, 2005

K nevermind I saved the world. Er, flying tree stump.
posted by Citizen Premier at 11:48 PM on July 15, 2005

if you guys dig your point&click'in, be sure to check out

lazylaces' archive

I especially recommend The White Chamber, but be warned: do not play this on drugs at night alone in the house in the dark with headphones :)
posted by spacediver at 11:54 PM on July 15, 2005

One person's flying tree stump is another person's friday distraction.
posted by taursir at 12:10 AM on July 16, 2005

cool, got it, thanks trip
posted by nervousfritz at 12:14 AM on July 16, 2005

It's a beautiful game and it was voted by art historians one of the 100 icons of Czech design in the past 100 years.

This is the only article with some pictures I can find, but those of you who are in Europe might get a chance to see the exhibition in UK or Germany.

This appears to be the website of the organizers and, by chance, it opens with the Samorost game.
posted by Laotic at 2:58 AM on July 16, 2005

I have to stop playing this now... got the little guy passed the owl and the gnome in the tree...
posted by Corky at 3:14 AM on July 16, 2005

Completed, lovely lovely stuff.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:39 AM on July 16, 2005

Just finished! What a wonderful little game. Nice puzzles that are satisfying and not too devilish. Wonderfully kind sensibility. Beautifully produced. It may have been a repost, but I'd never have found it, so I'm glad it was here today. Thanks.
posted by Miko at 6:11 AM on July 16, 2005

Wonderfully kind sensibility

'cept for those sheep.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:22 AM on July 16, 2005

here's to not giving up!
posted by moonbird at 7:33 AM on July 16, 2005

Free of any context, your posts look very, very silly.
posted by redteam at 11:00 AM on July 16, 2005

It's supposed to be silly, it is a game!
Thanks guys for not abusing about the double post.
posted by lee at 11:32 AM on July 16, 2005

www.nordinho.com is another great source for point and click games.
posted by Samsonov14 at 1:32 PM on July 16, 2005

this one is pretty cool too:
http://hanamushi.under.jp/flash/poc01.htm
posted by juv3nal at 1:53 PM on July 16, 2005

For cheaters only. ...like me. =)
posted by ZachsMind at 2:27 PM on July 16, 2005

We have had a lot of fun with this one at our house, thanks.
posted by caddis at 6:45 PM on July 16, 2005

juv3nal: that one is a blast! thanks. I almost gave up against that evil dragon/wizard guy, but I finally handed it to him!
posted by trip and a half at 7:05 PM on July 16, 2005

Haven't played Samorost in a while...thanks for the reminder...it goes on "the List."

I'm having spine surgery Tuesday...I think I'll have a few moments on my hands where distraction may be the better part of pain relief.

If anyone has any more links to these types of games, I'd appreciate the post. Thanks.
posted by Dunvegan at 9:05 PM on July 16, 2005

Chasm, Hapland, and Hapland 2 are three of my favorites. I hope you have a speedy recovery, Dunvegan.
posted by joedan at 10:44 AM on July 17, 2005

Chasm was awesome. I didn't like the Haplands as much.

Ditto the speedy recovery, Dunvegan. Don't get up too fast though. Make sure you give yourself at least a day where you think you're healed up but nobody else knows it yet, so you can get people to wait on you and bring you stuff while you're healthy enough to appreciate bossing them around. =)
posted by ZachsMind at 12:11 PM on July 17, 2005

Good luck, and good healing energy, Dunvegan. And, yes! More cool game links, everybody.

99 rooms is a visually nice one that I think was linked here before.
posted by taz at 2:11 AM on July 18, 2005

Thank you...thank you all...for contributing to many hours of diversion ahead...what a perfect prescription. :D
posted by Dunvegan at 3:17 AM on July 18, 2005

What a beautifully rendered game, even if I can't get it to do anything.

Dunvegan-good luck, and come through smiling.
posted by OmieWise at 7:22 AM on July 18, 2005