Comments on: Bugs

Bugs

ND¢ — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:50:37 -0800

Bugs. Orisinal has been linked to several times, but this game was so fun that I had to share. NQFFF: Not Quite Friday Flash Fun.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:53:21 -0800

Bugs is one of my all-time favorite Orisinal games, even though it's the newest. Just joyful.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:57:03 -0800

I couldn't figure out how to play that one. The "bubble" looked more like a spreading pool of urine. I tried to drown the bugs in my urine but wasn't able to score any points that way. I gave up.

By: freebird

freebird — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:57:49 -0800

Orisinal is a distance-blurred pastel butterfly, chiming and burbling gently as it fluttersby bubbles and stars and birds and the garden that is the MeFi frontpage. It may visit repeatedly, but it always lands on different flowers, and brings good cheer on it's lovingly patterned wings.

By: Gator

Gator — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:13:58 -0800

Orisinal is a nice site, but the browser-resizing, not so much.

By: maxsparber

maxsparber — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:24:04 -0800

The music for this one makes me want to go to a Renaissance Faire, and that can't be forgiven.

By: modernerd

modernerd — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:42:09 -0800

calming and enjoyable if brief.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:46:01 -0800

I couldn't figure out how to play that one. Use the bubbles to jump, the size of your bubble affects the height of your jump, which chases away more bugs. If you or your bubble gets hit by a bug, you lose a life. Grab the green power-up to make your bubble invincible. 20 bugs is the most you can get with one jump (I think). First saw this one on the wonderful Jay Is Flash games blog.. Orisinal? Not so much for me. Pop Pirates? Yes. (despite the sponsor).

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:52:46 -0800

calming and enjoyable if brief. posted by modernerd at 4:42 PM EST on December 29 That's what she said. Sorry.

By: painquale

painquale — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:02:36 -0800

I dunno. I quickly died twice, but then it seemed like I could go on indefinitely, so I got bored and quit. Does it get any harder?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:34:40 -0800

Sites like this remind me I need to set my js options to disallow window resizing in the advanced settings.

By: chrispy

chrispy — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:22:40 -0800

Just to second mrgrimm's recommendation for Pop Pirates. Incredibly addictive and really makes the heart race. (I do like the bugs game too though, I'll play it in the few moments I'm not playing Pop Pirates.)

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:15:28 -0800

Absolutely wonderful. One more reason I wish my PSP had flash implementation. ><

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:17:55 -0800

Something very zen about it. Still, after 2 minutes...

By: joegester

joegester — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:01:54 -0800

Beautiful but once I got the hang of it I could go on forever. Faster bugs or something would be good.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:51:37 -0800

Faster bugs are exactly what you get. It definitely gets harder. The bugs get faster and they start zeroing in on you. It just happens very, very gradually. Get near 100,000 points and then start over and the difference is extremely noticeable.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:13:33 -0800

I wish there was a way to get more lives...47530 was my highest.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:17:40 -0800

I got to about 99,000. I'm trying to break the high score list to give a MeFi shout out.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:51:27 -0800

I think one reason that I like this game, besides its inherent greatness (meh-ers be damned) is that it is so happy (notice the look of absolute childlike joy that flashes across the girl's face when she reaches the pinnacle of her jump. Of course, you can't blame her, jumping is fun. Go ahead and try it now. Jump as high as you can. Fun no?) especially compared to the other flash game that I have been playing obsessively this week (my boss is on vacation): De-Animator. Dark as hell, but truly a work of art. Discussed on Metafilter previously here. Also, Go Justinian. I want a shout out.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:52:58 -0800

110870 and I gave a shoutout to all my homies at MeFi.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:54:43 -0800

Note that you can control where you come down after you jump.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:55:09 -0800

Oh, to give an idea of the difficulty scale, on my last game I got to about 85,000 points on my first life, 105,000 on my second, and only got to 110870 before I lost. Obviously some of that was psychological since I knew I'd made the list but it does get much harder. I know the strategy that would get the high score but it would be too boring for me.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:59:00 -0800

Orsinal's astute reduction of our ready brain processes to a gameable set of tasks is so efficient that I almost wish for the NES days when games were dumb and you could win (with ease) by exploiting negligence in programming.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:46:18 -0800

I guess you could call this mind-numbingly fun.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:23:37 -0800

By: Justinian

Justinian — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:31:16 -0800

Curses! My Mefi 4ever!! has scrolled off the list. I will have to get back in the game.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:53:34 -0800

Don't worry playa, I got you.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:33:28 -0800

You're a better man than I, Gunga Din. I'm out. Peace.

By: spunk

spunk — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:20:41 -0800

no...didn't like it

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:12:34 -0800