This year marks a decade of
Strong Bad Emails, sent from Strong Bad's desk. Next to his computer sits a box of
floppy discs, often displaying game titles. If you missed those titles, the detail-oriented
Homestar Runner wiki (
previously)
provides game titles, summaries, and links. Many of the games are old computer games like
Rise of the Dragon or
Miner 2049er, and some titles are linked to
Lord_Pall's
revived Home of the Underdogs abandonware game archive. Other games have links to
the Videlectrix catalog, where you can see
box art and
play some demos. Or you can go back to the Homestar Runner wiki, and go to the list of
playable Videlectrix titles, like
50k Racewalker (
play online)
Polulation: Tire (
play online) or
Peasant's Quest (
play online) (More previous stuff:
Peasant's Quest and
Where's An Egg?).
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 1, 2011 -
83 comments
Freaky Friday Flash Fun, Flatting Flies:
Insectonator is a top-down shooter. Well, "shooter" is a stretch; this is more of "stomp, drop things, overkill with naplam" attack on pretty much every homeowner's nightmare: a bunch of crawly bugs in the dark that avoid the flashlight.
The bugs don't shoot back, so the game is just an endurance test by the player. And there are two awards for actually sticking around long enough. Weapons include a rock, your boot, various guns (including sniper rifles), rocket launchers, an anvil, naplam, and finally, a nuclear weapon.
Via the ever excellent
Jay Is Games.
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Apr 1, 2011 -
7 comments
Remember
Worms? Well,
Funky Pear (the guys who made playing golf in space fun) has another version of that, but the worms are replaced with guys in space suits, and the landscape is now a small planetary system. Use gravity to sling your rockets around planets, and build up the damage multiplier.
Play Gravitee Wars. Warning: addictive.
[more inside]
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Nov 12, 2010 -
20 comments
Flash Friday:
Mardek 3 is an rpg similar in style and length to the Final Fantasy or Earthbound games from the SNES days. But that's not all!
[more inside]
posted by Lemurrhea
on Jul 16, 2010 -
11 comments
The winners of the Independent Game Festival Awards
were announced last night. A few winners are playable now: the awesome
Max and the Magic Marker won the Vision award with its whimsical drawing-based action;
Closure, featuring creepy light-based puzzles, won for sound design;
Continuity, a student-created puzzling platform game. Big winners
Monaco and the visually stunning
Limbo are only available in video form now, but are worth a look anyway.
[Closure and Continuity are in Flash; Max is in Unity, but worth it]
posted by blahblahblah
on Mar 12, 2010 -
6 comments
Friday Flash Fun*:
Конструктор: Engineer of the People, in which you are an engineer working in a top-secret semiconductor facility called H3, designing top-secret integrated circuits based on specifications provided to you.
*For certain values of 'fun'
posted by daniel_charms
on Mar 27, 2009 -
36 comments
Nano War: Infectious Flash Fun. Colonize blobs, send swarms, and win superior numbers. Free multi-player and level editor. Dangerously addictive.
[more inside]
posted by The Whelk
on Dec 5, 2008 -
24 comments
Flash Friday Fun with
Splitter. Cut things to solve puzzles. Sort of a destructive Incredible Machine.
posted by Lord_Pall
on Oct 31, 2008 -
26 comments
Did you like
Spy Hunter? Then you'll probably like
The Heist, for even more Friday Flash Fun! It's a similar vertical scroller, but you lose points when you hit cars (if you destroy cop cars, you add points.)
posted by schyler523
on Oct 24, 2008 -
15 comments
Flash
Friday Fun:
Maze Stopper 2, help your character reach the flag first by placing obstacles for your opponent(s). You are scored by how much faster you are than your opponent. There is a "Freeze" tool to make placing obstacles easier.
There is a walkthrough for when you get stuck, and if you're anything like me you will.
posted by schyler523
on Sep 11, 2008 -
11 comments
Friday Flash Fun:
Switch is a game where you are collecting black and white balls. The catch? If you are collecting the black balls, you can't touch the white balls and vice versa. You can, however, switch colors by clicking. In later levels there is an alien that enjoys trading.
Enjoy!
posted by schyler523
on Aug 8, 2008 -
11 comments
Fearless Fightin' Flash Fun for Friday:
Robokill is a demo that recalls the overhead action of
SMASH TV - though this time, you're placed in the metal shoes of a lowly salvage bot, sent to decimate your mechanical brethren who commandeered an orbital outpost. As you clear the halls for the benefit of some lazy humans, you can trade supplies and armaments with an alien merchant who mistakes
you for one of Earth's fleshbags. It's a thankless job, sure, but you're supposed to be a remorseless machine...
[via]
posted by Smart Dalek
on May 30, 2008 -
33 comments
Fun Flash Friday:
Throw Me - throw the little guy as far as you can. Avoid the thunderclouds. Use the wrecking balls and colored clouds for an extra boost. Simple as that.
posted by champthom
on Apr 4, 2008 -
20 comments
Grid16 for your Flash Friday consideration. Turn up the sound, tune your game reflexes to maximum, and enjoy a wide variety of games at the same time!
posted by DreamerFi
on Feb 22, 2008 -
34 comments
FFF via
Phit.
Yeah, it's stolen from Digg, but that's a good thing. I read Digg so you don't have to.
posted by humblepigeon
on Jun 29, 2007 -
28 comments
DEVPLL offers you tons of flash games to while away the hours. Try your hand at the logical games they offer like
Hidden where your cursor disappears as you make your way through a simple maze or
Paths 2 where a steady hand is your best asset.
posted by inconsequentialist
on Mar 9, 2007 -
2 comments
Fields of Logic is a nice little game for Flash Friday that involves... Turning around televisions in a field. According to some obscure logic rules that you've gotta figure out as you go.
posted by Vamier
on Jan 19, 2007 -
25 comments
It's Flash Friday, but surprisingly no one's mentioned this yet. Since you seem to be
fans of Orisinal's work, I thought it prudent to point out that he's put up a new game just in time for the holidays.
So, let's go play some
Winterbells, shall we?
posted by revmitcz
on Dec 8, 2006 -
21 comments
Graphic novels without words are the silent movies of the printed page. Now, the inestimable and erudite
vacapinta first directed us to the father of the genre, one
Frans Masereel. Up to recently, the most notable of Masereel's successors was
Lynd Ward, whose most famous work was
God's Man, subtitled
A Novel in Woodcuts. Here are some more
plates from
God's Man for sale. Yet more plates can be found, along with a bad midi, at the Texas based
Woodcuts - Lynn Ward: Gods' Man. And here are some
illustrations from Georgetwon University's Lauinger Library September 2001 exhibit
Lvnd Ward as Illustrator. Here, also, is
Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary - Lynd Ward. And here is his
Madman's Drum in its entirety. But now we have a contemporary working in the same vein--
Eric Drooker.
More inside
posted by y2karl
on Aug 4, 2006 -
22 comments
TORK! For your friday flash fun, a game about...linguistics? Learn a language, have some fun. Now if only I could figure out how to work that damn oven....
posted by jearbear
on Mar 25, 2005 -
31 comments
