On a Friday in the waning months of the 20th century, a Macromedia employee was getting ready to meet with the creator of Beavis & Butthead the next Monday to demonstrate Flash v.4's new feature, synchronized audio tracks – a feature he needed to learn over the weekend. So he put together the simplest model he could: a floating skull sans lips, tongue or physique. The meeting was postponed, so the employee continued to spitshine the animation and put it on his website. His friends e-mailed their friends, and soon, everyone met a heavy-metal animated floating skull demon and his adorable little devil pal. Sparks had created Radiskull, who will kill you one by one. (Atom) [more inside]
posted by MikeHarris on Dec 22, 2009 - 31 comments

Christmas Mini Room Escape Game III. A light-hearted diversion from the work that you're ignoring this week anyway. [more inside]
posted by ixohoxi on Dec 22, 2009 - 33 comments

"Every Day The Same Dream," via the Experimental Gameplay Project
posted by brundlefly on Dec 21, 2009 - 37 comments

Space Ace is the best Flash game I have played in a long time. [more inside]
posted by motty on Dec 21, 2009 - 76 comments

Flash Games Fun! This basketball game is a lot of fun, very addictive and lets you compete for a worldwide ranking against other players.
posted by Effigy2000 on Dec 19, 2009 - 42 comments

Mountain Maniac is a new flash game from PixelJam, the team behind Dino Run and Gamma Bros. Guide boulders down the mountain to destroy the city below. It was made along with Sausage Factory, a rhythm/recipe/meat-grinding game, for Adult Swim's 8-bit rejects.
posted by Rinku on Dec 19, 2009 - 15 comments

OBEY! The Game! [more inside]
posted by ardgedee on Dec 18, 2009 - 12 comments

Tetraform: Rubber-band spaceship smashing terraforming goodness. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork on Dec 17, 2009 - 12 comments

Phage Wars 2: Now with customizable traits and retro interface fun! (previously) (related)
posted by The Whelk on Dec 17, 2009 - 14 comments

Republic of Bacon.
posted by sharpener on Dec 13, 2009 - 65 comments

Starlight - (late) Friday Flash Fun.
posted by Eideteker on Dec 11, 2009 - 26 comments

Ship designation: Nemesis. Captain: Forever. (Flash, audio, outer space shoot-em-up fun.) [more inside]
posted by steef on Dec 11, 2009 - 32 comments

Bubble Tanks Tower Defense a flash tower defense game by HeroInteractive, creator of Bubble Tanks & Bubble Tanks 2. In many ways a Desktop Tower Defense clone/knock-off, but does add some of its own ideas to the mix.
posted by juv3nal on Dec 7, 2009 - 15 comments

Level Up! A sweet and oddly deep little RPG/platformer flash game that's all about grinding, stats, and broken fences. [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Dec 4, 2009 - 35 comments

Please dismantling the Tea canister(?). You have only a screwdriver. Japanese skill is NO need to slove this puzzle. Good luck! (Previously)
posted by Taft on Nov 27, 2009 - 58 comments

The Company of Myself is a poignant, puzzle-solving Flash platform-type game featuring some gameplay mechanics reminiscent of Braid. Each level furthers the game's tale of loneliness and alone-ness. [via JiG]
posted by The Great Big Mulp on Nov 25, 2009 - 22 comments

Andrew Zuckerman's Bird Book
posted by ooga_booga on Nov 13, 2009 - 32 comments

Elona Shooter - a fantastic castle-defence-shooter-RPG in Flash. Warning: insanely hard.
posted by catchingsignals on Nov 8, 2009 - 19 comments

Here is a simple game called Drench.
posted by thirteenkiller on Nov 6, 2009 - 44 comments

Please dismantling the Radio(?). your have only screwdriver. The tool you can use is the screwdriver. Japanese skill is NO need to slove this puzzle. Good luck. [Via JIG.]
posted by mudpuppie on Nov 4, 2009 - 120 comments

Friday non-Flash Fun: Robozzle is a surprisingly deep puzzle game. If you don't want to install Silverlight, there's a Javascript version. [more inside]
posted by you on Oct 23, 2009 - 29 comments

Small Worlds is an exploration game created by David Shute for JayisGames' Casual Gameplay Design Competition 6 (the theme this time around was "exploration"). It's short and there are no enemies to kill or items to pick up but it has faux pixelly gorgeousness and decently atmospheric music. [more inside]
posted by juv3nal on Oct 21, 2009 - 23 comments

OMG JERRY JACKSONS WEBSIGHTS THE WEBSIGHT OF POPELAR ANIMATER JERRY JACKSON
posted by Beautiful Screaming Lady on Oct 18, 2009 - 27 comments

Obechi: Languid Sunday afternoon catching-dots-in-circles Flash fun from the maker of Boomshine.
posted by Copronymus on Oct 18, 2009 - 13 comments

Machinarium: a new game from the creators of Samorost 1 & 2.
posted by brundlefly on Oct 17, 2009 - 33 comments

Friday Flash Fun: Frontier is an adventure RPG with an economic bent, very similar to Caravaneer. You travel from town to town dealing in the goods available in each town. [more inside]
posted by schyler523 on Oct 16, 2009 - 15 comments

The eyeballing game: compare your best attempts at several instinctive everyday tasks - determining a point of convergence, bisecting an angle, finding the midpoint of a line - against mathematical certainty. In a more financial mood? Play Chartgame: given a random historical stock chart of an unnamed S&P 500 company, choose to buy and sell as time advances to see if you can beat the market.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on Oct 14, 2009 - 22 comments

You are a shark. You swim off the coast of Florida. You dive in and out of the water to smash boats, and you can pull jumbo jets out of the sky WITH YOUR TEETH. You are Miami Shark. Via Rockpapershotgun. [more inside]
posted by Decimask on Oct 9, 2009 - 58 comments

Upcoming Flash CS5 will allow you to publish iPhone Apps. Today at Adobe MAX, Adobe announced that the upcoming Flash CS5 will allow you to build and export Flash Content as an iPhone App. This is not the same as Flash coming to the iPhone, it just means that instead of writing apps in Objective-C, folks can use ActionScript 3. Designers everywhere are already buzzing:perhaps time to re-purpose all those old intro screens? Perhaps the real question is: Do consumers win or lose?
posted by jeremias on Oct 5, 2009 - 169 comments

Clockwords. Type words to destroy robotic insects intent on stealing your secrets. [more inside]
posted by juv3nal on Oct 1, 2009 - 27 comments

Spezify is a metasearch engine. The interface is in Flash.
posted by ardgedee on Sep 29, 2009 - 38 comments

Brassed off?! (YouTube, 5 min.) Like the health care debate itself, the boycott / buycott confrontation regarding the recent article by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey may be heating up. Mackey, who was previously investigated by the SEC for making anonymous internet posts talking up his stock while trashing the valuation of an acquisition target, now faces opposition from suppliers and labor groups, a decrease in brand perception, investor calls to step down... and pesky oom-pah bands.
posted by markkraft on Sep 28, 2009 - 29 comments

iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.
posted by empath on Sep 25, 2009 - 21 comments

Icycle is a flash game about a naked man, a bicycle, and the end of the world. [more inside]
posted by The Devil Tesla on Sep 22, 2009 - 46 comments

Time Fcuk is a new game by Edmund McMillen and friends, its a "puzzle platformer" about perspective, its a community experience about communication with people who you dont like. [more inside]
posted by The Devil Tesla on Sep 18, 2009 - 19 comments

Loved Nanaca Crash? Want to hurl a turtle instead? Toss the Turtle will be right up your alley. Easy concept, shoot turtle from cannon and watch him bounce and blow up as he careens across the screen. Enjoy!
posted by schyler523 on Sep 11, 2009 - 23 comments

Ride a Bike through an Architectural Drawing: no, really.
posted by leotrotsky on Sep 10, 2009 - 33 comments

Oh woop de do it's Tetris on the internet. No seriously, Tetris Friends is awesome. [more inside]
posted by The Devil Tesla on Sep 8, 2009 - 48 comments

Pandemic: American Swine! New flash game from the makers of Pandemic II Send in the military! Control the media! Play as an open-government do-gooder or a city nuking despot and try to control the infection.
posted by The Whelk on Sep 4, 2009 - 22 comments

Vox Populi, Vox Dei (a werewolf thriller) is a short stealth-platformer from Weremsoft.
posted by Rinku on Sep 2, 2009 - 17 comments

You ran 245m before hitting a wall and tumbling to your death. Canabalt is a one button, randomly generated parkour game. (via) [more inside]
posted by America on Sep 1, 2009 - 61 comments

Celebrate your Friday with Max Damage, the little scamp.
posted by nevercalm on Aug 21, 2009 - 8 comments

Kinpira is a shockwave-game where you play a baby samurai out to rescue his mother. You run around a 3d landscape, all of which you can pick up and throw, once you grow strong enough to lift it. To start with you're picking up vases and other light items but soon enough you're lobbing houses around and eventually entire mountains. It's vaguely reminiscent of Mario 64 and Katamary Damacy.
posted by Kattullus on Aug 21, 2009 - 26 comments

Can't Wait for Friday Flash Fun: Cyclomaniacs is a bicycle racing game. Pretty self explanatory (GO FAST AND SPIN A LOT!) and fun.
posted by schyler523 on Aug 20, 2009 - 18 comments

A piano has 88 keys; Ohio has 88 counties. Cartographer Andy Woodruff noticed this fact while driving through Ohio to complete his Counties Visited Map, and decided, despite knowing nothing about music, to make a map based on this coincidence.
posted by yiftach on Aug 19, 2009 - 29 comments

The Great Flu — "Even at the lowest difficulty this game delivers a sense of just how hard it is to handle and contain the spread of a dangerous virus." (via)
posted by netbros on Aug 18, 2009 - 28 comments

Tane. Happy friday!
posted by whir on Aug 14, 2009 - 26 comments

Silent conversation, a truly beautiful flash game that has you trying to touch as many words of a poem as you can. (Yes it does have Williams Carlos Williams) [more inside]
posted by litleozy on Aug 14, 2009 - 16 comments

Physics Games is a collection of browser games that all have at least a rudimentary physics model. Some of the games I've enjoyed are Roly Poly Eliminator, Totem Destroyer 1 & 2, Demolition City and Red Ball. Most are fairly simple but some are complex, notably IncrediBots 1 & 2, which might as well require an engineering degree (slight hyperbole). My absolute favorite type of game on this site is the destroy-castles-with-a-trebuchet game, handsomely represented by not one but three games, Castle Clout, Castle Clout: Return of the King (no Tolkien connection) and Crush the Castle. All this is but a small sample of what's on offer.
posted by Kattullus on Aug 14, 2009 - 21 comments

In a similar vein to Progress Quest, but (slightly) more interactive, is... Linear RPG. [more inside]
posted by FatherDagon on Aug 12, 2009 - 54 comments