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The black forest game series

The Devil Tesla — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:38:09 -0800

The Black Forest is a series of four minimalist flash games by Pixelate: Finding Friends, Unlearn, Harmony, and Companion. Pixelate is also behind the more the more thoughtful than usual breakout clone Mr. Bounce and the series Understanding Games.

These logic puzzles are like, full of color, man.

Terminal Verbosity — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:30:52 -0800

End of the decade flash fun: Picma Picture Enigmas.

Hit the spacebar.

tehloki — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:45:00 -0800

Tuper Tario Tros

Up, up and away.

Mitheral — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:50:22 -0800

George Steinmetz takes aerial landscape photos from lightest powered aircraft in the world, a motorized paraglider (and sometimes a helicopter, a motorized hang glider, and a hot air balloon). Some of the places he has photographed include Arabia's Empty Quarter; Africa; the Dead Sea; the Altiplano; the Salt Deserts of Iran; and China. Warning: Flash based image display. He's also done more conventional location photography of other people places and things including Antarctica; tree-dwelling people in Indonesian New Guinea that had no prior contact with anyone outside their language group; the Jackson Laboratory Mouse House which ships over two million mice per year for medical research.

Fluid dynamics and cybernetics!

cmoj — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:36:54 -0800

Creeper World Training Sim Something a little different for those who have been watching the Tower Defense genre's gradual stagnation. The full game is ten bucks from the makers.

I Brought You Some Coffee! Is It ... Boiling Hot?

MikeHarris — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:39:52 -0800

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) Nowadays, one can throw a rock and hit about 40,000 web cartoons. However, Radiskull and Devil Doll was one of the very first web cartoons out there, and is still considered one of the best by many nostalgic Internet "old-timers." As Sparks introduces the character in the Radiskull book later released (yes, there was a book, as well as three issues (1, 2, 3) of a comic), Radiskull – a portmanteau of "radical" and "skull" – is "a huge disembodied skull with glowing eyes, thick black eyebrows, a mouth full of long, sharp teeth, and a spiky purple Mohican that magically always seems to be side-on. He's got a taste for boiling coffee, refers to himself in the third person, likes pain, and dreams of ripping up small towns with his mighty jaws. Since he's just a skull, he moves around by levitation, which he finds extremely tiring. That means he needs a lot of sleep." As for his little red-suited pal, "Devil Doll is short and bubbly, with a cute grin, button eyes, a big yellow head, and horns. He's enthusiastic and outgoing, grins compulsively at the thought of mayhem, and rides a growling Harley-Davidson. He can breath fire – and fireworks – and he's a cool dancer. He's got lots of energy, and can never get enough of rocking and rapping with Radiskull." The initial episode, wildly popular (and noticed on Metafilter), soon had its follow-ups:

Hella Weenie (Atom), in which the pair bring justice to a Ned Flanders-esque neighbor with a cruel streak;
Radiskull Hate Snow (Atom), in which Devil Doll and Candy Angel first meet (Mefi);
Love 'n' Stuff (Atom), in which the pair independently pine after each other in Hades Minor and Heaven Academy #999, respectively (Mefi);
Angel This is Wrong (Atom), in which Candy navigates from Heaven into the ether in-between the universes, warned off by the Rappin' Dishonorable Judge Radiskull;
Wicked Nikki (Atom), in which Nikki the Succubus attempts to corrupt Devil Doll and Candy finds Hades locked tight;
Radiskull's Cave (Atom), in which Devil Doll tries to make his buddy okay with his angelic crush; and
Candy in Hell (Atom), the last produced episode of the series, in which Nikki learns that marshmallows and cotton candy aren't to be taken for granted, but manages to get in one last act of malice.

The series ended up having a hugely creative fan base. A.V. Phibes' "I was a Teenage (Give or Take 8 Years) Radiskull & Devil Doll Addict" is one of the more amusing, but there were also handmade dolls, cosplay, remixes, artwork, and tattoos. The series had a sad end in real life: when dot-coms crashed, Macromedia laid Sparks off in the summer of 2001 along with almost the entire staff of AtomShockwave at the time – but, as Radiskull and Devil Doll was created by Sparks while Senior Designer there, the company owned the copyright to Radiskull and Devil Doll – and proved spectacularly unwilling to work with Sparks on somehow releasing to or cooperating with him in continuing the series, or even getting out the partially completed ninth episode, "Hot Date." USA Today briefly touched upon Sparks' story in a 2002 news story. (In fact, Sparks receives no money even from the book, unless you buy it at his site and he gets the small Amazon referral fee.) Sparks released a music video preview for what was supposed to be his next endeavour, Dickie & Jackie, but nothing else was seen of the series. Sparks had a brief flurry of activity on three online repositories at the beginning of this year – Post-It Note Art by Joe Sparks, his blog, and Sparkmical – but none have been updated since February 2009. Fans interested in the back end of things might be interested in Sparks' production notes for Episodes 1 & 2 and Episode 3, as well as some notes on how he works. Now, ahem, it's time to kick it with some Sparks-supplied Radiskull and Devil Doll MP3 jams (YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!):

"I Am the Radiskull, I Will Kill You One By One",
"Very Bad",
"We Roll and Rock",
"Candy Candy Baby",
"Angel, This is Wrong",
"Bring On the Pain!",
"Rock Heart", and
"Gift from God".

(For some retro nostalgia, check out the "preloading notes" before each video, in which you're told to avoid 8-bit color if possible!)

Escape Success!

ixohoxi — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:43:26 -0800

Christmas Mini Room Escape Game III. A light-hearted diversion from the work that you're ignoring this week anyway. Previous Neutral games on MeFi: Christmas Escape 2, Lights, more.

Every Day The Same Dream

brundlefly — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:30:42 -0800

"Every Day The Same Dream," via the Experimental Gameplay Project

Like Lunar Lander Likes? You'll Like This

motty — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:43:36 -0800

Space Ace is the best Flash game I have played in a long time. It's a Lunar Lander-like collect-the-dots-before-they-do duelling game with some cute maps and some evil ones. I found it pretty hard at the beginning but it's intensely addictive once you get the hang of manouvering the ship. The vaguely retro vector graphics are pretty but simple and it runs smoothly even on an older machine like mine. There is no AI - instead you duel with random people from the internet. There's a ranking system, but no talk option, which just intensifies the pure gameplay vibe of the thing. Do not attempt to play this game if you have stuff to do. Found via this onlinegames.com post previously.

Shooting Hoops Against The World

Effigy2000 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:41:40 -0800

Flash Games Fun! This basketball game is a lot of fun, very addictive and lets you compete for a worldwide ranking against other players.

Mountain Maniac

Rinku — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:50:46 -0800

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.

Elephants are known to be obedient game players

ardgedee — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:01:26 -0800

OBEY! The Game! Previous elephants on Metafilter: This is the Only Level Achievement Unlocked

Tetraform

Fleebnork — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:29:18 -0800

Tetraform: Rubber-band spaceship smashing terraforming goodness. Click two spaceships to smash them together. P to pause. There is a Help/Tips menu within the Pause screen.

Infect. Reproduce. Repeat.

The Whelk — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:33:08 -0800

Phage Wars 2: Now with customizable traits and retro interface fun! (previously) (related)

Bacon bacon bacon bacon

sharpener — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:22:26 -0800

Republic of Bacon.

Turn around, bright lights

Eideteker — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:56:46 -0800

Starlight - (late) Friday Flash Fun.

Captain Forever!

steef — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:59:28 -0800

Ship designation: Nemesis. Captain: Forever. (Flash, audio, outer space shoot-em-up fun.) Designed by that guy who quit. Video of gameplay.

Bubble Tanks Tower Defense

juv3nal — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:29:49 -0800

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.

Relationship has levelled Up

The Whelk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:06:57 -0800

Level Up! A sweet and oddly deep little RPG/platformer flash game that's all about grinding, stats, and broken fences. Hint: X is up, down is interact, and c is Menu. Read the codex, trust me.

Please dismantling Tea canister

Taft — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:11:43 -0800

Please dismantling the Tea canister(?). You have only a screwdriver. Japanese skill is NO need to slove this puzzle. Good luck! (Previously)

I am somewhat impatient, but I know that the game will be loaded soon.

The Great Big Mulp — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:41:09 -0800

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]

Birds. Photos. Movies.

ooga_booga — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:27:12 -0800

Andrew Zuckerman's Bird Book

You have survived another day!

catchingsignals — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:59 -0800

Elona Shooter - a fantastic castle-defence-shooter-RPG in Flash. Warning: insanely hard.

Drench. It is a game.

thirteenkiller — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:21:23 -0800

Here is a simple game called Drench.

Radio radio

mudpuppie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:28:40 -0800

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.]