Red is a simple Flash game. Shoot the descending circles. Some are big and slow, some are small and quick. Shoot the power-ups to collect them. Soon you'll have a shield and some auto-turrets to help you clear the screen. But beware: it gets harder and more frantic as the wind increases. How long can you survive? A fun Missile Command/Asteroids hybrid. (Via
reddit)
posted by BitterOldPunk
on Sep 15, 2011 -
27 comments
Educational gamesmaker Preloaded has recently made two strategy games for English TV station Channel 4.
1066 is a mix of tactics, insult-typing, bowmanship, rhythm-game and narration by Ian Holm.
Trafalgar Origins is all Napoleonic high seas derringdo all the time, as you sail your English ship in real time against the damnable French and Spanish. Whether you want to hoist the sails or call your opponent a stench weasel, they are fun little games which have the added bonus of teaching you about British history. Both games can be played solo or multiplayer.
[via Rock Paper Shotgun, where they like those games quite a lot]
posted by Kattullus
on May 5, 2010 -
14 comments
Thanks to a lot of what I've read on Metafilter, I've found some amazing websites (many of these have been posted before), and I've built up kind of a Sunday routine that starts at
Post Secret, then continues to
TXComics, where I check the weeks updates on
Kukuburi and
The Abominable Charles Christopher, all the while hoping that
Sin Tutulo will be back soon (Feb 28th, they say). From there I check out
A Softer World, and every once in a while, go back to check on comics that seem to have stopped, like
We The Robots and
Simulated Comic Product (which seems to have undergone some changes.
The key? I usually finish with
Bob the Angry Flower, whose recommendations are always worth a shot. Therefore, I give you
Infectonator!
[more inside]
posted by Ghidorah
on Feb 27, 2010 -
30 comments
Cityscape. (Flash game) Build a city with 18 available components. The order in which those components are employed determines how they'll interact and how far the city will develop. There's one correct order that will score the full amount of points. (
via)
posted by Melinika
on Mar 10, 2006 -
22 comments
Reflex is the game responsible for a significant drop in the scores of my final exams. (Friday Flash)
posted by anomie
on Dec 17, 2004 -
26 comments
A new Samarost-style game brought to us by
Amanita, the same folks who authored
Samarost. You can see the same style, although this one is actually a
band advertisement and is much shorter and easier than Samarost.
posted by Lynsey
on Jun 12, 2004 -
15 comments
Love sushi? Love race cars? Wish there was some way to combine the two?
Supaa Sushi Races.
Like
Wacky Races, but with joy of driving sushi.
Flash, possibly NSFW if you think a cartoon woman with her top off would be a bit much.
posted by Katemonkey
on Jun 27, 2003 -
7 comments
Not really a game, but is scary/funny: This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf. I used sophisticated temporal algorithms and historical semiotic analysis to achieve an accuracy rating of 99.999%. It's the mother of all Flash games.
posted by samelborp
on Jan 27, 2003 -
31 comments
Bet the Farm. Friday Flash Fun! Do you have what it takes to run a modern farm? This online game pits your decision making against the forces of nature and the market in a simple, clever, educational flash game.
I made $9.33 an hour! Who will be MetaFilter's master farmer?
posted by putzface_dickman
on Nov 8, 2002 -
29 comments
Hexxagon , yeah, so its not friday flash, but it's sure a good way to waste a few hours on a tuesday afternoon or a wednesday morning. great game with some real strategy involved.
posted by sixtwenty3dc
on May 28, 2002 -
11 comments
Congress Woman requests Flash game removal on NewGrounds.com. The game is not being removed for its violent content, or depection of blood and gore. Instead it is the subject matter of the game that has raised the spectre of censorship.
The game in question,
Kaboom!, is about suicide bombers, the object being to blow up as many people as possible.
Do you think that a game about a Palestinian captured by the Israeli army to act as a human shield would warrant the same type fo request?
posted by DragonBoy
on May 7, 2002 -
34 comments
Shred Session is an addictive online game based on the real-life sport of footbag freestyle. Think of it as extreme Hacky Sack. Try to hit as many huge trick combinations as you can without dropping the footbag. Try to pull off the Nemisis, the Paradox Torque or the elusive Bedwetter.
posted by neuroshred
on Apr 9, 2002 -
1 comment