Tetris HD

I wish this had a pause button. It would be really fun to build this up for a run of "|" drops for getting multiple Tetris!


http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf

Thanks to BoingBoing.net for pointing this out.

Quick Game: Grow Tower

There's only one correct combination of the five pieces of the Grow Tower.

Should take you about 10 minutes to figure it out.

 I'm going to enjoy exploring the links off this site.

Web Game: Epsilon

It's not often flash games impress me. Flash Element TD was one. A few games at Good Experience Games. And now I can add Epsilon to that list.

Epsilon is a phyics/time travel/space travel puzzle game where a ball has to touch orbs and then exit a level. You can use gravity based portals, time rewind, and more to achieve each goal. The portals can be moved in real time, the ball can be frozen in mid-air, and even the rewind records mouse movement as it reverses.

It's a pretty impressive game for a time waster. Too bad it can really only be played with a mouse and keyboard or I'd love to see it on Xbox Live. It would make a really impressive Nintendo DS title though.

Chore Wars

This is hilarious.

In the vein of World of Warcraft and Guild Wars, Chore Wars is the best way involve your kids (or husbands)...(or wives) into doing chores around the house or for special events.

Create a character (pick a picture), arm it with abilities (vacuuming, dusting, etc) and join a clan (Part Time Gamers!).

Then the clan master (me) will create new quests for your characters to go on and you gain experience points (XP) and maybe in-game cash and prizes (worthless?).

Obviously I would make my kids actually do the things before they could play online, which I'm assuming is the point. Otherwise it's just hitting a button and hope your percentages work out. But I would then make them hit each other with wooden spoons a number of times based on their experience points from the online game. That would be fun.

I'll make Nicole join. That should still work.

Fancy Pants Adventure

This is proof that you don't need millions of dollars to come up with something would sell. It's also a reason not to burn and package expensive cds when you can make downloadable games; games that you can sell on all three of the major consoles.

Fanchttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gify Pants Adventures is a hand drawn-looking side scroller that samples from Mario, Sonic, and the hundreds of cheap side scrolling flash games that have floated around the net for the past 10 years.

But something feels good about this one. Armour Games got the animation right and matched it perfectly with the art. It's post-apocalyptic flavor blends well into a fast paced running, jumping platformer. Tie all that into some great puzzle/one-trick-pony sub levels and you've got yourself a great 30 minute time waster.