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Before Alice Taylor of Wonderland blog quit her day job to work on a startup, she worked for Britain's Channel 4 Education to create public service games with social lessons. This one above deserves a particular note: The End is a Flash game about death, belief and science.
The game about death & philosophy I commissioned from lovely Preloaded, to have a look at death and all the things around it. It's something as a society we report on a lot, and fetishise/agonise over, but we never really talk about how to handle it when it happens.
Kids (in the UK) are predominantly atheist or agnostic these days (large numbers of adults, too), and religion usually has quite a lot of ritual and support ideas around death, but the secular world, not so much. Us atheists are on our own, a bit. This game was commissioned around wanting to help out with that, a bit.
It's a platformer, and a quiz, and a 2-player card game, and a bunch of thought-provoking, open ended questions. Oh, and collectibles. Dig in.
Link | Alice's blog post about The End - via Boing Boing
Like a lot of mini golf-type Flash game on the web, the idea behind Wonderputt by Reece Millidge of Damp Gnat is to play putt putt golf.
Wonderputt, a mini golf-type Flash game by Reece Millidge of Damp Gnat, is not just like any other putt putt game you can find on the Web. For one, there are cows, toads, ski slopes, torpedoes ... and oh yeah, alien abduction: Link [Flash game]
When Mick Lauer (Newgrounds user RicePirate) discovered a review of the satirical Super PSTW Action RPG Flash game by irritated gamer axman13 and voice track by Deven Mack (D-Mac-Double), he was compelled to turn this epic review into a super epic animation.
Behold, Dot Dot Dot:
Watch it and weep: Link [YouTube Clip]
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We haven’t done Flash games on Neatorama for a while, so this one is perfect: cute, easy to play and pretty fun!
In the Omnom Forest, you play Omnoms, furry creatures that love fruits and hate acorns. Click on their bellies to open or close their umbrellas to help them eat only what they like. Sounds easy? Wait till you get more Omnoms.
Part of the treat, of course, is what happens when they get mad that you fed them things they don’t like.
Thankfully the Chilean Miners and Rescuers are safely out of the mine and recovering from their amazing ordeal. At Geekosystem they have found a neat flash game that allows you to play a small part in history:
This is genius. (Although you probably won’t finish it.) Chilean tech and design firm Root33 has made a playable Flash game called Los 33 in which you rescue the Chilean miners trapped underground. Rotate the wheel to get the rescue vehicle underground to pick up miners one-by-one, then rotate it again to bring it back up to the surface and drop them off amid the cheering crowds. Programming credit goes to Felipe “Peluche” León.
The concept behind the cute Monkey Kick Off Flash game from Miniclip is maddeningly simple: just press a key or click your mouse button to get the monkey to kick the ball. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is … except when you’re trying to beat someone else’s score.
See if you can beat my top score (4194, which is woefully low as compared to the top players of Monkey Kick Off): Link
In 2000, Australian artist Nathan Jurevicius created a character named Scarygirl, a cute but slightly odd little girl who has a giant octopus as a guardian, and thought of a game. Flash forward nine years later, he has finally finished it.
If you haven’t checked it out before, do yourself a favor and head on over to Nathan’s website. It’s the most beautifully animated Flash, like, ever!
Link – via gamingatwork
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I can’t juggle in real life, so I’m not sure why I thought I would do well at virtual juggling. I couldn’t even get past the first level… but maybe you can. Let us know how you do!
You have an upside-down hat and you have some cards; you need to get the cards in the hat. It’s just like a real-life card toss! The longer you hold down the mouse button,the more distance you’ll cover with your card. Use your mouse to pan to the left or to the right as needed. Have fun!
I Wish I Were the Moon is a refreshingly different and genre-defying Flash game by Daniel Benmergui of Ludomancy. It is inspired by Italo Calvino’s short story The Distance of the Moon
and has been showcased at the Tokyo Game Show for its experimental gameplay.
The object of the game is to find the 8 possible outcomes or "endings" – all you have to do is take snapshots of something and click again to move it …
Supposedly there’s even a "secret" ending: Link [Flash]
If you like that, check out Daniel’s other games: Storyteller and The Trials – via Blue Tea
This is pretty self explanatory, but strangely addicting. Figure out which domino will set off the chain that will splat the tomato. You don’t have to make all of the dominoes fall down, but it’s better if you do – you have a set amount of time to complete all of puzzles, and you get time taken off for every domino you leave. Have fun!
It starts easy, but it gets challenging! And when you finish that one, there’s FactoryBalls 2, which I think is even more inventive. Grass seed, anyone? Have fun!
FactoryBalls 1 and FactoryBalls 2 via Jayisgames
