Happy New Year

Just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2008, and to remind everyone to please ring it in safely.

Featured Game: Seed

Ok, so it's more a toy than a game because there's no actual goal other than just having fun with it, but still. Seed is well worth a play, (or five) but be careful because finding that perfect mutation can be elusive and time-consuming! The whole idea is to grow flowers. You start with a simple alpine lily and germinate it either alone in hopes of fun mutations, or by introducing other flowers into the mix. You can come up with some pretty wild-looking flowers this way!

Featured Game: Ladybird Logic Game

Test your logic skills in this addictive puzzler. Ladybird Logic Game is a simple enough premise. You have to place all of the tiles on the board so that each of the numbers on the tiles matches the number on its adjacent tile. It may sound easy, but it can be quite tricky! Each time you solve a puzzle, the ladybug will move up the post a little. Once you solve enough puzzles for her to reach the top, her firefly friend will shower you with stars! Can you make it all the way to the top of the pole?

Featured Game: Splash Back

Splash Back is a fun little puzzle game that is a lot more challenging than it appears. You start out with a board filled with little globs of green goo, and 10 drops of green goo in your tank. Adding a drop of goo to an almost full blob will cause it to burst and send drops flying out toward other blobs around it. The catch is, you will not be given more drops, unless you earn them: one for every combo of three blobs burst with a single drop, and one for every level cleared. How long can you make your 10 drops last?

Christmas Break

Bun-Girl's Featured Games is on a one week hiatus through Christmas. I'm just having some trouble finding time to post! So, have a look at the archives. There are plenty of great games in there, just waiting to be played.

In the meantime,

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage is a point and click puzzle game. You were supposed to meet someone, but you get to the meeting place and find him to be missing. Use your sleuthing skills and a bit of luck to escape to the island and find out what happened to your friend.

Snow Drift

The platformer Snow Drift is a great little game with a lot of heart. You play as a Yeti who must run, jump and slide it's way through level after level, knocking down penguins and bowling over enemies as you go.

Featured Game: Vector TD

Vector TD may not have flashy graphics like some of the Tower Defense games out there, but it more than makes up for it with it's playability. Start out by picking your map, then build towers and defend against the oncoming attackers. Spend cash to build and upgrade towers, but you'll also get bonus points that can be used to build modifiers.

PLANned

PLANned is another of those games that come to us via JayIsGames' Casual Gameplay Design Competitions. This one is from Competition #2, with a theme of "Grow". You start out with a number of squares positioned on a grid. Each time you click on a square it will grow. When two squares touch each others' corners, they are frozen and can no longer be manipulated. You can't click on the same square twice in a row. Within the parameters of these rules, you must form a chain that connects to all of the squares together. Sounds easy? Just try a few levels.

Ball Physics

Ok, the name kinda sucks. I'll be the first to admit that. But Ball Physics is actually a pretty good little game. There are two types of balls on the board. The camouflage ones are your troops. Soldiers, tanks, hunters, sirens and ice cream trucks. (That last one is a decoy, but it's pretty effective!) The black ones are bombs. You have to destroy the bombs before they explode, all the while working around a series of traps and obstacles, in order to save the world from the dreaded Dr. Destructo and his diabolical plans.

Featured Game: Cirplosion

At first, Cirplosion looks like another boomshine take off, but it isn't. There is no option for chain reactions for one thing. Click your mouse once and hold the button down until your circle is as big as you can get it without touching either the floating dots or the edges of the board. Then release the button and move your circle on top of as many of the dots as you can. Click again to remove any dots you're covering from the board. In some levels you may get only one shot to remove them all. In others, you can use multiple cirplosions. The clock is always ticking though, and there's never as much time on it as you'd like.

Featured Game: Mercury Drops

Today's game is Mercury Drops, another of those food chain games that I love so much. In the game, you're a drop of mercury trying to absorb other drops without being absorbed by bigger drops. The unique aspect here is that all of the other drops on the board have the same goal, so they're also absorbing and growing. And as you get into the harder levels, some of them start out bigger than you, so watch out!

Featured Games:

Somehow, I seem to have missed posting yesterday. See what happens when I give myself the weekends off? So, since there was no game for Wednesday, there will be two for Thursday.

The first is Excit. It's a game that I'm sure you've played before, just not quite like this. The object is to move your cursor to the exit. Use the arrow keys to move in any direction, but you won't stop unless you hit something. Work your way from block to block until that big green sign is in view, and then go for it. Oh, and the entire thing is played on a spreadsheet...

Game #2 is a classic. Gold Miner was popular enough that it spawned a sequal (or two). Press the down arrow key to send your claw searching for loot. Be careful what you pick up though, heavy objects take longer to reel in than light ones and rocks really aren't worth much. Each level has a goal, and your money earned carries over to the next level. Once you complete a level, you are sent to the bonus shop where you can purchase supplies to help you on your way, but if you spend too much there, you may find yourself in trouble in the next level.

Featured Game: World of Solitaire

Solitaire games are a dime a dozen on the net, so I seldom pay them much attention. World of Solitaire is a little different though. They've set out to make the ultimate solitaire website, and I think they're well on their way there. There are plenty of games to choose from, from classics like Klondike and Spider, all the way through several I had never played before. You can customize your game too. Pick from several themed decks, and choose a background or use one from anywhere on the web. Decide if you want the computer to help you play, if you want the cards to be a little larger, or if you want your game to be timed or scored. Even for those who long ago got bored with playing solitaire on the computer, this site is worth a look!

Featured Game: ARC

ARC is a chain reaction type game, in which you have to rotate stars in their orbits to hit other stars. When two stars hit, they send trails around their respective orbits, which in turn explode any other stars they contact. See how long you can make the chain go on!