Big Fish Thursday? Jojo's Fashion Show

I'm posting a Big Fish Game on a Thursday this week because tomorrow is the Blog365 official day of rest. It's the one day this year where participants are not supposed to blog, so I'm doing all my Friday stuff a day early. So don't expect a game tomorrow. Well, at least not here anyway.

So, here's today's game; Jojo's Fashion Show. Match fashions to eras, styles, colors and patterns and then march your models down the runway to earn points and bonuses. Earn even more by creating combos. If you do well enough, you'll beat your rival, Claudio Maximo, and regain your status as a top designer!

Jane's Hotel

In Jane's Hotel, you're in charge of check in, room service and coordinating the housekeeping staff to make your tiny little hotel into a profitable business. Keep all of the customers happy to earn more money and buy upgrades. See how far you can make it in the hotel business!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game

This mostly-text-based RPG re-creates the story of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in a puzzlingly humorous way. If you're at all a fan of the HGttG books, you should certainly give this a try. After all, it's mostly harmless.

StormWinds 1.5

Defend against derigibles, flying cannons and more in StormWinds 1.5, a Tower Defense game on Kongregate. No mazes and complex winding paths in this one though, your tower slots (only four!) are on the left and the enemies come at you from the right (mostly). Upgrading is automatic, but repairs and buffs are costly. See if you can make it through a campaign or two!

Big Fish Friday: Monster Mash

Monster Mash is a fairy tale take on the traditional tower defense game. There are a few curveballs though -- you have a team of builders who can only build or upgrade one tower at a time. They also collect bonus tokens which can produce effects like damaging all monsters on the map or making all of your towers fire faster. In addition, there is a little girl running from each wave of monsters. If she makes it into the village safely, you've effectively gained another life.

Filler

Today's game is Filler. No, that's not a knock on the quality of the game, that's what it's called. The object is to fill 2/3 of the screen with white balls. The trick is trying to avoid the little bouncing balls that become more numerous with each level. Click and hold down your left mouse button. This will start a ball growing. It will stop growing when you let go of the button, hit another ball that you've grown, or hit a bouncy ball. If you hit a bouncy ball, your growing ball will disappear and you will lose a life. Keep growing balls until you either run out of balls or out of lives, and try to hit that 66.6% goal to advance to the next level!

Note: This has not been the best of weeks for me, and it seems gaming posts have fallen by the wayside. My most humble apologies. Assuming there are no more crises, regular updates will resume tomorrow, 2/21.

Monsters' Den

Monsters' Den is an RPG on Kongregate. It's single player and turn based, so you never have to worry about lag, and it's party based, so you can explore several character options at once. The game interface is nothing terribly flashy, but with a good solid play experience, it's bound to become a favorite.

Big Fish Friday: Magic Seeds

Magic Seeds is another gardening game, but in this one your goal is to cross plants to create new ones. It seems the game's creators are a little fuzzy on the logic of DNA, since you can do things like cross a sunflower to another sunflower to produce tomatoes, but that doesn't stop the game play from being fun and engaging. See if you can discover all of the different types of plants, while keeping your bank account in the black and fending off pests of course.

WildTangent's Fate

Wild Games Fate is a fantasy RPG, done old-school style. No need to pick a class or specialty here though. You can build up your skills and spells as you see fit. Want to be a swordsman who can also summon monsters when he sees fit? Go for it. An archer with the ability to heal? No problem. You can build your character any way you choose. This one is only a free trial, but well worth a look!

Spin The Black Circle

Spin the Black Circle is a simple game to learn, but a bit of a challenge to master. Each level is a simple maze. A ball, some spikes, obstacles, and a target. You have to try to get the ball to the target by rotating the maze on its axis, but if it hits the spikes, it will explode and you get to start over. Sounds easy? You haven't tried it yet...

AlphaBounce

I'm not typically fond of breakout type games, but AlphaBounce is a bit different. It's kind of like an RPG played on a breakout engine. You get three free plays a day, and you can earn more in game. You're playing a space prisoner, serving your time as a galactic miner. As you break bricks, you can earn upgrades and such that will help you out as you progress through the game. Anyway, don't take my word for it -- go try it out!

Big Fish Friday: Farm Frenzy

So you start with a duck, or maybe a few. Ducks lay eggs. Eggs can be processed. Processed eggs can be baked into cakes. Cakes can be sold on the market for quite a bit of cash. But if the ducks don't get fed, there won't be any eggs. And if the bears get em, you can just forget it! That's the concept behind this week's Big Fish game: Farm Frenzy!

Crossword.swf

Crossword.swf is anything but your typical crossword puzzle. Instead of solving clues, you're given a mostly empty grid and a set of letters to be fit into it. When you click on a blank space on the grid it will highlight all of the other spaces that will hold the same letter. In this way, you can eventually puzzle out all of the letters to solve the puzzle. Can you make it all the way through expert mode to win the game?

Penguin Diner

Penguin Diner is a lot like a "light" version of Diner Dash. You play as Penny, a penguin who is working as a waitress to earn enough money to get home. Seat customers, take orders, serve food and collect tips. Between levels, don't forget to upgrade! Before you know it, you'll be headed home.

Frontline Tower Defense

Frontline Tower Defense is one of the more difficult TD games I've played. And that's on the easy setting! It looks pretty standard... Open playing field, creeps moving through it. But the creeps are deceptively difficult, and the towers are a bit on the pricey side. Think you have what it takes? Go find out!

Free Rice

Ok, so I didn't post yesterday. A thousand apologies. I got a little caught up in a different project, not that that's an excuse, but it's still the truth. So, two games today! Here's the first:

Free Rice is a charity and a fun vocabulary-building game all in one. The game itself is fairly simple. They give you a word and you chose the correct one of four possible definitions. You answer correctly? Next word is a bit harder. Get it wrong? Next word is easier. Doesn't get much more straight forward than that. But here's the cool part. For each correct answer, 20 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. Now, 20 grains might not seem like much, but the more you play, the more it accumulates. In fact, yesterday alone, 139,444,840 grains were donated. So next time someone tells you that playing games online is a waste of time, send them to Free Rice!

Go-Go Gourmet

Part hidden object game, part Diner Dash-like service game, Go-Go Gourmet is the type of game that will appeal to a wide variety of audiences. Your Grandfather has retired and left you his restaurant. There are a few problems though -- the place is a dump, you have no money, and you need to learn to cook. Take jobs in increasingly complex restaurants, learn skills and recipes and earn the money you'll need to remodel the old place. Bon appetit!