Cool games on the interweb redux

[Qwert]

Does anyone know how to download flash and java based games? I want to play some of these games when I am offline.

I just use the little "Block" tab addblock plus adds to flash/java elements. The custom field has the exact address of the file.

[BoomFrog]

Robot wants Icecream

The pinnacle of the "Robot Wants" series, and I think the best by far. It's a small Metroidvania type game.

[I Am Raven]

Madness: Premeditation, using characters and a similar graphics style as Madness: Interactive. You get to see a level, then time freezes. You then get a certain amout of time you can run around. After you did that, you get to see your route, and you can pick points on your route where you want to shoot in a player-defined direction.
Gun upgrades and bosses included.

Could've done with some more levels, maybe a level editor, and the option to buy the same gun twice so you can duel weild one type of gun.


I enjoyed the whole game immensely, and can reccomend it to anyone with a love for awesome.

[Cheese]

View page source, find the .swf entry for flash games, I think .jar for java, may be something different. Load those in a downloading program (as your browser is probably set to automatically open them, not download them) and off you go.

A good way to download them via browser is just to add a <a href=GAMEURL>link</a> into the source, view the page you just modified, and right-click -> save linked content.

[headprogrammingczar]

Or load the .swf url, then do File->Save As...

[dubsola]

Come on, we need more recommendations!

Radio Zed amused me for a little while. Shoot zombies, protect your radio transmitter, buy guns and what not. It's not amazing, but it's better than a languishing thread.

[headprogrammingczar]

Hydorah. It's basically Gradius with different levels and a whole lot more of them.

[BoomFrog]

A zombie game but with a fresh new type of gameplay. Lots of fun and pretty challenging.

Road of the dead

EDIT: Also Lucky Tower lite on actual "game" but pretty funny to go through.

[I Am Raven]

Why is Lucky Tower not excactly a game? I thought it was pretty cool by the way!

[BoomFrog]

I said lite on game, not "no game". As in 80% of the game is opening random chosen doors and watching funny cut scenes. That said I really liked it as a whole, so I think it's a good game.

[I Am Raven]

My apologies. But yes, I really liked Lucky Tower as a whole.
"I'm too handsome to diiieeeeeeee..."

[BoomFrog]

King of Bridges, a game of deductive reasoning that gets pretty damn tricky some time around level 17. I almost posted this in logic puzzles instead of here.

EDIT: Oh apparently is just a mediocre interface for a Japanese puzzle called Bridges or Hashiwokakero. Oh well it's still pretty fun.

[el_loco_avs]

King of Bridges, a game of deductive reasoning that gets pretty damn tricky some time around level 17. I almost posted this in logic puzzles instead of here.

EDIT: Oh apparently is just a mediocre interface for a Japanese puzzle called Bridges or Hashiwokakero. Oh well it's still pretty fun.

At 19 now. Good fun, reminds me of the way I solve sudokus >_<


edit:
21 made me take a break for tonight JEEEEZ

[BoomFrog]

A Worms-like in space, Gravitee Wars. Pretty fun, although it got a little old by the very end.

[I Am Raven]

Wizard's Run, a game with a bit of an arcade feel to it, where you are a wizard, and you have to kill some boss dude, who in turn tries to kill you with his minions. Upgrades and the like are available. Kept me amused for a little while, thought I might share it.

[Xanthir]

King of Bridges, a game of deductive reasoning that gets pretty damn tricky some time around level 17. I almost posted this in logic puzzles instead of here.

EDIT: Oh apparently is just a mediocre interface for a Japanese puzzle called Bridges or Hashiwokakero. Oh well it's still pretty fun.

Ah, I like it. Got to level 29 before Flash froze on me, then when I killed the tab, it hadn't saved any progress. Great.

[I Am Raven]

Armed with Wings 3. If you know the series there's not much to say, and if you don't... it's pretty hard to explain.

[Rek]

http://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc
Corporation Inc.

http://armor.ag/1Mjy8
^my tower

[Xanthir]

http://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc
Corporation Inc.

http://armor.ag/1Mjy8
^my tower

Kinda neat, but it's about as much a "game" as is "Throw a Brick off of a High Place". The latter is fun, but there's not much strategic depth to (1) go to a high place and (2) throw a brick off of it. Similarly, this game doesn't actually have any challenge to it. It's nearly inevitable that you win; the *only* think working against you is happiness, and it's super-trivial to maintain (I didn't drop below 80% the whole game, and I stayed at a constant 100% once I realized you could just buy more HR people). There's never any chance to run out of money, as the sole money drain is you buying more things for the office, and everything you buy is useful forever (well, except for elevators, but you just gradually trade up into better transit options; they don't "run down" or anything).

There also doesn't seem to be any real reason to get more than 20 offices or so, as that's more than enough to keep everything clean and repaired, everyone happy, and enough workers, accountants, and scientists to keep you full of money and constantly researching.

[Romio00]

there is a great game its name Sift Heads World Act 6 - Illicit Association. I advise everyone to play

[kriel]

http://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc
Corporation Inc.

http://armor.ag/1Mjy8
^my tower

Kinda neat, but it's about as much a "game" as is "Throw a Brick off of a High Place". The latter is fun, but there's not much strategic depth to (1) go to a high place and (2) throw a brick off of it. Similarly, this game doesn't actually have any challenge to it. It's nearly inevitable that you win; the *only* think working against you is happiness, and it's super-trivial to maintain (I didn't drop below 80% the whole game, and I stayed at a constant 100% once I realized you could just buy more HR people). There's never any chance to run out of money, as the sole money drain is you buying more things for the office, and everything you buy is useful forever (well, except for elevators, but you just gradually trade up into better transit options; they don't "run down" or anything).

Or, you can work on optimizing it.

Spoiler:

I split my tower into 6x3 office chunks, with only one type of person in each office. 4 of these, with three blocks of [cafe/gym][restroom][office] seperating them makes exactly 300 people.

current makeup that I use:

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[1 super  ][2 HR     ][3 research]
[5 workers][4 account][3 janitors]

In the first block I substitue an IT office for a researcher, and make up the difference on the cafe/gym/restroom/office floor. (and then add a few more researchers on the next floors up.)

other protips include:
*the fact that you only need 4 IT guys for a 300 people building. Seriously. Just one office. (Note: You'll have to hire/fire an extra guy to get that accomplishment)
*multiple skyhooks/firepoles/lift tubes will NOT help unless your building is excessively wide. there's no wait time to get on these like there is elevators.
*upgrade your IT people and researchers as you place them. researchers, especially. That last research thing is a bitch.

Using this strat, I just finished all the (completable) objectives on day 25. I didn't do any office upgrading or any promotions other than IT, Researchers, and as required for progression.

notes:
*I haven't found the bottom limit on HR people yet. gonna try 1hr/6 workers and see how that works out.
*Gonna try keeping on top of the office upgrades this time instead of focusing on building straight up. that said, by focusing on building up instead of upgrading/promoting i found that money quickly started spilling in faster than i could spend it. (The last thing I waited to buy was a lifttube, after that no money crunch at all.)
*I'm not sure I have enough janitors. I mean, everything seems clean, but my metric was usually 'if they make it back to their desks before they get off'. (That's also how I figured out how 4 IT guys can do it. They're standing at their desk most of the day.)

There also doesn't seem to be any real reason to get more than 20 offices or so, as that's more than enough to keep everything clean and repaired, everyone happy, and enough workers, accountants, and scientists to keep you full of money and constantly researching.

One of the achievements is 300 people / 75 offices.

[I Am Raven]

K.O.L.M., a platformer escape game, wherein you play as a robot that has to collect his powerups. It's cute though. It's a lot like like the "Robot wants ..." series. I really liked it alot. Kept me playing for about an hour.

[I Know Your Name]

You have to burn the rope. Now. http://www.kongregate.com/games/Mazapan/you-have-to-burn-the-rope

[SecondTalon]

... and that's what we get for being clever. Though in fairness, it is a dead link now.

(See : You Must Ignite the Length of Twisted Fibers With Little Compressive Strength)

[Halleck]

I've got two. One is an oldie but goodie's sequel. Stick RPG2 and this game which I'm amazed hasn't been posted yet. It's the most addictive game ever. Solipkier Have fun.

[BoomFrog]

Mentioned in passing in another thread I found myself playing through every one of the Games of Choice. I recommend Vampire, Romance and Broadsides. Dragon was obviously their first game and it shows. Also be warned that Vampire ends fairly suddenly with "chapter 2 coming soon". Romance does too, but the end of chapter 1 is a nice place to stop anyway.

My comments after playing a few times:

Spoiler:

I was impressed with how much illusion of freedom they give you and how little freedom you actually had which is only evident after multiple playthroughs. The games generally boil down to, Pick your strengths, pick your goal, now make choices that you think bring you closer to your goal. Which is generally fun but sometimes the choices are obvious such as, "I've maxed charm at every opportunity so I'll choose all the "be manipulative" choices, oh surprise surprise it worked."

[el_loco_avs]

Not really so much a game as a flashbased experiment with genetic algorithms.

Fascinating though:

http://megaswf.com/simple_serve/102223/

Updated more awesome version:
http://www.boxcar2d.com/

[theplague42]

Bookmarking. Some awesome games I would like to remember.

[BoomFrog]

Click this link! No time to explain!

[el_loco_avs]

Click this link! No time to explain!

hahahahaahahaha that was great

[BoomFrog]

Click this link! No time to explain!

hahahahaahahaha that was great

Did you find the two teleporters?

[el_loco_avs]

Click this link! No time to explain!

hahahahaahahaha that was great

Did you find the two teleporters?

The dinosaur one I did find!

[korora]

Captain Forever is a space dogfighting game in which you build your ship out of the wreckage of your defeated enemies, terrified that something will fly up and kill you while you're rearranging your parts, or fly up and shoot half your ship off, leaving you limping around in unbalanced little circles.

[spupy]

I was going to post Canabalt but of course everyone knows it already.

Can anyone recommend me a game that is very fast and requires mad reflexes? Canabalt does kind of, but it's too simple.

[novax6]

The game I helped make in my game design class is up on Kongregate now, and we're trying to get into the Unity Game Contest finalists, so check it out if you can, here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/HarbingerGames/stay-in-the-light.

It a side scrolling platformer, starts of basic, but gets harder. It's a little like Limbo mixed with a light manipulation game.

@spupy: How about Solipskier?

[archeleus]

Man I'm addicted to Robot Unicorn Attack (Heavy Metal version). I'm sure its been posted here before.

[BoomFrog]

Rebuild. A zombie themed turn based strategy game. Normal was too easy but nightmare was an actual challenge which was quite fun.

[rigwarl]

I was going to post Canabalt but of course everyone knows it already.

Can anyone recommend me a game that is very fast and requires mad reflexes? Canabalt does kind of, but it's too simple.

There's a decent game just called "Reflex" (i think reflex 3 is out now). I would get you the URL but I'm at work now but it shouldn't be hard to find.

[I Am Raven]

The Man with the Invisible Trousers. Best described as a Shift-like gameplay, with gravity mind puzzles thingies. It was fun.

[Technical Ben]

Not really so much a game as a flashbased experiment with genetic algorithms.

Fascinating though:

http://megaswf.com/simple_serve/102223/

Updated more awesome version:
http://www.boxcar2d.com/

My cat likes this game a lot!