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Games Featured:
- • Mittens
- • Dusk
- • Luftrauser
- • znRevolutions
- • Apocalypse Basketball
Wakey wakey, internet, video games wait for no one! Especially not when death is (literally) at your door, bogies are on your six (that's a thing, right?), the hero is a jerk, and you really can turn back time! So kick back, game on, and start your Friday off right!
Games Featured:
- • Gridlock
- • Ununicum
- • Planarity
Casual games are often derided as simplistic... but that complaint assumes that complexity is a good thing in and of itself. Certainly I've seen more than my fair share of bloated major releases that feel like they bring my CPU to a crawl just for the the heck of it. Reducing puzzles to their most fundamental features, without sacrificing an iota of challenge, can make for some very satisfying games. Today in the JiG Vault we have three minimalist masterpieces from our archives that show just how great it can be when developers Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Games Featured:
- • Re-Find
- • ZOOKEEPER DX Touch Edition
- • Quiz Game Land
- • Driller Bunny
The iTunes App Store continues to attract games of all types from developers in all corners of the globe, and we— wait, "corners" of the globe? Corners are where two lines meet, forming an angle. There are no angles on a globe, let alone the sphere that is our Earth. Corners of the map, perhaps? That'd make more sense, but those corners are completely arbitrary. We could be referring to a map of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA, in which case, all corners wouldn't be that exotic. Scratch the corners bit. Just play these games and have fun!
Games Featured:
- • WG Realms 2: Siege Breaker
- • Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol
- • Crab Blaster
Two words for you this weekend: Wyv and Keep. Well, actually, that "and" should be included, so it's really three words. You don't really have to pay attention to the third word, but it really helps establishing the relationship between the two nouns surrounding it. Stop reading, go play!
Games Featured:
- • Mine Drop
- • Dinosaur Zookeeper
- • A Dog of Flanders
- • UFOwned
- • Rescue a Chicken 2
Internet! Stop what you're doing RIGHT NOW and play all the games on this week's Link Dump Friday this very instant! I mean... we can't prove that doing so will prevent an alien invasion that could devastate and enslave humanity... but do you really want to take the chance and be the one jerk on the alien slave chain gang who didn't do your part?
Take me out to the You Are Games! Take me out to the crowd! Bring me some captions and quirky punchlines, your quip could be featured in an upcoming comic! For it's loot, loot loot you could win if your caption tickles our funny bone, so it's one, two, three strikes you're out, 'cause that frooooooog's oooooooon fiiiiiiiiiire!
Games Featured:
- • Covert Front
- • Sea of Glomp
- • Hewitt
The first adventure game I ever played was Maniac Mansion. I was in 4th Grade, and for some reason the classroom happened to have a decade-old Commodore 64 with a collection of not-entirely functional floppy diskettes that we LOAD,8,1-ed at random. We never really made much progress into saving Sandy from Dr. Fred (due largely to our lack of understanding re: the concept of "copy protection"), but it inspired a love of adventure games that has continued with me to this day. So join me for three favorites of the genre, this week in the JayIsGames Vault.
Games Featured:
- • Robotek HD
- • Infernus: Verse 1
- • Stellar Escape
Robots make for interesting games, but do you know what makes for even more interesting games? More robots! Fighting each other! This Android game roundup features a few heavy-hitting games for your mobile phone. Only one has robots, but all three are really, really good!
Games Featured:
- • The Cat and the Coup
- • AFROFARG
- • Splash
Political game starring a cat? Got that! Game with a really big title? Got that, too. How about a game made out of letters? Got that! A game that dispenses pie? Aww, not got that. Fail. Maybe next Weekend Download?
Games Featured:
- • Hazmat
- • Zombie Exterminator
- • Moontype
- • Rocket Panda
- • The Adventures of Dear Explorer
Just your average Friday, full of panda butts, aliens, flesh-eating slugs, zombies, and a slow, painful death in a vat of acid! Link Dump Friday brews you another delicious brew of the best little games the internet can come up with.
Games Featured:
- • Dice Wars
- • Lonely House Moving
- • Guest House
- • Nest of Moai
Eight years ago, a man's fantasy became a reality in a form never seen before: JayIsGames.com, a giant arena to feature the best of casual gameplay. Soon, it became known the authors of those games featured would win the people's ovation and fame forever. Thus, if memory serves me correctly, we look to the land of the rising sun to feature some of the best casual gameplay works from the nation of Japan. The heat is on in the JiG Vault! ALLEZ JEUX!
Games Featured:
- • Mighty Fin
- • Bumpy Road
- • 7 Words
- • Cubetastic
This edition of Mobile Monday is so full of awesomeness, we had to evade the government agents chasing after us for breaking awesomeness laws in 42 countries! PROTIP: The old Groucho Marx glasses/moustache/nose mask doesn't work as well as it does for Bugs Bunny.
Games Featured:
- • Nikki and the Robots
- • Vexed Hedgehogs
- • The Adventures of Box Guy
Just because a game isn't technically finished doesn't mean you can't play it. Or that it isn't fun! This edition of Weekend Download features two games that are still works in progress. They may have some rough edges, dusty corners, and missing bits and pieces here and there, but you can still experience the core of what is shaping up to be a great game. And just think: when the games are officially released, you'll feel all cool and stuff because you already knew about it!
Games Featured:
- • Blinkz
- • Hacker vs Hacker
- • Plimpton's Video Falconry
- • Feed the Mooks
- • It's Dark In Hell
If you want romance, hackers, fruit, tiki totems, and to see small animals get mauled by talons like steel, then you've come to the right place! Link Dump Friday serves up another batch of weekly games with platforming action, physics puzzles, and good ol' fashioned falconry!
Games Featured:
- • Hotel
- • Haluz
- • Kafkamêsto
Tis brillig and the slithy toves are gyring and gimbling in the JiG Vault. All mimsy are the games from the past, and they're so good, they'll make your mome raths outgrabe. Yes, today we are beamish to present three of the more surreal entries from our game archives, and I'm sure they'll make your day quite frabjous!
Games Featured:
- • Deadly Dungeons
- • X-Men
- • Alberi
Hungry for some more Android games? We've got you covered with puzzle, action, and role playing genres represented with mobile games you're guaranteed to love! And if you don't love them, then you're not guaranteed to love them!
Games Featured:
- • Australopithecus
- • They're Going to Blow up the Train!
- • Questling
If you follow world news events, the weekend is a good time to catch up on what's been going on around our planet. That's pretty boring, however, whereas a 2D platformer, a Lemmings-like action game, and a game where you carry coal to feed a chugging train is much more exciting!
Games Featured:
- • The God of Poverty
- • Tube Crisis
- • Tiny Blockman
- • Ninja Painter
There's a cover charge for this week's Link Dump Friday, but I know the guy who owns the place, so I can get you in. It's cool. We're cool. We're serving up point-and-click puzzles, wanton extraterrestrial destruction, ninja creativity, flatulence, and more. That's right... we're the classiest joint in town, baby.
Games Featured:
- • Etherena Beta
- • Rose & Camellia
- • XiaoXiao9: Fight Man
Not many people know that JiG originally started as a tournament conceived by mysterious businessman J. Bibson, in the attempt to find the world's most powerful game reviewer. We were all set to start the first round at the JiG docks... but then a new Eyezmaze game came out, we all got distracted, and decided to start a website instead. And so, we peer into archives of that website as this week in the JayIsGames Vault, we feature some of the best casual fighting games of years past.
Games Featured:
- • Firefly Hero
- • Storm in a Teacup
- • Current
Ingredients. Can't make anything without them. It's kind of a broad sort of statement to make, but hey, you come here for games, not for philosophical musings. Each game below uses a number of ingredients to make what we call "fun". This "fun" is an enjoyable thing you can experience with your mobile device, thus consuming ingredients which would be distasteful on their own in their properly made form.
Be sure to check out our well-written and complete walkthrough (with images) for Dream Chronicles: The Book of Water, the standard edition of which has just been made available today at Big Fish Games. Be warned: contains major spoilers, so proceed only as needed, and as a last resort.
Games Featured:
- • OpenClonk
- • Intense Staring Simulator
- • Pilot Crash Course
What's that? You want games to play? Games that let you climb around in caves or smash into pixel orc dudes? Well... we'll have to think about it. Ok, we thought about it, and we decided we'll think about it some more. In the meantime, play some games where you can climb around in caves and smash into pixel orc dudes.
Games Featured:
- • Tobe's Hookshot Escape
- • Starcede
- • Pogo Rampage
- • Shiver Me Pieces
- • The Blocked Tunnel
Link Duuuummmmp... in my browseeeer... makes me happeeeeeeeeee... Everybody!... no? *sigh* Nobody ever wants to sing along with me. Oh well. Guess I'll just console myself with the wide variety of genres on display in this week's Link Dump Friday. No, no, it's too late, don't even try. The moment's past.
Games Featured:
- • Acrobots
- • Pianolina
- • The ABC Game
I think that one of the signs that I'm getting old is my increasing inability to comprehend the appeal of the latest hot must-have toy of the season. Silly Bands? Zhu Zhu Pets? Paper Jamz? I just feel like I'm missing something. No matter... I have the plethora of webtoys in the JiG Vault to keep my increasingly crotchety personality at bay. Here are three of my favorites, which I think will be fun for both the young and the young at heart.
Games Featured:
- • Dragon Slasher
- • Crystal Soul
- • Legends of Yore
How about a little RPG action to start your new week? Knew you'd agree! But not just any old RPG. No sir/ma'am/other! We've got platform RPGs, puzzle RPGs, roguelike RPGs, and maybe some other sub-genre that hasn't been named yet. Cookie RPG? Mmm, delicious...
Games Featured:
- • Myrktorch
- • Singlehandedly
- • Have You Considered the Benefits of Life Insurance
Another Ludum Dare competition is about to end, and the resulting slew of games are, as usual, numerous, creative, and wacky. The three day event encourages solo game creators to dream up and craft a game in just 48 hours. The only other constraint is that entries must adhere to the chosen theme, which was pretty unusual this time around: It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take this! See the full release list of all 352 Ludum Dare 20 games, then vote on your picks on the Ludum Dare website. And then, check out some of our favorites below!
Games Featured:
- • Zombies Runaway
- • Inverted Y
- • Dimension Diver
- • Duck Life 3
- • Lynn Love
Put on your red cape and avoid zombies in the dark, deal with literal letter oppression, raise your duck to be the very best, or take a peek at how your emotions live in this week's installment of Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Winterbells
- • Purgatorium
- • Set: Daily Puzzle
- • Bloxorz
The Bard tells us that brevity is the soul of wit. That goes for games as well as JiG Vault summaries. So let's jump right in to this week's collection of hits that are as sweet as they are short.
Games Featured:
- • Chalk Ball
- • Clever Contraptions
- • Pumpkins vs Monster
Gravity is something we deal with every day. From pulling that cup of coffee off the table (I swear I didn't push it!) to making our hair flat despite the gratuitous amounts of blow drying we've done, that unseen force of nature exerts its control over every single particle. Naturally, playing games that help us defy gravity gives us a sense of power. So if you're feeling a little slow this fine Monday, grab one of the games below and see if playing with physics can't cheer you up a notch!
Games Featured:
- • Pon
- • Rework the Dead: Evil
- • One Day Outside of Time
Part of what makes Weekend Download so fun is sharing games that aren't yet complete, are just concepts, are experimental, or are just plain weird. They aren't epic journeys that will consume entire days of play time. Instead, each little nugget of freeware gold does one thing particularly well. And even if it isn't perfect, we still like to share, allowing more people to play crazier games and giving the creative game developers a little more attention!
Games Featured:
- • P.i.g
- • Kulkis
- • Nyan Cat FLY!
- • Blow Things Up 2
- • Drawing Room
Portals, cats, spikes, bombs, and pencils make up this week's edition of Link Dump Friday, but definitely not vegetables. Arcade action, platforming, and escaping, though? Totally got you covered.
Games Featured:
- • Bloons
- • Trapped Series
- • Banner Game by Rob Allen
Rob Allen... Ninja Kiwi... Rodrigo Roesler... by their powers combined, they are... the Vault! Toss in a monkey, a murder, and one strange campsite, and you have the recipe for some seriously great games from 2007.
Games Featured:
- • Coin Drop!
- • Strange Rain
- • Box Knight
- • Lazorz
Some of our favorite mobile games have a rich visual presentation, are easy to pick up and play but hard to put down, and have cute things that smile at us for no apparent reason. A couple of this week's featured titles do exactly that, and the other one's got lasers, so it wins points for being awesome in a different sort of way!
Games Featured:
- • Quaintbrush
- • Contourmind
- • One Curious Nightfall
More games need to be abstract. Just about every art movement comes with its own brand of creators putting their minds to their respective canvases and creating things that don't quite make sense. Games, on the other hand, tend to be more logical, linear, and easy to understand. Why not break down a few barriers and twist the user's experience around a bit, like this week's feature Contourmind does?
Games Featured:
- • Flying Candy
- • And Everything Started to Fall
- • Running Wizard
- • Royal Beasts
- • Appy 1000MG
Depress yourself with the stark inevitability of poor decisions. Then cheer yourself up again by causing massive property damage with lightning bolts! Then depress yourself with the harsh reality of the falsely happy worth around you. Then cheer yourself up by throwing meat at a lion! Just another week here at Link Dump Friday.
Games Featured:
- • A Break in the Road
- • Click Drag Type 3
- • Time Raider
What do you really need out of life? Sure food and shelter are nice, but don't forget the other important things too, like adventure, mental stimulation, and creativity! This week's installment of the Vault highlights three games that embody those traits and celebrate everything bemusing, perplexing, hilarious, and even a little frustrating.
Games Featured:
- • Stones of Tranquility
- • Spinballs
- • Return Zero
- • Cordy
Exciting? Check. Thrilling? Sort of the same as exciting, but check. Calm? Check. Actioney but with some puzzle elements? Er, check. Pie? Check. Well, check yesterday, but there's some left over in the fridge. Help yourself (it's chocolate), then help yourself to some awesome Android games, too!
Games Featured:
- • Hubby the Clay Cube
- • Little
- • Cold Blooded (Cold 2)
Hello, traveller! Did you know it's possible to have protagonists made out of clay? How about protagonists that are really tiny due to radiation? These facts and more on this edition of Weekend Download!
Games Featured:
- • Spike: A Love Story
- • Cubium
- • Sci-Fighters
- • Bloons 2: Spring Fling
- • Animal Raceway
April's almost over, so let's send it out with a bang!... or with misplaced affections, alien combat, and monkeys wearing rabbit ears. You know, whatever works. Link Dump Friday brings you more popping, more pit combat, and more work-your-fingers-to-the-bone training than ever before!
Games Featured:
- • Exmortis
- • The Fancy Pants Adventure
- • Chronon
This week's installment of the Vault will make you scream bloody murder! Literally, since an iconic horror adventure about the worst cabin in the woods ever is involved. Also featured; adorable, monstrous captivity and a pair of pants to die for!
A visitor stopped by JIG HQ over the weekend and left us a challenge and we're going to give away a few prizes to those who figure it out. Take a look at the interrogation transcript and see what details you can wring out of his vague responses. If you can find the review page on which he hid his egg, submit its location AND an explanation of Mr. Bunny's code.
3D games on the iPhone? That both play well and are actually interesting? Preposterous! Well, maybe not so strange, but it's rare to see a first person game that actually fits the mobile platform well. Sometimes it's good to be proven wrong!
Games Featured:
- • Grief
- • Mecha Spider Island
- • Terra: Legend of the Geochine
This happy weekend time, we are proud to present: fun games! Really, really fun games. It's like, if you wanted to get a bunch of games together that were just plain fun, not so much challenging, not so much brain-taxing, just awesome fun, then you'd assemble something like what we have below. And then you would go play them and have some of that fun everybody's always talking about!
Games Featured:
- • Burger Cat
- • Wizard of Oz
- • Mindy in Zombieland
- • Ninja Dog
- • Clowning Around
With summer coming up, you're going to want to whip your reflexes into tip-top shape, and I can't think of any better way to do so than to practice your platforming, or maybe follow the yellow brick road, or even psychically manipulate hordes of the undead while deadly spikes inch closer and closer to your skull. (Let me tell you, you do not want to be out of practice for that last one.)
Games Featured:
- • Junkbot
- • Warbears
- • Slidon
I read the mysterious scrap of paper my contact has just put in my hand... "MHCFRYM AV RGU VTW GHIYN!"... Let's see, if I rot13 that, I get "ZUPSELZ NI ETH IGJ TUVLA!". Unscramble and... "PUZZLES IN THE JIG VAULT!" And what type of puzzles do we have this week? Action starring a Lego-Robo, adventure with a cast of steady teddies at the ready, and a styling tiling board game remix.
Games Featured:
- • Monkey Labour
- • Forget-Me-Not
- • Robot Wants Kitty
- • Pixel Shift
It's old school games and puzzle experiences that dominate this episode of Mobile Monday! Also, it seems like we've included two furry animals in the lot. Subtle marketing ploy to get you to buy kitty litter and JayIsGames Brand Monkey Food? We're not saying. But, on an unrelated note, if we did make a packaged monkey food, would you buy it?
Games Featured:
- • Mushrooms Hate Kaya
- • Masjin
- • 0Space
- • En-Garde!
Got some pals over and want to engage in some retro-styled multiplayer fight-a-thons? TIGSource has your answer! The recently-concluded TIGSource Versus Competition inspired a community of game creators to craft 81 multiplayer games, each one focused on combat. Some are playable online, others are confined to meatspace multiplayer, but they're all unique in that awesome indie sort of way. Below are a few of the top games as voted on by the TIGSource community!
Games Featured:
- • Pokemon Tower Defense
- • Epic Charlie
- • Jhink Toy
- • From Beyond
- • Alien Attack 3D
There's no rhyme or reason to this week's Link Dump Friday, just a tasty melting pot of the internet's best. Catch 'em all (then line 'em up as sentries), be epic-er, indulge your monstrous side, channel the spirit of Ripley, and unlock a deceptively simple puzzle... it's your destiny! At least until the weekend sets you free.
It's your job to come up with an egg-laden pun in this week's You Are Games challenge. That's right, the yolk's on you! Take a look at this unfinished Babylon Sticks comic drafted by resident comicster James Francis. It could use another dipping in the dye batches so it gets some color. But most importantly, it needs a punchline! What humorous quip can you imagine to finish this comic?
Nitrome's latest real-time strategy epic is trundling your way...
Games Featured:
- • Papa's Pizzeria
- • Wink: The Game!
- • Dotville
- • Skywire
As Tuesday peeps its head over the horizon, we usher in another installment of The Vault, and another batch of games from the olden days (2007 is plenty olden) designed to keep you coming back. Rescue a princess using stealth and your wits, become the ruler of the land's most adorable (but needy) tribe, juggle every delicious aspect of pizza making, and pilot a group of people through ridiculously treacherous terrain. And all before the middle of the week rolls around! Man, you're productive. You deserve a raise, and you can tell your boss we said so.
Games Featured:
- • Word Geek
- • Halcyon
- • Slice HD
- • BallFallDown
- • Panopticon
With the release of a brand new iPad 2, we thought we should celebrate with a collection of some of the platform's best exclusive games! What better way to break in that Apple A5 processor (or even the original Apple A4 processor!) than with a couple of big, gorgeous casual games? Look for more iPhone or Android games next week!
Games Featured:
- • 1916 - The War You Never Knew
- • Ranger
- • Tottenham
Games. Fresh games. Newly minted from game presses built before the turn of the century. Which, come to think of it, wasn't that long ago, was it? But it sounds like it's ancient. Classic. Time-tested. You keep thinking that while you play the gems below!
Games Featured:
- • Dino Run: Marathon of Doom
- • Egg and Ghost
- • Brains Will Roll
- • Purple Invaders
- • Choose Your Game
Dinosaurs, ghosts, and zombies, oh my! But don't be afraid; this edition of Link Dump Friday is still as safe as ever, despite an unlikely group of terrifying creatures. Save the world according to your own specifications, protect the world's most uncommunicative sidekick, flee from your inevitable doom, and more, all in one article!
Games Featured:
- • The Goat In the Grey Fedora
- • Detective Grimoire
- • Death in Sakkara
Let me see... going from all the evidence in front of me... I'm going to have to go with... Tricky! In the JayIsGames Vault! With this week's handful of games from the past!... Okay, the games below might not be of too much help in discovering who killed Mr. Boddy, but any amateur sleuth out there should enjoy the collection of not-so-elementary cases to crack. They take us to crimes around the globe: from the underbelly of the big city, to a small-town circus, to the deserts of Egypt. The game's afoot!
Games Featured:
- • Office Rush
- • Monomaze
- • Geostruct
- • YooNinja
It's Android time! We know your phone's been burning a hole in your pocket, angry because it wants more games. Let it feast on the four tasty morsels below. They're half the calories of a regular casual game, but all the taste. Trust us, we did research on this. With science!
Games Featured:
- • Goo Bob
- • Under the Star Night
- • Pathos
- • Black Thing
- • Evilbots
- • Rapunzel 3
Greetings, survivors of a long, hard work week. It's me, Dora! Well, um, sort of. Anyway, here's a delectable bunch of games for you to sample, complete with goo, mucus, bubbles, and robots, as well as a hint of the bizarre for good measure. Enjoy!
Write a HaikCow for your chance to win a free copy of Cow Trouble for iPhone!
Games Featured:
- • Bust-a-Move
- • Sonic Flash
- • Raiden X;
I have to tell you, the first version of this column was pretty dire. Fortunately, a team of programmers spent six months updating the elements for this Golden Platinum Article of the Year re-release. Anyway, this week, I'd like to share some of the best remakes from the JiG Vault, and a nice collection they are: a bubbly action puzzler, a sonic-booming platformer, and a truly explosive shmup.
Games Featured:
- • Yoku-Gami
- • Sticky
- • Nurikabe Vault
Looking for a little fun? Ready to start your new week of boring meetings, long classes, and other drudge-like Monday stuff? Good, 'cause neither are we. Which is why we're here to distract you with a fresh batch of iPhone games! Hooray for postponing work!
Games Featured:
- • Brutally Unfair Knytt
- • John Cube
- • heART
If you were to play one kind of game for the rest of your life, what would it be? Puzzle? Platform? Racing? If you said "awesome", you win the prize! The same prize everybody who said anything but awesome gets! Free games to play!
Games Featured:
- • Space is Key
- • Particle Wars Extreme
- • Robosockets
- • Milk Quest
- • Infinite Tower RPG
What-ho, brave weekday wayfarer! The weekend is nearly in sight, and your quest for awesome is at hand! Help bring about a fowl end to a reign of piglets, energize a group of worn-out robots, see how long you can hold out against an endless horde of monsters, and more.
Games Featured:
- • Hitchhiker's Illustrated Guide to the Galaxy
- • Transylmania
- • McDonalds Videogame
Fast food, vampires, and fatally bad poetry round out this week's edition of the Vault, where we peer into some of the older gems of the last decade. Featuring arcade action, challenging simulations of business management, and one of the most fiendish interactive fiction puzzles ever, it's a meaty feast of nostalgia.
Games Featured:
- • Princess Nuriko
- • Picma Squared
- • Crush the Castle
Hey there, logic puzzle fans who own an Android phone. If words like picross, Link-a-Pix, and hashi get your cortex humming, we've got a few presents for you!
Games Featured:
- • Fire with a Riot
- • BlockShooter
- • Futurebike
Futuristic things abound in this edition of Weekend Download! One game explicitly states it takes place in the future, while the other two you pretty much just assume they do, as squares/circles aren't self-aware enough to hate each other in the present, and flamethrower technology has some decades to go before it matches Fire with a Riot.
Games Featured:
- • The Sagittarian 2
- • Tentacle Wars: The Purple Menace
- • Gravity Boy
- • Katamari Hack
- • iStunt 2
- • Arm Surgery 2
Link Dump Friday brings you zombies, tentacles, coins, sweet tricks, and more to get your the gaming fix you need to start your weekend off right.
For a while now, we've been doing these Babylon Sticks Caption Contests as some of our You Are Games escapades. We've done seven of these contests so far, and we've had seven winners, out of over seven hundred comments. With the proper focus and concentration on the goal, the winning caption may very well come to you.
Games Featured:
- • Blockdude
- • Double Wires
- • Funny Farm;
The front of the Othello box promises that it takes "a minute to learn... a lifetime to master". Now, admittedly I've never been all that interested in spending my lifetime becoming a reversi-master (especially if Settlers of Cataan is nearby), but I think the phrasing is something that resonates with us as gamers. This week in the JayIsGames Vault, we take a peek a trio of games: puzzle, word, and platform, where the complexity hides just below the surface.
Games Featured:
- • Cow Trouble
- • KAMI RETRO
- • Land-a Panda
These games are just too cute. And when I say "too cute", I seriously mean they contain more cuteness than should be allowed. Round pandas munching on bamboo? With sound effects?! Pixel dudes hopping over cliffs? Moo cows floating on buttery clouds? SOMEBODY MAKE THE CUTENESS STOP!!! (Or, not.)
Games Featured:
- • Monica
- • Candles
- • Bun-Dun
It's time to make with the games! Or, to play the games that have been made for playing! Several fun little diversions below, and if you ignore hyphens (which, let's face it, we all do), each one has a one-word title. Isn't that... neat?
Games Featured:
- • Silk
- • Utigawa RA
- • Epic Fail
- • Ancient Powers
- • Another Cave Runner
The weekend's almost here... so we should play some games... the weekend's almost here, I think I'll play some games now! That's right, lambs and rams, it's time for another installment of Link Dump Friday, this time featuring adventure, platforming, puzzles, beauty, and exploding rabbits. Enjoy!
Games Featured:
- • Samorost
- • Deanimator
- • flOw;
This week, at the JayIsGames Vault, we have three masterpieces from the past: an other-worldly point-and-click classic, a horror shooter that won't stay down, and a tasty bowl of primordial soup.
Games Featured:
- • Traque
- • Alien Defender
- • Forbidden Brakes
A recent spat of long travel times allowed us to dig deep into Google Play Android Games and uncover a handful of really great games. The first of our findings are presented below for your gaming pleasure! Don't leave home without stocking your phone with awesomeness!
Games Featured:
- • Hindsight
- • Delta One
- • Everclimb
This edition of Weekend Download wants to look back to previous editions for inspiration. Problem is, can you really trust your hindsight? After Weekend Download played Hindsight, Weekend Download is not so sure! *bites nails*
Games Featured:
- • Go Go Sunshine
- • Fancy Pants Adventures Sneak Peek
- • Famous Objects from Classic Movies
- • Flaming Zombooka 2 Level Pack
- • The Maester's Path
Instead of games, this week's Link Dump Friday has a four-hour power-point presentation on fossil fuels, and a mandatory six page quiz after. Seriously. I wouldn't even bother clicking through if I were you. But then, I'm just arbitrary blurb flavour text. What do I know?
Games Featured:
- • Ballistic Wars
- • Launch Ball
- • A Bark in the Dark
This week's Vault is for people who don't like fast-paced gameplay, but still appreciate the finer things in life. Which is to say... really super awesome stupendous games. Here are three titles you can relax, sit back, and play at your own pace while still enjoying a challenge and some of the best work to come out of the Flash development community.
Games Featured:
- • Dirt
- • Tiny Wings
- • Catch the Lion
You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. And touch screens. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. And the edge of your iPhone. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop: Mobile Monday.
Games Featured:
- • Airwave: I Fought the Law, and the Law One
- • Another Day in the Life of Bob
- • Trials
From life sims to indie music to painfully difficult 3D games, we've got your weekend in gaming covered! Covered like your morning piece of toast! Covered like the wagon you rode in to reach Oregon! Covered like... something else that's covered!
Ready to do some riddle solving for a chance to win SpaceChem, the hyper-challenging logic puzzle game created by Zachtronics Industries? Of course you are! We've got ten copies to give away to ten random people who can solve our riddle.
Games Featured:
- • Watermelon Bomb
- • A Ride Home
- • Seven Chilled Goat
- • Safe Landing
- • What a Dream! What a Nightmare!
Good morning, internets, and welcome to your weekly serving of Link Dump Friday! Today we bring you goats (chilled, not broiled), lonely space guys, explosive fruit, and more. If that all sounds strange to you, then you're clearly not doin' it right! Sit back, relax, and start your weekend off right.
Graeme has been busy the last few months revamping his Lazylaces site and I'm pleased to announce that it's now back online and better than ever! Everyone here at Jayisgames wishes Lazylaces the best and we recommend that you stop by for a visit to see more point-and-clicks and escape games than you ever knew existed.
Games Featured:
- • Slither Link
- • Mindscape
- • Menulis and Miestas
This week's Vault tickles your brain with three different types of puzzles, ranging from a deviously simple-in-concept brain teaser to a set of surrealist explorations through one very jazzy (and inky) landscape.
Games Featured:
- • Balloon Diaspora
- • Bennu
- • Wroom
A definite "physics" theme for this edition of Weekend Download, featuring two games that bank their entire existence on force, momentum, gravity, friction, and all that sciencey stuff. Do they have what it takes to impress you, master of real world physics? Find out below!
Games Featured:
- • Pogo Swing!
- • Collapse It
- • Vectrix
- • Conway's Inferno
- • EketeKonnect
There are a lot of things we could do without, and this week's Link Dump Friday highlights some of the ways your life could be improved, such as through the judicious application of dynamite, unsafe playground behaviour, hard surfaces, and more. See, we're always looking out for you.
Fantasy University is now accepting new students interested in a social (or single-player) RPG experience! Students are expected to perform duties whenever the sock puppets ask, keep their dorms clean of Swedish Twin bedbugs, and help the professors blow up anything (or anyone) they require. Take some time out of your day to tour the scenic campus, go shopping at Rot Topic in nearby Pleasanton (mind your brains), and visit Professor Tree at Petsgo Field. (Stay out of the tall grass!) Just remember to clean up after your tiny Ben Franklins.
This week on our semi-irregular You Are Games feature, we ask you to think back to an era centuries ago. It was a time when castles were all the rage and checkerboard designs started popping up on every tapestry and tabletop. If you've got a quirky quip that works well with the Babylon Sticks comic below, post it as a comment. We'll select one as the caption for next week's feature, and we'll award a nice prize along with it.
Games Featured:
- • Treasure Box
- • Gamma Bros.
- • Thule Trail
It's been a long time since my village was destroyed. Since then, I've been on a journey that's spanned the world-map, searching for the six Medallions of Power. Now, as I place the final medallion, the Medallion of Light, I hold my breath as the stone gate slides opens... To reveal another edition of the JayIsGames Vault! Today we have a point-and-click puzzler to treasure, a pixel space shooter that's the alpha and omega, and a retro roadtrip to the coast you'll be sure to enjoy... providing you can ford the river.
Games Featured:
- • Spectral Souls
- • 1 to 50
- • Dungeon Scroll
- • Dungeon Defenders
Are you ready to be impressed? Some seriously good looking games have recently been released for Android phones, pushing the limits of what the mobile devices can accomplish, and threatening to scrape the upper limits of your data plan cap. If you can afford the price of entry, however, you can enjoy a near-console-quality game in the palms of your hands, making your phone so much more than a way to talk to grandma every Sunday.
Games Featured:
- • Incertitude
- • Technobabylon Part 1
Hello there, weekend gamer! Tired of the rest of the week sapping time that could be spent playing games? We know how you feel! Make the most of your weekend by playing a few free games. They won't demand your entire afternoon, leaving you free to kick back and play even more games!!!
Games Featured:
- • Journey to the West
- • Mooo!
- • Mecharon 2
- • Type is Art
- • Tarzan Ball
Wipe the sleep from your eyes, most cherished reader, it's time for Link Dump Friday, and games wait for no man! Jump start your brain with physics puzzles, point-and-clicks, big angry mechs, and more to help you prepare to hurdle the last obstacle to your weekend.
Wow. We covered so many games in 2010 that our Best of the Year awards turned out to be the largest feature we've ever compiled. 29 categories, hundreds of games and thousands of votes have produced the results that are now up online.
Games Featured:
- • Happy Seed
- • Loop
- • Scribbler
After some incessant needling and the exchange of certain bits of valuable information, I finally got my hands on the combination to the JayIsGames vault. Let me tell you, taking the grand tour is quite an experience: you'll find all manner of slightly-dusty but still excellent casual games. Today we'll be looking at a point-and-click advergame that puts others to shame, an adorable shockwave action game that will be sure to throw you for a loop, and an artistic webtoy that you might find a little sketchy
Games Featured:
- • Dungeon Raid
- • Smasheroid
- • Pixfall
Pop quiz: what did you have for breakfast today? Was it a bit of asteroids with a size of Puzzle Quest? Probably not, since most humans need cereal and waffles and stuff to survive. But, next time you wake up, you can supplement, you know?
Games Featured:
- • Spring - King of the Jungle
- • The Island of a God
- • YoYo
- • Greenhead
Time to invent a new word! Or, phrase, rather. Ready? "Platform Adventure Paloozathonvania"! You like? Hope so. It took hours of intense research to come up with that particular combination of letters, not to mention the trademark hoops we had to jump through to print it. But now it's there, and it describes the bulk of this week's downloadable games quite accurately.
Games Featured:
- • A Mother in Festerwood
- • The Sagittarian
- • Aliens Kidnapped Betty
- • Fifty Two
- • Intelligence: The New Enemy
Link Dump Friday wants to tug at your heartstrings with a tender tale of motherly love... and then RRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIP them out and devour them after the end of the world!... wait, no, sorry, don't know where that came from. We would never do that to you! We'd rescue you from the aliens, after all, and then we'd BLAST YOU TO SMITHEREENS WITH OUR AWESOME LAZORZ!... okay, fine, how do you show affection, smartypants?
Take a look at the cartoon to the right. Do any funny quips or bits of dialogue spring to mind as you view this unfinished comic? We want you to send them to us! Post your caption ideas as a comment, and yours could get picked to be the caption in the final version of the comic! Prizes and glory will soon follow.
Games Featured:
- • The Doors
- • Defend Your Castle
- • Battleships
The Vault is seemingly endless, which is awesome! It means there are soooo many fabulous games to revisit. It's like Washington's Library of Congress in here, only funner. And unlike Grandma's photo albums crammed full of awkward family photos, there are no cringe moments when you revisit some old time Flash games. So let's pull up our ergonomic computer chairs, grab our Manually-Operated User-Selection Equipments and enjoy an interactive look at this week's Vault offerings.
Games Featured:
- • Spaghetti and Marshmallows
- • Genetics
- • Atomic Bomber
Hey there Android gamers! Miss me? Well fear no more, as I, the Android Game Finding Android have returned with more games for the mobile scene! The Marketplace has enjoyed a healthy surge of content in the last month or so, and I have poked and prodded my robotic nose through those releases to find the best of the best so I can share them with you. Now, since I'm sharing something, will you share that ice cream sandwich with me?
Games Featured:
- • Tiny Barbarian
- • Dimension Jump
- • Ammo Roar
Baby barbarians, guns with serious kickback, and a little guy who can travel between dimensions as easily as we eat pancakes. That can only mean one thing: somebody switched out my Flintstone vitamins with an off-brand replacement!!!
Games Featured:
- • Akinator
- • Wolfenstein 1D
- • Robot Clashes
- • Microcosmic Shooter
- • Riddles of Renaissance
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING JAY IS GAAAAAAAAAAMES! Robin Williams would agree; start your day off with a smile, and things will always look better. This week's assemblage of Link Dump Friday gems covers everything from a magical housefly to a genie with encyclopedic knowledge to tiny, tiny bullets.
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