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Games Featured:
- • Get the Glass
- • Bodilies
- • Tower Bloxx
What do we love? Stories, addictive simple gameplay, and... milk? Hm! The Vault caters to all kinds of tastes, and this week features a look at one of the simplest but most addictive stacking games around, a remarkably fun and silly board game designed to promote bone strength, and a point-and-click adventure originally conceived as a class project.
Another year has come and gone, and while you might be ready for 2011 to rock you like a hurricane, let's not forget the past so soon. We happen to think 2010 deserves a bit more than a parting affectionate fist-bump or an awkward promise to keep in touch. That's right, dear reader; it's time for the Best of 2010, where you and others like you with a passion for games, creativity, innovation, and fun come together to vote for the best of the best in every category.
Games Featured:
- • iMamonoSweeper
- • Astronut
- • Plunderland
It's... time! Time to sell bits and pieces of your time in exchange for blissful entertainment! Time to fill boring train rides, long queues at the post office, and somber evenings when you're supposed to be doing homework with... games! And we've got three games that are what we like to call "fun". Go on, give 'em a try!
Games Featured:
- • Pixel Force: Halo
- • Anyman
- • Kruunu
Another weekend, another round of games! This edition features an accidental theme of retro-style games. Oops! Hope you're not mad at Weekend Download. Because if you are, you only get one hug from Weekend Download instead of two.
Games Featured:
- • Super Mega Bot
- • Ornament Key
- • Pinocchio
- • Tesla Death Ray
- • Lofty Tower 2
It's time for another installment of Link Dump Friday! Surely you know the drill. You don't need me. I'll leave you to your bouncy robots, your ancient temples, your ghost-on-a-leash, and your unsafe levels of electricity. I'm just gonna... lie down here for a sec... and rest my eyes... whoooo, what a week!
Games Featured:
- • Escape Series #1: The Car
- • Feed the Head
- • Luminara
What-what in the Vault? This week we crack open the archives to peer blearily into the past at the very beginning of one of the simplest but best escape series around, take a peek inside the cranium of one very strange webtoy, and rip things up jmtb02 style with one seriously flashy shooter.
Games Featured:
- • Mad Skills Motocross
- • Burn the Rope
- • kijjaa!
- • GeoSpin
There's a lot of crazy stuff to play in this edition of Mobile Monday. Seriously, if you're in a bad mood, or if you haven't smiled yet today, you probably shouldn't even read about these games. 'Cause they're wacky.
Games Featured:
- • Darkfate
- • Super Smash Land
- • Jigsaw
Demakes are the new remakes, and remakes used to be the new... makes? Whatever. Anyway, as gamers, we're eating up these indie projects that come along and remake our favorite games as if they existed on older hardware. Something about those blocky pixels and simplified music makes the blood flow.
Games Featured:
- • Super PSTW Action RPG
- • Fade
- • Three Blind Mice
- • Man in Gap
- • WordSquared
Link Dump Friday has been canceled, strangely enough, but there are still some things you can do to amuse yourself. Like press the spacebar, race a llama, knock over some blocks, or contort yourself into painful positions to avoid an even more painful end, to name just a few. No matter what you think, this Link Dump Friday is NOT Link Dump Friday. It's Link Dump Friday. Geez, get it right!
Now, feast your eyes on the giant comic for you to caption. (Giant. Geddit?) What's the funniest punchline you can come up with to go along with the picture? Let us know! Post your caption ideas in the comments box below, it just could be featured in next week's Babylon Sticks, and you'll receive a nice prize for your troubles!
Games Featured:
- • Seed
- • The Tall Stump
- • 3D Logic 2
The Vault takes a stop in 2007 and reminds you of the splendors to be found within The Tall Stump, the brainbending puzzles awaiting in 3D Logic 2, and the simple colourful joy that Seed offers. It's some of Dora's personal picks, and just the tip of the iceberg in a year of pure, undiluted awesomeness.
Games Featured:
- • Perfect Cell
- • Rocknor's Donut Factory
- • Wizard Hex
- • Pixel Ninja!
Ever had the feeling an app was following you? Like, if you go to make a cup of tea late at night, it's sitting there on the counter. Or if you make a blanket fort, it's there, pretending it did half the work. One of the apps below will follow you. Be careful.
Games Featured:
- • FRACT
- • Cities of Day and Night
- • City of Doom
- • How
So many games about cities, so little time! Whether you want a city that can't decide whether it's light or dark outside, a city that's infested with bugs, a city made out of colorful polygons, or, um, a city that's... not a city at all with blocks that change color... you're pretty much covered for the weekend!
Contest time! Nifflas' new game, NightSky, is out, and we're celebrating by giving away ten bundles of the game + soundtrack! NightSky combines a bit of puzzle solving, a bit of platforming, and a lot of physics. You control an orb that has a few special powers that helps it traverse the dark yet beautiful landscape. Enter to win a free copy!
The standard edition of Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull is out, so to celebrate, we're giving away copies of the game all weekend long! All you have to do is solve our little hidden object puzzle. Think you can manage it?
Games Featured:
- • Paranormal Shark Activity
- • Bearbound
- • Evolving Machine
- • Berzerk Ball
- • Effing Meteors
This week your one and only Link Dump Friday serves up a tasty portion of ravenous sharks, sleep deprived bears, baseball bats, geeks, and everything else you need for a well balanced weekend. Well, apart from food, water, shelter, and direct social and emotional contact. But hey, forget about that. GAMES!
Games Featured:
- • Viridian Room
- • Warthog Launch
- • BLiX
I ventured down to The Vault last night to see what I could dig up from the dusty old shelves down there, and I'm sure you're going to like what I found! Although these games haven't been in the limelight for quite some time now, they're still classics as far as browser games go and everyone should enjoy them at least a couple dozen times! Featured below is a room escape, an arcade game and one of the first physics puzzle browser games I ever played.
Games Featured:
- • Kubrick
- • Mind Wall
- • Geared 2
Wowee wow wow! It's a new year! Erm... now what? Isn't something supposed to happen now? Lightning bolts? Umm... cake? How about some nice puzzle games? Ok, that's cool, we'll do that!
Here is our massive walkthrough guide for Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers! Everything you need to get through the game is here, including a lot of spoilers, so proceed at your own risk.
Games Featured:
- • Ninja Senki
- • Survivor: The Living Dead
- • suteF
It's the first Weekend Download of the new year! We should celebrate or something, shouldn't we? How about with showers of gold, rainbows and candy? Mmm, tempting, but difficult. Our airship is in the shop. What about with a bunch of games that celebrate retro gaming mechanics?! Perfect!
We've finally made it to the final day of the Humble Indie Scramble! Over the past week we've given away several Humble Indie Bundles to competitors who have the wits to unscramble a medley of anagrammed game titles and the good fortune to win a random drawing.We've promised some tricky twists for the big finale, and today, we're ready to deliver.
Games Featured:
- • Time Pygmy
- • Rush
- • Distance
- • Spikes Tend to Kill You
- • SHIFT: Freedom!
On this last Friday (and Link Dump Friday!) of 2010, take the time to indulge in a little pygmy love before the new year. Or maybe you prefer hurling yourself onto spikes? Flipping dimensions and/or gravity? Or maybe you prefer things a little more contemplative? One of these games is not like the others.
After nearly a week of giving away Humble Indie Bundles, we're finally starting to wind down the contest. We'll post the grand finale puzzle tomorrow, and we promise it will be significantly bigger than anything else significantly smaller than it. In the meantime, we've got another puzzle for you today.
If you've been playing along with the Humble Indie Scramble so far this week, you're probably familiar with the drill by now. Split one anagram with three game titles, enter for a shot at a Humble Indie Bundle, which are no longer available so your best chance at getting one is with us. But from here on in, expect some twists.
The second installment of the Humble Indie Bundle might not be available on the Internet's store shelves anymore, but we're still looking to give away a few more copies! If you want a shot at a shiny new Bundle, all you have to do is split the muddled-up anagram into three titles of games we've featured in the past and send in your response. We've had three winners so far this week, and you could be the next!
Games Featured:
- • Fly Guy
- • TinyGrow
- • Hell of Sand
The holidays may be over, but that doesn't mean it's time to stop playing with toys. This week's edition of The Vault features some of the best webtoys you'll find, touching on artistic expression, creativity, and even just plain ol' jaw-dropping surreality.
Want to win a Humble Indie Bundle on our tab? While the bundles are no longer available, we managed to scarf up a few before the deadline and now giving you the opportunity to win one. And we've got a puzzle with your name on it. That is, of course, if your name happens to be Scramble.
Games Featured:
- • Osmos
- • World of Goo
- • Corpse Craft
- • Drawn: The Painted Tower HD
Are you one of the estimated 6 million new iPad owners this holiday season? Or was it just new socks and a cheesy sweater this year? We've been keeping up with the gaming scene on Apple's really big touch screen device, and we're pleased to report there are several great reasons to part with some cash in exchange for a great gaming experience.
Day two of our mixed up Humble Indie Bundle giveaway has arrived. We've got a new puzzle for you to tackle today. Remember, your goal is to find the three game titles muddled up in the anagram that correspond to the clues. Think you know the answer? Send the three game titles to us and you could win a santa's pack chock full of great games.
How would you like a chance to get your hands on the Humble Indie Bundle for free? As luck would have it, we've got a few copies we'd like to give away. As misfortune would have it, there's a wicked little puzzle standing in the way. (Don't worry, it's a fun one though.)
Games Featured:
- • Brogue
- • Smart Kobold
- • LEDom
Roguelikes seem to be a lost love amongst most modern gamers. "Give me simplicity!" they cry, "Give me pretty pictures!", "Let me play without reading a manual or memorizing commands!". Well, while they sit in the corner and play FarmVille, we'll settle down with our deliciously intriguing dungeon crawling RPGs of yore. Even though the glory days of Nethack are gone, the roguelike is alive and very well today, and there are a number of great projects that aim to bridge the gap between fans and non-fans so that everyone can enjoy the deep satisfaction of exploring the unknown.
A special edition of our weekly Link Dump Friday feature has become a bit of a tradition here at JIG, a seasonal gift to our readers chock full of puzzles, escapes, platformers, more escapes, new games and old to bring joy to your holidays. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good browser game!
Take a gander at the festive Babylon Sticks comic created by our resident toonmeister, James Francis. Can you come up with a party-worthy punchline to fit the scene? If you think you've got one, post a comment below and you could win an Humble Indie Bundle!
Games Featured:
- • Saltacol
- • Chasm
- • Spybot: The Nightfall Incident
Selections from The Vault for this week are 3 of my all-time favorite games, and I'm thrilled to be able to share them with you again. All three of these gems have long-lasting appeal: a puzzling platformer, a short yet challenging point-and-click adventure, and a remarkably futuristic turn-based strategy game. Individually, each of these games represents a tremendous achievement in browser-based casual gameplay and if you've never played them before, you're in for a real treat.
We've teamed up with Berzerk Studios to offer you a chance to be a part of Berzerk Ball, the follow-up to the Homerun in Berzerk Land! Not only that, you can win one of four iTunes Gift Cards, each worth $25! Continue reading for more details...
The winners of our Bejeweled 3 netbook giveaway!
Games Featured:
- • Riven
- • Hook Worlds
- • QWOP
- • Trade Nations
A truly epic Mobile Monday this week, as we've got some huge iPhone game releases along with the results of our drawing last week! The name "Myst" will perk anyone's eyes up, and recently that game's sequel, Riven, was released on the mobile platform. And it's excellent! Combine that with a new game from the creator of Hook Champ, a hilarious browser game hitting iOS, and one of the best freemium city building App Store release so far, and you've got more than enough reasons to stay curled in bed playing iPhone games all morning long.
Games Featured:
- • Gravity Garden
- • Dacey in the Dark
- • Stargirl and the Thief from the Exploded Moon
It's the last weekend before Christmas, so a lot of people are out shopping for presents and such. Not us. We're sitting inside playing games. All. Weekend. Long! Take that, thinly-veiled incentives to buy gifts!
It's bundle time again! Following the massive success of the original Humble Indie Bundle as well as The Indie Love Bundle(s), The Humble Indie Bundle #2 comes along with five great indie games, each available for Mac, Windows and Linux, with no DRM and a price tag of whatever you want to pay. Yay!
Games Featured:
- • No Time To Explain!
- • Camelot Smashalot
- • Hurry Up Bob!!!
- • Lame Castle
- • Night Adventure of Sleepwalker
Link Dump Friday brings you some of the silliest and the weirdest games from around the web to brighten your day. Featuring miners in peril, rampaging alien crabs, ballistic livestock (or rather, livestock as ballistics), and the noblest steed a knight could ever wish for, it's like some fantastic potpourri of craziness. Just try not to inhale too deeply.
Games Featured:
- • Grrr Game
- • Thinking Machine 4
- • Small Forest Story
Stop and smell the roses... the pixelated ones, that is! This week's Vault offers you up a selection of some of the loveliest games you might not expect to stumble across, from an intelligent game of chess, to a rabbit's quest to destroy negativity, to a little bit of holiday cheer in one itty bitty package.
Games Featured:
- • Clock Blocks
- • Blind World
- • Flight of Fire
- • Dice Ball
- • Super Blast 2
It's time for some freebies! Below, you'll see a little game titled Clock Blocks. Thanks to the developer 80d Games, we have three promo codes to give away to three random people! All you have to do is sign in below with a Casual Gameplay account and leave a comment on this page. We'll draw three names at random and announce the winners on next week's Mobile Monday. Simple!
Games Featured:
- • Steel Storm
- • They Come out at Night
- • Rocky Memphis and the Temple of Ophuxoff
Helpful tip for humans: if you ever find yourself in inclement weather, such as the rare steel storm that only comes out at night, seek shelter in the nearest building. If you can, find the Temple of Leemeealeaun, as it offers the best protection from these dangerous conditions.
Games Featured:
- • Mountain Maniac X-Mas
- • Fallen From The Moon
- • Dungeon Developer
- • Jumpless
- • Star Catcher
Link Dump Friday's got your back with yet another installment of all the games you didn't know you needed until today. Why, using Link Dump Friday, you'll be prepared for space travel, medieval architecture, proper hammer usage... heck, you'll even figure out what to do if your legs suddenly start refusing to bend at the knee! This isn't just a weekly feature... it could save your life one day. You're welcome.
Another installment of You Are Games, another installment of the Babylon Sticks Caption Contest. We're asking you to supply a punchline for another Babylon Sticks comic. It's humorous on its own, but it needs a caption to really drive the hilarity home. Submit your ideas as comments, as many ideas as you'd like, but remember to keep them game-related! All entries are due by Monday, December 13th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00).
Our 9th competition today is concluded with the awarding of prizes as well as honoring all of the games that were entered. The "friends" theme was represented well, and one entry moved our emotions and some to tears with its heartfelt symbolism and imagery.
Games Featured:
- • Climate Chaos
- • Tri-Achnid
- • Escape to Obion
This week's installment of The Vault takes you on an adventure... three of them, in fact! We've brought out three of our favourite games that best capture the spirit of adventure, and are just the thing to check out if you could use a little escape from your everyday life. And who better to take you on that journey than a fluffy blue rabbit, a morose arachnid lifeform, and an evil mastermind? Sounds like a fun group to us.
Games Featured:
- • Lame Castle
- • Master of Alchemy
- • Kosmo Spin
As the holiday season approaches, game developers start rolling out the big guns. Today's selection features some great-looking games that provide tons of entertainment, all packed neatly in their tiny little iPhone packages. Ain't they cute? Yes, yes they are cute.
Games Featured:
- • BatMan
- • Walk with Jack
- • The Sense of Connectedness
Here's a bit of a blast from the past for you: BatMan. Not Christopher Nolan's dark, brooding Batman, not even Tim Burton's interpretation of the caped crusader. This is old-school Batman with old-school gameplay, and you'll love every minute of it! Where does he get those wonderful toys, anyway?
Oh joyful day! It's time for a contest! And not just any contest, either. We've teamed up with PopCap to celebrate the impending release of Bejeweled 3! Our original idea was to run a contest where the prizes included high fives and fist bumps, but then we decided to up the ante. How "up" did we up it? How about a Bejeweled-emblazoned netbook for the winner?!
Games Featured:
- • Love
- • Flaming Zombooka 2
- • Momiga
- • Morphing
- • Training Set
It's the start of a brand new month, and we're going to kick things off with another batch of cherry-picked titles here at your one and only Link Dump Friday. Featuring zombies, silent judgement, true (but conditional) love, floating eyeballs, and one very tricky little white dot, it's a strange but very creative batch.
Games Featured:
- • Hanafuda
- • Flip Out!
- • Puzzle Pirates
The theme of The Vault this week is replay, featuring Hanafuda, Flip Out!, and Puzzle Pirates. Some games get their own special place in our bookmarks or game folder and have us coming back to play again and again, year after year. Okay, well... maybe the theme should be obsession... ?
Games Featured:
- • Deep Deep Dungeon
- • Today I Die
- • Death Worm
- • Winterbells
Ready to get lost in a dungeon? We've got a casual dungeon crawler that's packed with things to do, allowing you to delve deeper and deeper into the labyrinths as you continue questing for loot until the cows come home. Or until your bus ride ends.
Games Featured:
- • Cave of No Return
- • A Walk in the Forest
- • Factorium
And we have returned! After this author experienced a little lumbar calamity, Weekend Download is back and more weekendey than ever! So, what are your plans for the weekend? A light hoverboard ride through the forest? A teensy jog through a cave? A plain and simple walk through the forest? Or, just maybe, if you're feeling wacky, all of the above?!
Games Featured:
- • Sleep Walk
- • Super Pixel Knight
- • The Undead Survival Test
- • Blow Things Up
- • Polar PWND 2
If you're there and I'm here, then this must be my favourite day of the week! This week on Link Dump Friday we bring you not one, but TWO doses of penguins, a knight, some beasties, slavering zombie survival tests, and high explosives. Now that sounds like my kind of party.
In this installment of You Are Games, we're calling upon you, our loyal readers, to scratch your funny bone where it itches and create the caption for another Babylon Sticks comic created by James Francis. Submit your ideas as comments, as many ideas as you'd like, but remember to keep them game-related! All entries are due by Monday, November 29th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00).
Games Featured:
- • Dolphin Olympics
- • Gateway
- • Ayiti: the Cost of Life
This week's episode of the Vault features robotic puzzles, high-flying mammals and fast-paced arcade gameplay, and proof that you have it better than you think you do in one of the trickiest (and perhaps most subtly thought-provoking) simulation games on the web. It's Dolphin Olympics, Gateway, and Ayiti: the Cost of Life!
Doodle Devil is here and, as promised, we have it here first! The sequel to the amazingly popular Doodle God is now out in a Flash version for all those without a smartphone. More Doodle God is never a bad thing, and even though Doodle Devil doesn't reinvent the alchemical wheel, there's still plenty to love. The series distills a very basic element found at the core of all video games: exploration and discovery.
Games Featured:
- • Puzzling War
- • Momentum
- • Tiny Massive Galaxy
- • Three Little Cats
- • Radio Zed
The week is long and hard, but just when it seems like you won't make it, Link Dump Friday appears with an injection of awesome to boost you through to your weekend! This week we bring you one mean wolf, alien cannibalism, robots in experimental servitude, and zombie uprisings! If that isn't adorable and kid-friendly, we don't know what is! Come to think of it, this might explain why we're not allowed to babysit anymore... something about a nightmare, I'unno...
Casual Gameplay Design Competition #9 games are now ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time. If you wish to help judge the competition, read the rules and sign up here.
Games Featured:
- • Net
- • Hapland
- • Shift
What makes a puzzle? This week's edition of The Vault has three examples that prove a puzzle isn't just about crunching numbers or smooshing the corners of a jigsaw piece to make it fit where it doesn't belong. Featuring a randomly generated brain teaser, a stickman with multiple potential horrible fates, and something simply soothing, we've got something for everyone. Unless what you're into is zombified pirate pony sudoku. Sorry. Maybe next time.
You have just under 24 hours left to get your games finished up and submitted in time for our 9th Casual Gameplay Design Competition. Remember that updates and bug fixes are permitted throughout the competition period, which begins on Tuesday and runs through December 6th. So get your games into a playable state and send them in. Don't forget to fill out the official CGDC9 Entry Form. Please be sure to read all the rules and guidelines for this competition before submitting an entry.
Games Featured:
- • SteamBirds
- • Smurf's Village
- • Word Micester
- • Sir Lovalot
There are three things in this universe you cannot ignore: a zombie apocalypse where the zombies are part ninja, part robot, and on fire, free bacon, and a game release with not one but multiple all-star developers working behind the scenes. And SteamBirds is the latter, so practice your non-ignoring skills today!
Games Featured:
- • Octodad
- • Snakes of Avalon
- • Maze of Space
Confession: every writer behind the scenes at JIG is secretly some kind of mollusc. We hide it quite well, wearing suits and blazers and little thingies in our hair. But when you watch us walk, you start to wonder if something's a bit off. When you see us dance, you're sure of it.
Games Featured:
- • 60 Second Life
- • Giraffe Got Game
- • Bird Pax 2
- • Pig Detective
- • Monkey and Secret Army
This week on Link Dump Friday; crime-solving pigs, laser-shooting giraffe, giant crabs, card-playing birds, and the strangest animal of all... humans! It's a lineup featuring everything from point-and-click puzzles to fast-paced arcade action with a little addictive multiplayer card playing in. You're bound to find something to start your weekend off right!
Games Featured:
- • Combat Heaven
- • Pod Panic
- • PixelHugger in the Field of Typography
They say that games are like cheese - they get better (and smellier) with age. I've got some excellent vintage games in my little corner of The Vault, and you're free to enjoy them...once you get past my nefarious gauntlet of traps! I've got pits, hungry tigers, mimes...my depravity knows no bounds.
Games Featured:
- • Flee
- • Alchemy Classic
- • My Personal Memory Trainer
- • Gravity Lander;
A little alchemy to go with your high-speed car drive out of town? Maybe you're more the brainy type. You know, the kind that goes to space with other cosmonauts, vacuums the shuttle while some all-powerful being guides you to the surface of alien planets. Either way, we've got you covered. Provided "covering" you means providing you with Android games. Which, well, that's how we meant it, so... there!
Games Featured:
- • Light Arrow
- • A House in California
- • Great Migrations
Time for stuff! With the notable exception of Great Migrations, the games in this edition of Weekend Download seem to be dominated by white on black landscapes. Old school throwback or conscious atmospheric design choice? To that question I answer: yes!
Games Featured:
- • Tree Fender
- • Supermax
- • Tetravalanche
- • Snow White: Dark Curse
- • Underworld Army - Episode 1
I got sunshine on a cloudy day... when it's cold outside... I got the month of May... Well I guess you'll say, what can make me feel this way?... Friday, Friday! Talkin' 'bout... Friday! Link Dump Friday, that is! This week we bring you giant purple monsters, angry golems, twisted fairy tales, and maximum security prisons. Awww... almost enough to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, isn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Gold Miner
- • Fishy!
- • Geosense
This week's Vault contains some real oldies-but-goodies. Browse through an assortment of classic addictive gameplay as you mine for gold, eat some fish, and top it off with a sprinkle of geography. It's all there for your recommended daily gaming consumption!
Games Featured:
- • WackyLands Boss
- • Linkoidz
- • No, Human
- • ChuChu Rocket
There's sort of a general spacey, puzzley, anti-human thing going on in this edition of Mobile Monday. It certainly wasn't planned, of course, there just happened to be several games released at about the same time that included, you know, things that hate humans and let you play as them. Honest!
From all of us here at JIG and Casual Gameplay, we wish you a very happy and safe (and scary!) Halloween 2010!
Games Featured:
- • Sp.A.I.
- • Dear Agent
- • Eternal Dusk
- • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Hey, you, weekend gamer. You want I should share games with you? You want they should be uh, fun? Good. Because I have games that are fun. RPG fun. Puzzle fun. Lasers fun. Lantern fun. What? You think lanterns are no fun? You think "flashlight.app" is more fun? Hmm. You need to play with lanterns more often, I think...
Games Featured:
- • Undead Highway
- • Vorago
- • Graveyard Maniacs
- • Pumpkin Remover 2
- • Werewolf
It's a special themed edition of Link Dump Friday, bringing you all the treats and none of the tricks for this Halloween season! Featuring a medley of seasonal games that range from scary to simply cute, you're bound to find something to get you in the mood for the upcoming holiday. (No, we're not trying to butter you up to bring us candy... why would you think that?... but is it working?)
Games Featured:
- • The Telephone
- • The House
- • Safeplaces
"Will you step into my vault?" said the joye to the JayIsGames readers. And there she stopped, because the idea of attempting to parody the entire poem was the scariest thing she'd heard of this Halloween season. Nothing else could compare. Certainly not these three games. Nope. No disturbing underbelly to any of THESE games. Just pure, innocent Tuesday goodness.
Games Featured:
- • The Manhole
- • UFO on Tape
- • Go Native!
- • Tibia ME
More games, more diversity! This week's edition of Mobile Monday has you chasing UFOs, competing in popularity contests, and listening to bad poetry from pigs wearing armor. We dare you to claim you're bored!
Games Featured:
- • Magnesian
- • Super Crate Box
- • Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch
- • Dustforce!
What's the most entertaining household object you can think of? Did you say "wooden crate"? Or, perhaps, "magnet"? "Broom"? You probably did, and since you did, you are rewarded with games that use said entertaining objects to provide even more entertainment in a digital, computerized form.
Games Featured:
- • Squawk
- • Temple Glider
- • w00t Fish
- • Stray Cat
- • Yura&Myu Escape 1
This week on Link Dump Friday we take a look at some of our friends from the animal kingdom. From mummified birds to pirate parrots to fish whose only desire is to submerge themselves in gooey pink fluid, we've got a fresh batch of video games that showcase animals doing what animals do best; being complete weirdos.
We're offering up a caption contest in which you get to fill in the caption for one James Francis' Babylon Sticks comics, made especially for us here at JIG. So roll up your sleeves, put your funny tinfoil thinking caps on and jump start the braincells. It's caption contest time!
Games Featured:
- • Wake-up Calls
- • The Museum
- • iSketch
- • Levers
This week from the Vault we revisit a few games that excel in the area of artistic expression. Flash and other browser-based games have truly emerged as an art-form unto themselves, and it's a pleasure to be able to share some of our favorites that embody the creativity, heart and soul of developers who create browser-based casual gameplay.
Games Featured:
- • Game Dev Story
- • Cut the Rope
- • Stoneship: The Curse of a Thousand Islands
- • Shibuya
One day, I will release an iPhone game. It will be a game about writing articles about iPhone games. You'll have to play a ton of games, try to manage your rage when yet another burp/bikini/fart app appears, and cry tears of joy when something original appears. After selecting your games, you'll sit down and compose an article complete with gorgeous screenshots and flowery prose as an introduction paragraph. When you're finished, you can make a game about writing iPhone game articles in the game and start the process anew. It will be the greatest, most infinite iPhone game ever!
Games Featured:
- • Inside Job
- • Sanctum
- • Remaddening
Fooling around with the titles of this week's selection of games, I discovered something unusual. If you rearrange the letters, you can create the phrase "a decarbonised djinn met musing". Now, that may seem a bit random on the surface, but if you think about it (especially if you're a djinn who has had his carbon removed), you'll either go mad or realize it's kind of a funny thing. But, whatever... GAMES!
Games Featured:
- • Professor Spelunkington
- • The Search for WondLa
- • The Roomz: Eclipse
- • Battle Shift
- • Get Home
This week on Link Dump Friday, delve deep into caves for money and love, solve a series of ridiculously difficult puzzles, take on an ever-changing boss, and more! It's one of the most varied installments in your favourite Friday JiG feature to date, with platforming, point-and-clicks, puzzles, action, and even art.
Games Featured:
- • Kao Fu-Sen
- • Peasant's Quest
- • Tork
This week from The Vault, we bring you a selection of games bearing the most important quality you can hope for; weirdness. From a girl whose head decides to float away, to a peasant who doesn't smell like he should, and more, we've got all the strangeness (and all the fun) to make your week right, and all straight from The Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Cubes
- • Buka
- • Amtalee
- • Glow Puzzle
Simple action and puzzle games have long been the staple of gamers, especially in the early days of computing. The Android platform is obviously getting stocked by coders who grew up in this era, as the marketplace is packed with simple, engaging games that strip excess content away in favor of pure, unfettered gaming.
Games Featured:
- • Space Funeral
- • Cell.Protect
- • Streemerz 2
Video games have existed for so long, game parodies have begun to take hold. Those parodies have been around for so long, they're morphing into full, respectable games. Those full, respectable games are aging quite nicely, producing subtle bits of gaming candy like Space Funeral below!
Games Featured:
- • Summit
- • PC.DEfense
- • Ragdoll Spree
- • Halo 2600
- • Haiku Hero
This week on Link Dump Friday; zen poetry, life-or-death dwarven platforming, an Amiga in distress, and more ragdolls than you can shake your whatever at. It's a veritable smorgasboard of internet delight, and it's all for you!
The 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition is here! Yes, the competition that brought us such interactive fiction classics as Violet, Lost Pig, Floatpoint, and Slouching Towards Bedlam is back with 26 new games, 23 of which can be played in the comfort of your browser. Voting will end November 15, 2010, so get your votes in now if you want to help choose the next winner!
It's the winners of our 'Build Your Own Bundle' contest!
Games Featured:
- • Mystery of Time and Space
- • Replicator
- • Motherload
It's Tuesday, so it's time for another installment of The Vault, your guide to some of the brightest gems we've showcased in the past. This week, we feature games from three different popular genres with a spacey-type theme that fans shouldn't miss; arcade, escape, and puzzle.
Games Featured:
- • Time Crisis 2nd Strike
- • Bit.Trip Beat
- • Leap Sheep
Oh happy day! It's tough to resist a classic arcade game making its way to a mobile phone. So, no resisting took place and Time Crisis was immediately obtained. Another excellent game makes the transition from non-mobile to mobile this week, and it's another one you should allow temptation to get the better of resistance and obtain!
Games Featured:
- • Gobber Assault
- • Zymo
- • Pheon
We've got three very special games for you this weekend! Special because they're all retro in style, but also special because they're really good and can be played over and over and over again and still provide loads of fun.
Games Featured:
- • Gearlock Episode 1
- • Evolution
- • Romeo and Juliet
- • Whale of Noise
- • Escape the Ladies Room
This week on Link Dump Friday; artsy whales, pandas and cavemen, historical romance, and a survival guide for public facilities. We've got you covered in every emergency! You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to pilot an airship, but the next time you're bombarded by pirates, you'll be ready for them!
Games Featured:
- • The Asylum
- • The Dark Room
- • Nanaca Crash
It's the inaugural edition of The Vault, a brand new weekly feature designed to highlight some of the best games we've come across in the history of JayisGames. This week we bring you one of the best (and craziest) launch titles the internet has ever known, a surprisingly emotional point-and-click puzzle about an asylum full of toys, and one of the most beautiful puzzles you'll ever come across.
Games Featured:
- • Pocket Frogs
- • Red Card Rampage
- • Beyond Ynth
- • Knightfall: Death and Taxes
PENALTY! You have been caught pocketing frogs with the intention of carrying them beyond the borders of Ynth. Go straight to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. You lose all AP for this round. Bad player, BAD!
It's contest time! Want a free Indie Love Bundle? 'Course you do! Come up with your own creative kind of "bundle" and leave it in our comments. We'll choose ten winners to receive a load of free indie games!
Games Featured:
- • The Hive
- • The Myth of Sisyphus
- • TimeStill 2
- • Cenfinity
More games to help your weekend be more weekend-ey than ever! The first item on the list will keep you occupied for several hours, a somewhat rare thing with games of its quality. The rest are great for short spurts or long marathons, whatever helps you get the best score!
Games Featured:
- • iZZi
- • Stonepunk
- • Neco Touch
- • Dreamgate Escape
- • Jabberwocky, The Shepherd of Slimes
This week on Link Dump Friday, we submit to you a variety of cute titles for you to coo over, and one absolutely, ridiculously cheesy-scary horror escape game designed to make you spill coffee all over yourself. We do this because we love you. You'll thank us one day.
We are pleased to announce the next Casual Gameplay Design Competition! For CGDC #9 we are teaming up with our friends at Electronic Arts' EA2D studio and asking that you design a game around this theme: FRIENDS. You may use any browser-based technology platform you are comfortable with (Flash, Unity, Javascript/HTML5, etc.)! Please read the official competition announcement for all the rules and details.
Games Featured:
- • Trap!
- • Missing
- • The Elements
- • Fruit Ninja
How about some more Android games? Several great time wasters in this edition of Mobile Monday, including a release anyone who has ever played a Flash game will recognize: The Elements. Gotta love playing with lava on your phone!
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