Fugdale’s Funhouse

Review: Let’s take a cosmic trip to outer space, shall we? You start out as a tiny meteor floating around in the cosmos. As you move next to smaller meteors, they will gravitate towards you. When you collide with a smaller planet or rock, your meteor will absorb it and grow a little larger. Eventually, your tiny rock will grow to the size of a small planet and you will be able to absorb planets that are a little larger. On later levels you progress to the size of the sun and even bigger.

You must, however, avoid the gravitational pull of larger planets (which tend to collect in the middle of the playing field. If you get too close to one of them, it’s gravitational force will start to suck you towards it. If you hit a larger planet you will revert to your original size and will have to start the level over again.

As a strategy, I found it easiest to float around the edges of the screen at first (near the white borders) and absorb as many smaller rocks as you can. Then when you have reached a medium size, start to move toward the larger planets. You will probably find that the gravitational pull of the larger planets will have you pressing the arrow keys very hard trying to avoid the sucking power. Just remember, you only need to press them softly and just avoid close proximity with huge planets until you can match their size.

After you have cleared all the planets on a level you will progress to further levels with even larger planets and stars to contend with. The game is little more than a collect and avoid challenge and you will find it’s pretty easy to pick up if you just take your time and move slowly around the screen. If you aren’t sure which planets are larger or smaller, just stop moving for a moment. If a planet is larger, you will start to move towards it. If it is smaller, it will start to move towards you.

Review: This little treat for the holidays has a magnificent design and easy intuitive game play. Guide your frisky polar bear into the air. He will springboard even higher every time you touch a falling ice cube. The ice cubes with items inside of them bump you higher and the flying airplanes even higher. The path of ice cubes keeps on coming down and you can easily get your polar bear to nose bleed heights in no time. But take care as he starts to fall, once an ice cube drops off the bottom of the screen it disappears, so make sure you leave a few ice cubes below the bear so he has a little safety net.

This game only plays once…a test of flying skills and then you receive a final score. The graphics and sound effects are splendid. The Polar Bear reacts just like a flying polar bear should react. When he eventually takes the massive fall to the ground, never fear. He will land with a plop and spin around completely unharmed.

Review: This game has a pretty original concept. You stand in a deserted wasteland. You resemble a stick in the ground or a tree stump of sorts. Below the screen you have a limited number of growth spurts you can choose from on each level. Each growth spurt grows your tree in different ways. For example, one button grows all branches straight out; another splits each branch off into a fork; and others only grow the right branches or the left branches.

Floating above, you will find several gold rings. You need to grow the branches of your tree in such a way that you can capture all the rings by moving your branches through the center of each ring. You only have so many moves you can make on each level to accomplish this task. The first 5 levels won’t give anyone too much trouble, but after that, things start getting more complicated and the game starts throwing obstacles in the way as well, such as sparklers which ignite your tree and burn it to the ground. Luckily you can restart any level if you mess up or if your tree burns down. And you don’t have a time limit to complete the task so you can take your time and try to figure out the best combination of moves to make to captures all the rings.

The game has 16 levels and as long as you play using the same browser the game will remember your progress when you come back. Give this unique puzzler a twist. It’s great for arbor day fun.