Fugdale’s Funhouse

Now you see me…Now you don’t. We’ve got 3 fun games today which all feature invisibility. All three games require you to maneuver or shoot with an invisible cursor. So Mr. or Ms. Invisible…it’s time to unwrap your bandages and disappear from view!

Today’s Games

Cursor Invisible

Invisibility

The Invisible Quest

Cursor Invisible - Break Plates

You get three seconds to locate your cursor and remember its position. Then it turns invisible. You then have to smash as many gray plates as you can by clicking on them. You will be given 3-5 plates at a time, scattered about the playing field. The plates will overlap sometimes as well.

Speed becomes important in this game because if you wait longer than about 3 seconds to hit the next plate, the game will end. If you click anywhere other than on a plate, your game will end. Needless to say, your game will probably end soon as it becomes extremely difficult to discover where your invisible cursor lies.

The game does give you a small visual clue in the form of a tiny red explosion each time you successfully smash a plate, so once you’ve got the hang of it, you should be able to get a good string of smashes in before eventually dying. The game compels players to try one more time to beat their last score.

Invisibility - Harder Than It Looks

This very basic game doesn’t give you much help at all. Your cursor is completely invisible the entire game. Each level of this multi-level obstacle course starts off with a ‘Go’ button. Place your cursor on it and click. Then a maze will appear and you must move your cursor through the course to the ‘Stop’ button. If you hit a wall or an obstacle you have to start again.

This game becomes maddening after about the second level. With no visual hints as to how fast your cursor moves, you will quickly lose track of it. I found it best to just try to speed through and use your intuition. But that becomes difficult when you start getting moving obstacles which you have to maneuver around.

I challenge anyone to make it past level 5. I’ve tried several times and I’m still working on it. The game provides a fun challenge, but I imagine most gamers will give up out of frustration after a few tries. Although some people may really want to see if they can do it. At some point in the game you should get a password to save your progress, but I haven’t yet reached that point.

The Invisible Quest - Follow the Eyeballs

This invisible cursor game has the same concept as the previous game, but it plays a lot better due to the visual clues the game provides you with. However, it is still extremely difficult to play at times.

When you click the button to start, your cursor will be placed at the ‘Start’ button for the next maze. You must move the invisible cursor through the maze to the ‘Finish’ button. The first thing you will notice is that you don’t need to actually click the start button, you just start moving as soon as the maze appears. The other thing you will notice is all the helpful red eyeballs scattered around the perimeter of each maze. They eyeballs follow the movement of your cursor, so you have a general idea of where it sits on the screen.

The eyeballs only provide so much information and it still gets really hard to remember exactly how far along you have moved. This is one of the few games I actually recommend controlling using a laptop track-pad. When you use your mouse, it’s easy to reach the end of the mouse pad and you have to pick up your mouse and reset it to continue. A graphics pen seems too touchy. But having the ability to lift and replace your finger on a track pad works great.