Fugdale’s Funhouse

Object: Avoid the baddies while collecting green dots and stars.

Review: This game follows in the tradition of similar collect and avoid games. You control Blobber, a cute smiley faced green bubble. Move him around the screen with your mouse and collect all the small green dots floating around the screen. You can also catch a somewhat elusive green star which appears briefly once per level. If you miss the star, you can still progress, but you will lose your bonus points.

What would any collecting game be without having to avoid something along the way? In Blobber, you must avoid a collective of mean baddies. Various numbers of them float about the screen. Some float randomly in ping pong fashion and others slowly follow you about the screen.

As you collect dots and stars, your Blobber will grow in size making it both easier to collect the other dots and at the same time, more difficult to avoid the enemies. After you have collected all (or sometimes most) of the green dots, some of the enemies will turn into friendly bubbles. When that happens you need to collect them as well. Sometimes enemies won’t change until you’ve collected other friendly bubbles and some enemies will never change to friendly bubbles.

This game proposes, on the main screen, that you won’t be able to play just one game of Blobber. Due to it’s cute graphics, nice sound effects and easy game play, I would be willing to agree with them. This game definitely has some charming aspects to it. Just make sure your connection is fast and you don’t have a lot of other internet related downloads going on in the background as it tends to slow the action down.

Object: Catch as many stars as you can in one minute.

Review: Ferry Halim has designed many beautiful and very creative flash games on his site Orisinal. This game is no exception. Here Ferry shows us a lovely calm night scene on the beach. You control a young girl walking along the beach. When you hold the mouse button down a meter appears above her head. When it reaches the top, you release the button and the girl will jump as high as the meter indicates. When she falls to the ground, her relection bounces up into the sky and catches stars. When she has become airborne you can move the girl around to catch even more stars. If you time your jump just right, you can catch bonus falling stars worth a bunch of extra points.

A timer counts down from 60 to 0 and you should try to catch as many stars as you can in that time. But the timer won’t make you feel pressured. Like so many of Halim’s games, the lovely artwork and soothing soundtrack will keep you peacful and happy during the short play period. This game provides little more than a minute of star-collecting fun. Younger kids and adults alike should enjoy playing this and many of Ferry Halim’s other games.

If you enjoy this game, check out our prior review of Ferry Halim’s game: The Crossing