Upside Down, Boy You Turn Me Round and Round

February 12, 2008 No Comments
Spin The Black Circle
9
  • Type: Obstacle Course
  • Difficulty: Progressive
  • Replay Value: So-So
  • Controls: Arrow Keys
Object: Rotate the course to get the ball to reach its goal.

Review: This game of skill presents you with 24 progressively more difficult obstacle courses to work your way through. You must move your ball through each course by turning the entire course clockwise or counter-clockwise. Gravity pulls the ball downward on the screen and propels your ball onward. Watch out for menacing spikes, flames and other obstacles which line the walls of most courses.

The game does a great job of giving you pointers on how to advance past certain types of obstacles and the first 10 courses will move along pretty nicely, but then things get increasingly more difficult and this game may have you pulling your hair out. It even warns that it won’t be responsible for manaical homicidal tendancies resulting from frustration. I imagine that the game won’t have you actually killing people, but it does present quite a challenge. Luckily it will save your progress automatically, so you can come back when you have cooled down a bit.

The mechanics of the game feels smooth and responsive and the challenges seem surmountable eventually, but I dare say most players won’t be able to reach the end in one sitting. This game has similar physics to games such as Wone and Everybody Panic both reviewed previously on this blog.

I just love these physics-based obstacle course games and I hope to see more versions on the theme in the future. For now, this game will give you plenty of game-playing pleasure and will turn your world upside down.




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Give this game a spin - Game Review

September 29, 2007 7296 Comments
Spinner
6
  • Type: Time Killer, Skill
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Replay Value: If you’re bored
  • Controls: Mouse
Object: Get all the cogs spinning.
Review: This simple game requires nothing more than patience. You must get each of the 64 cog wheels on this grid spinning at the same time. In order to get a cog spinning you just quickly run your cursor over it. You must run it over smoothly and in a certain amount of time, otherwise it won’t stay spinning. Once a cog is spinning, it can easily stop if you touch it again, so you have to be careful to target only the non-spinning ones.

Ultimately it becomes a game of determination and doing the same thing over and over. A very simple idea, elegantly executed, but you won’t find much of a challenge here in the long run.



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Jelly Blocks, I-Face and Spin - Funhouse Picks for Wednesday

September 5, 2007 No Comments
Daily Funhouse Picks


Funhouse Picks of the Day include a unique slider puzzler called Jelly Blocks; a face-transforming site called I-Face and a time-twisting short film called Spin. Have fun!

Today’s Picks


Jelly Blocks

Game of the Day


I-Face

Fun Site of the Day


Spin

Video of the Day


Game of the Day

Jelly Blocks - Get your Jelly in One Glob

Jelly BlocksIn this fun puzzler, you have some jelly blocks of a certain color spread across the play field. When you press a direction, all the blocks on the screen will slide one step in that direction. You use the permanent obstacles and walls to maneuver the jelly blocks so that they touch each other, thereby creating a large cluster of the same color. At first you start with just a few blocks of one color, but as the levels progress, you will have to deal with more than one color and several obstructions which can help or hinder your progress.

At first I felt the game would be too difficult. It takes a few moments of playing to get a feel for the way the pieces move and interact with each other, but once you have to concept down you should have no trouble getting through the first 20 levels or so. Then things get a little harder as your pathways get more obstructed and pieces start combining before you want them to forcing you to have to restart the level.

Luckily, the game saves your progress automatically and also allows you to go back and replay any level you have previously completed. I highly recommend this unique game for people who like progressive puzzlers.

  • Jelly Blocks
  • Progressive Puzzler
  • Pretty Easy to learn
  • Medium to master
  • Arrow Key controls
  • Smarts and Planning involved
  • Play each level once replay value
  • Original Concept
  • Moderately simple graphics
  • Clicky Sound Effects Audio
  • Sticky Fun
  • Score 9


Fun Site of the Day

I-Face - Morph a Face

I-FaceThis nifty little web application features several faces of people. When you run your cursor over the various facial features, they change. Click on the features and more changes happen. Eyes wink, tongues stick out, noses twitch. It’s pretty fun and interesting to watch for a while, but the app doesn’t provide much practical application at this point in time. But the concept seems interesting. The original application seems to have a few glitches, especially using Firefox or older browsers. If you have any trouble, try this extra version by the same designer: Dominique’s Face, which seems to run a little better than the other faces.

If you enjoy this site, check out my other posts:

Goofy Face Mixing Site - Mono Face
5 Hilarious Face Transforming Sites


Video of the Day

Spin - Time Distortion

This award-winning video is really fun. It features a D.J. with a portable record scratching station, with which he can control time. He witnesses a man get hit by a car and decides to alter reality a little so the event doesn’t happen, but he ends up causing more trouble than he can handle.

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