Monday, September 29, 2008

Casual Game: Madness Regent

Madness Regent is a game based on the famous Madness series on Newgrounds, this is a game design by Tom Fulp founder of newgrounds in celebration of madness series.

Well, in this game you control a character call Hanks and you go around shooting in a 2D side scroller world. Pretty straight-forward and short game. The graphics are really something that every flash game should aim at.

I find that a fun 2D side scroller depends a lot on the level design, on how the player interact with each level. Hopefully, each level give the player a different experience instead of just avoiding obstacles and killing enemies.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/461016

Casual Game: Death Dice Overdose

This is a very simple addictive game. You control a simple character ans suppose to dodge incoming dices falling from the sky. At the same time, there is a shock meter, the shock meter will gradually increase in time and you are suppose to keep it low. So you are suppose to collect pills but eating too much pills will make you "high" and things will start to become very colourful.

One more thing that make this game interesting, is the random event dice that will drop, sometimes it will spawn something dangerous or more pills.

Sometimes, a game doesnt need to have a really complicated system to make it fun. However, with complicated and well woven system, a game can become really deep and engaging, well, pros and cons.

Anyway here is the link

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/461279

Monday, September 8, 2008

Casual Game: Brawl Royale

Interesting game, basically this is like your wild west where those cowboy see who can draw their gun the fastest and kill the other guy except that this game uses swords and other funny weapons. Decent graphics and fantastic special effects.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458245

Casual Game: Beetle Run

Pretty cute game, its a puzzle game, tho its not an original concept the story is and the level design is good, the difficulty build up is just nice. You are a dung beetle trying to impress your girlfriend and you are to collect dung.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/459013