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Flow - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Mar 17th 2006 at 8:00AM
Flow is
a brilliant Flash game that's a sort of cross between Pac-Man and Nibbles, though that's hardly doing it justice.
There's no plot to speak of, but you begin the game as a sort of small luminescent organism and you must eat other
organisms to grow. You can go forward or back among the levels at will, but while the first levels are populated only
by benign, easily-digestible prey, the later levels are filled with more dangerous adversaries that you'll only be able
to defeat if you've out-evolved them. The game is unique in that there's no timer and no score display (your health is
represented visually in the composition of your organism), and though there's a final goal (I won't spoil it for you),
there's no real end to the game. Despite its simple premise and simple controls, Flow is a game that's immensely
satisfying to play and difficult to stop playing. Oh, and did I mention the graphics are gorgeous?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David said 9:09AM on 3-17-2006
Looks kind of like the beginning of Spore
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tpp said 10:50AM on 3-17-2006
I played with this a little earlier last week after seeing a link on some other site. It's really cool and feel like a cross between Spore and Electroplankton. Great game!
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Diddle said 12:20PM on 3-17-2006
What a gorgeous game! Took me a while to figure out how to (b)eat the other creatures, but it was funnn! I really enjoyed the visuals and sounds of this one.
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Bud Landry said 12:47PM on 3-17-2006
Here's a stupid question--
Can you play a flash game offline? Can you save it to play it offline?
I ask because I have only played them while online, and I tend to leave them alone forever with the next page I surf.
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Jordan Running said 1:00PM on 3-17-2006
Yes, Bud, most Flash games you can save to your hard drive and play offline. The easiest way to do this in Firefox is to go to Tools > Page Info, click on the Media tab, find the .swf file, and click Save As...
Once you have the .swf file saved, you should be able to open it in your browser and play it.
Some games, however, load data from the web during play, so not all can be played offline.
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Quixote said 1:49PM on 3-17-2006
To Bud and Jordan,
There are two links at the top of the website, right above the flash game for "Offline Version (PC & Mac) 6.4mb"
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Sabreman said 2:26AM on 3-20-2006
Elektroplancton DS clone ?
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Deozaan said 2:15AM on 3-23-2006
I played the game and ate everything I could find, but I never found a final goal. After I beat the tough organism on the "bottom" level and it broke into pieces for me to digest there was one that wouldn't move anywhere and I couldn't eat it.
I went up and down through the levels several times for at least an hour trying to make sure I didn't miss anything. But I never could eat that last piece.
I want to be spoiled. I'd like to know what the final goal is.
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