Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
LightSprites - Today's Time Waster
by Romeo Wahed Jan 17th 2008 at 10:00AM
The Time Waster you are about to meet is good for two reasons: one, it has a happy melody that repeats in the background as cheerful characters dance for you, and two, it serves as an interesting challenge that will test your aim and sense for distance.In LightSprites, although you can't technically "lose" the game, you will have a significantly lower score for missing targets or shooting the wrong ones. Here is what happens: you control little "orbs" in the clouds and shoot them at the scenery that's scrolling along below. The scenery has colored targets - match the orb with its target to get points. If you hit all the targets on say, a hill, for example, you will get a bonus. And this keeps going until all the targets are gone. Then repeat and see if you can beat your score.
If the easy mode starts getting boring, try higher difficulties and the challenge mode for more targets and harder color combinations. Once you've played this game long enough you'll realize one good side effect: the cheery music and graphics will put you in a great mood to go back and do some work.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
