Filler - Today's Time Waster

by Emily Price Jan 28th 2008

In Filler your goal is to fill 2/3 of the game board with "filler balls." Balls can be created by clicking anywhere on the board and their size is determined by how long you hold down the button on your mouse. The longer the you hold down the button, the bigger the filler ball.

The game has other balls bouncing around the screen which for the purpose of this explanation we'll call "bouncing balls." If one of those balls hits your filler ball while you're still creating it, then your ball pops and you lose a life. As you progress in the game there are more bouncing balls which make it more and more difficult to grow your filler balls without them being popped. Each level gives you a certain amount of lives, a certain amount of balls you can create, and a time limit.

Some tips we picked up when playing:

You can move your filler ball around while you're growing it to avoid being popped.
The filler balls react to each other, and to being hit by bouncing balls...so where they fall isn't necessarily where they'll stay.
You can grow balls specifically to move others and create "safe areas" for you to grow bigger ones.
If you completely squish a bouncing ball with filler balls it's not gone forever...they reappear in the top right corner.

Tags: filler, flash game, FlashGame, time waster, TimeWaster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Devin said 11:05AM on 1-31-2008

I quit after level 40, it gets a little repetitive at that point as it just takes the same basic strategy to finish every time.

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