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Orbitrunner - Flash game
by Jason Clarke Oct 15th 2008 at 2:00PM
Time wasters are a funny thing; sometimes they seem hard at first, but quickly become very easy. I'm pretty sure that Orbitrunner is not one of those time wasters. In Orbitrunner, you control the placement of the sun, around which planets and sometimes moons orbit. Your job is to keep all of the other celestial bodies on the same screen for a predetermined number of seconds. They cannot leave the game window, and they cannot collide with the sun, or with each other. The only tool you have at your disposal is the gravity of your sun, and your ability to move the sun arbitrarily.
While it will only take a few moments to grasp the concept of this physics-based game, it will take much longer to master it. But luckily for us, the explosion animation that occurs when planets collide is spectacular. I know, I've seen it quite a few times.
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, ...
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Tony said 11:29PM on 12-18-2008
That was a great game. Thanks for sharing.
Check out this game also... something a bit different for a flash game.
http://www.lunadrift.com/play/fishing-girl.html
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