Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters
Flow - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Mar 17th 2006
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?
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 ...
