Filed under: Fun, Games, Freeware, Time-Wasters, Web
Deepleap word game - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Mar 31st 2009
Following people on Twitter that are at interesting conferences that I'm not at can often be frustrating, but sometimes it leads to a wonderful find. Recently Gina Trapani retweeted a somewhat cryptic tweet that made reference to javascript games, and offered deepleap.org as an example. Since the tweet in question also contained the phrase "getting mind blown", I couldn't resist heading over to deepleap.org to see what was there.
As it turns out, Deepleap turns out to be an incredibly fast-paced and addicting Scrabble-influenced word game. Knowing that it was created entirely using javascript makes it all the more amazing from a geeky perspective, but really, it's just a fun game to play.
The concept of Deepleap is simple; you are given letters on tiles at rapid regular intervals, and as your screen fills with them you must make words out of the letters you have available. Each word scores you points if it is a real word, but entering wrong words results in points being docked from your score.
The rapid-fire nature of the game is engrossing, but fortunately also makes playing in short bursts possible. This works perfectly if you're looking for a little coffee break pick-me-up that will get your brain juices flowing.
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 ...
