Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
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.
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 ...
