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For the pass few blogs, my reviews are more towards flash based 2d simple games. On this fifh blog I would like to recommend this impressive Flash 3D graphics animation game-- Get The Glass.
I found it quite sometime ago through surfing and I love it so much especially the graphics. Thus i put this to my last assignment and hope everything ends with a beautiful ending.
Get The Glass, the latest Got Milk? online campaign created by North Kingdom in 2007 by a Swedish agency. They come out with this stylish online game that is load of fun and addicting. The game based on one of the most classic board games, starring the Adahi family. A game begins by setting off Adahi family through a van by throwing a Dice. The mission of the game is to help the milk-deprived Adachi family setting to Fort Fridge and get the glass.
Throwing off a dice can be so pretty interesting to look at, as the dice throw, roll and stop. The van move to the number of spaces and lands to either
Fortune card (move forward)
Misfortune card (move backward)
or Master Mind card (puzzle to move)
Besides asethically intrigued graphics, the game has many challenges and interactivity in order to Get The Glass
Challenges:
1. word search - rivia questions, fill in the missing letters of the word,
2. mini-game challenges that range from arcade to puzzle
Interactivity
1. The Wheel of fortune is very interesting. If you are lucky, you get make the Adachis escape
2. Arrrange the flowers on the characters head exactly as shown on the portrait. There is time limit and 3 turns 
3. The hot pursuit was easy, try holding down the mouse button to move but not easy to get to the finishing line.
Helpful Hints:
The final lock combination is found on the top right. You’ve been collecting the numbers in each of the mini-games.
Code to fort bridge is: 6, 97, 31, 52, 8
Phrase at end of game is, “Can I please get the glass.”
Throughout the game you are followed by the police car along with the encounter test on words, tricky puzzle and interactivity on all about milk campaign and who capture you if you fail the test and take you off to Milkatraz prison.
The game is not an easy game, it is not easy to Get the Glass. I have been in and out the prisons for many times but I am still not manage to get the glass. and it take a while to load the front end with my broadband. I must say the animations are just brilliant and navigation is interesting. It is still worth to the time to load and play . Brilliant aesthetics and the effectiveness of the marketing campaign, make it a promising game design company that i will look forward to their incoming projects:
These are some of the links on the North Kingdom projects:
the making of Get The Glass
The north-Kingdom Project- Get the Glass, got milk?
Youtube- the making of "Get the Glass"
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I am not a hard core gamer, i only play games occasionally so it is quite difficult for me to blog on some complicated games. I decided to look up for highest ranked popular game on the site. Then i come across this simple and soothing flash game, it completely threw me off- Music Catch 2.
A very simple game, you control a ball with your cursor. The more shapes you collect, the more points you get.Yellow shapes make you grow in size and multiply your points. Red shapes cause you to lose some of multiplier. Purple shape vacuum up all the good shape. A simple game with simple look. All shape comes in bright neon colour onto a dark background. Visually it is colourful yet pleasing to look at. Especially when you collected the purple shape, all the shape zoom into one direction and slowly faded away. Asthetically it is very beautiful to look at. As you go further you will able to unlock new shapes, patterns and even the ability to play your own music.
The game purposely make it simple, easy to control and anybody can just pick up and play. However the game play is still engaging. It comes with rewards for grabbing yellow shapes, and power up by collecting purple shapes. The risk is to avoid red obstacles as it will reduce the multiplier. The score is also the incentive to keep the player to continue playing the game.
Last but not least, the sound track that has added a final touch to the game. Player will just flowed with the beautiful piano music, distress by the falling shape. Written by Isaac Shepard, from his solo-piano album called "Deep Joy" is a mastermind the bring out the intricate touch and soul to the game of Music Catch 2.
In short Music Catch 2 is flavoured by casual gamer. It is easy to play without difficult elements. A simple and relaxing game to play in between waiting time.. However if you are “hardcore” gamer, this is not the game for you as the difficult level is too easy to achieve and there is not much things that player can look forward to.
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Last few weeks, I stumbled across this game site at smileygamer.com and found a very interesting flash game - FlashElement TD. A Tower defense game designed by David Scott. A Flash based where inspiration is based on the “Element TD” map created for the RTS game Warcraft III. Launched in 2007 and since then it has growth popularity and can be found over many game sites.
Many thanks to the creator of this game - David Scoff.
Play online and see how much you can score!
http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/
Or play here!! Enjoy!
http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/
Or play here!! Enjoy!
I have been playing quite a while and become quite addicted to this game. Why this game so addictive? Well I can say that is the gameplay elements.The aim of the game is to kill all the creatures without letting any of them to get away. Thus player has to place all kinds of towers on the map and upgrading them whenever is possible. There are many challenges in every level and player has to be alert and strategicly place the towers. Lots of interactivity involved, such as to upgrade tower, to unlocked tower. By unlocking you will need 1wood (every 7 levels you get 1 wood for an upgrade). Players can also buy interest rate with 1 wood to gain more point.To increase the life by 1 with every 40 gold. To increase fire and power by selling off your gold. Player can also earn your interest in the bank and so on. The game is getting very fast and tough with creatures swaming out the maze, this is when game go up to 15 levels up.
Normally i will buy the interest rate with first few upgrade and buy fire towers and rockets, these two are the most power attacking defenses. Try not to waste money on water towers which only slow down on enemy with low fire, not very effective at all. When comes to fast flying creatures, I will buy Arrow towers, quite effective to hit fast flying creatures and can upgraded by increasing the power. I also often used Cannon towers, they are good in attacking stubborn creatures with slow fire but good demage. In order to prevent life from running out. Players have to keep as many gold in bank and buy life as needed. Once 20 lifes are finished, the game is over. Here is my score:
What i can say is good ideas are the heart of soul of any good game, strategic planning of games and interactively are something cannot be compromised. Even without a complicated 3d environment, graphics interface, a simple flash based game with presentable graphic interface , sound and only one top angle view can also engage players emotionally. That is the essense of gameplay - FlashElement TD- one of my favourite game
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What is it like to start to play games after so many years. Well, i can say it was fun. So i started with those simple game first-- “The Burger Island 1” from the internet an hour free trial version. A game that is easy to play and let you have a kick start. This is a very fast food themed game. It is a click and stacking game. It has three levels. The game has put very good details in comic graphics- pop art interface design. Look and feel is good. However it is considered a very small game that does not have full features in term of features and levels.
It is just a simple click and play game that is easy to play without much thought, kind of killing time when you are waiting for someone or in between lunch break that will keep you awake after a full meal. It gets really repetitive after a while and background music is same throughout get you real tired.
The more you play the game the more you can memorize the recipes.More for young adults and kids to learn to stack according to the colour on top bar. It starts off with meat, ketchup, burger in sequence and then to fries, drinks and shakes. The only surprise you get is you can buy new recipes after you managed to finished the next level. No strategy or thinking involved, the only challenges is as it gets faster and faster , it is getting hard to follow and keep your mouse clicking nonstop. This is more like a flash game for casual gamer not really fantastic, still enjoyable game that let you kill your time. I managed to become a burger graduate after an hour play.
http://www.gamehouse.com/download-games/burger-island
Burger Island full game features:
* 60 fast-paced levels
* 5 exotic burger stand locations
* Over 30 uniquely delicious recipes to purchase
* 3 different stations with up to 9 ingredients per order
* Over 40 different ingredients
Burger Island Game System Requirements:
System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP w/ 600MHz or
faster Processor & 128 + MB System RAM
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If you like to join the fight club, there is a game that you can vent your anger with. The exciting and finest Fighting Games that I love is Virtua Fighter.
Back in days, Virtua Fighter 2 was one of my favourite games I played at arcade. It was the best fighter I had ever played with impressive polygon 3d graphics accompanied with nice background sound,environment and character without compromise the speed and action.......
Personally I find the game is extremely easily to play with 3 buttons and a arcade control stick. It comes with dozens of different moves and combination, including throws, counters, pursuit attacks, parries, and reversals. It consists of a best-of-three-rounds game, where you win either by beating with kicks and puching and throwing your opponent out of the ring. It can player with one player or 2 player. However it will still take sometimes to master well the move of each individual character with buttons and stick in order to defeat the opponent.
Virtua Fighter 2 comes with 10 characters. Pei is one of the great female kungfu master that i always play. i like her fighting style and her move. Mastering her style is not a simple task too cos i have not finished the whole match till now.
Weeks ago, I got to play with the newer version Virtua Fighter 5 with PS3. The mode selection has not changed much as compare to virtual Figher 2. However it has improved a lot of the physical appearance in graphics, characters and landscape. From 10 fighters it has increased to 17 fighters.You can customize their characters with data profiles to characters, which lets you track your win or loss percentage and also it gives you gold players that can used to purchase four uniquely patterned costumes to be placed onto each fighter’s various body parts. It has come with more unique character moves and fighting styles however it still can improve in the interactivity to the gamers by giving more variations of costumes with the existing 4 types. Music is good on board but it has become repetitive throughout the scene. It would be awesome that in future there will be more sound effects at different stages.
Overall Virtua Fighter 5 is a challanging game to play. It has a big jump of improvement of Virtua Fighter 2 in term of graphics and fighting move. I would strongly recommend it as one of the exciting fighting games of all time.
