Remember Garfield? I used to love him, and this take-off of the asteroid game is hilarious. In Lasagna from Heaven, you use the mouse to move Garfield back and forth across the screen. Opens his mouth as food rains down from above. Miss the food, and you’ll make him very unhappy! The drops get faster and non-food items get added to slow you down. Fast, fun action!
I’ve decided to highlight some of my favorite free games on my blog (mostly so that they can be searched easier. Here’s the first one: Brainbots. Roll the marble around an actual human body, including the brain. Cool fun!
I’ve collected 31 of my favorite scary, creepy and fun games for a month of Halloween goodness. The games are divided into kid-friendly and mature, and they include zombies, vampires, ghosts, and creepy houses.
Most of them are hosted on my site, or they are free to play on other sites. A few are free to play for an hour, but then you have to buy to get to higher levels. There are also a couple of videos and some just plain weird games.
My Casual Games Halloween Collection.
Enjoy!
Plasma Pong updates the classic game and makes it both cool to play and groovy to watch. Best of all, it’s free to download. At the core, Plasma Pong is the same old game of pong. You use your mouse to control the paddle, and try to get the ball past your opponent. Simple, right?
Well, Steve Taylor has added a very cool feature that adds eye candy to the game: fluid dynamics. In the game, using the right, left and middle buttons on your mouse, you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area. All these abilities have fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball, making Plasma Pong a fast-paced and exciting game. Adding to the atmosphere is a soundtrack that ratchets up the tenson.
If you get tired of manipulating the paddle, there’s also a cool sandbox area. Here, you can play around with fluid effects and create some great masterpieces. However, you can’t save the pictures you make, unless you take a screenshot of them.
Overall, this is an update that takes an old game and makes it something else entirely, and it makes for a fun gaming experience.
Plastic Martians is a twist on the familiar breakout game. Only this time, the gamespace is a circle and you’re literally trying to keep the ball from going down the drain. You control the paddle (which moves around a hole in the middle of the game circle) using your mouse. Balls randomly appear, and you must keep them bouncing and hitting the edge of the circle. Fruits, bombs, and other items give you extra points, lives, powerups, etc. You start off with 6 balls, and there are multiple levels. Very addictive.
Tringo is a game that first appeared in the online world of Second Life. It’s a combination of bingo and tetris, and was “invented” by a player online. It has become a regular competition game on SL. Well, it will soon be coming to real-life, and may be the next big Tetris, Bejeweled, etc. It’s certainly very addictive.
The rules are pretty simple. There are a total of 35 pieces, and each game is 35 turns. You try to fit each piece into a board. The screen on top shows the pieces and how many are left. The screen on the right, shows the current piece to fit, with a square with a dot in it. Click on the main board where the dot would be when the piece is placed. Every time you make a block of 4 or more squares, you score, and the blocks are cleared. However, if you skip or miss a piece, you lose points.
Since there’s a time limit to place the pieces (10 seconds), 35 rounds goes pretty quickly. I’ve been spending lots of time trying to beat my score. Cool game with an interesting story behind it.
Fly Guy is a simple game that is very relaxing.
You start off at a bus stop, just another dreary day. But using your arrow keys, you discover that you can fly! On route, you meet a stork, a well-dressed lady, a jammin’ alien, and many other creatures. The music is very soothing, and discovering how you interact with the objects you run into is fun.
But watch out! Interact with something boring, or work-related (a copier, a phone, machinery) and you’ll be right back where you started – waiting for that bus. The object is to float away to a magical ploace. Getting there, as they say, is half the fun, though.
