Thursday, June 21, 2007

Get Smiley With 12 Swap

This is a very cute game and I do like the smiley faces. Players are presented with a grid of different colored smiley faces. What you have to do is move them around (one at a time) so that there are three in a row of the same color. To do that you just click on it and thereafter click on another one (that you want the original one to swap places with) and that one has to be to the left, right, below or above it and then those 2 faces will change colors.

I initially misunderstood slightly as I thought that I could move a smiley face as a first move to get a row of 3, but the game will only allow you to move a smiley face if it anticipates that by doing so you will create that row of 3 in that one move. It is not such a difficult game, but what can be quite challenging is that sometimes the colors look very similar (such as the red and orange; the green and blue) and the board is quite small (although there is a way to make it larger on a lot of computers) but these two factors probably render it tougher. Oh and the fact that as soon as you start moving the smiley faces, well, they just start smiling so that can add to the confusion.

You have two play mode options: either to play until your time runs out, or to play until you run out of moves and I always choose the latter option. Obviously the higher up you get in terms of levels, the harder (and more exciting) it gets.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Go For Blob Wars, Alone or With Buddies

Blob Wars is a great game to play, both whether you are alone and bored, or alone with a friend and bored. You have the option also of playing one game; best of three or best of five. I actually prefer to play Blob Wars alone primarily as I think all my friends are just way too competitive (but there again I guess they would say the same about me). Anyway Blob Wars is a lot of fun and you have to try and make everyone in to YOUR blobs (so they are on your side). You do this by putting a blob into an empty space or jumping into an open space up to one square away. You conduct both these moves with a mouse click. This highlights your blob and you must click on a highlighted spot to complete the move. Once you have made the move the blob becomes yours. The player with the most blobs at the end of the game, wins.

The music is pretty nail biting in Blob Wars. It sounds like you are setting up for battle. It goes quite quickly too and you have to be pretty much on your toes so that you don't get sapped to the other side (like I did A LOT in my first few games). As well as trying to get the opponents on your side, you have to try and not get taken to their side to Blob Wars is very much a game of defense and offense. Blob Wars takes a bit of practice to master the main ideas, but once you have done that, you can do pretty well really.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Flash games for fun

Are you looking to play flash games for fun? There are some good websites that you need to know about…

Try checking out www.ugotgames.com and www.addictinggames.com. These sites offer, between them, a couple of hundred flash games that you can play, for free. The variety of games available is tremendous: there are shooting games, slasher games, sport-related games, stickman games, you name it…. And these two sites are only the tip of the iceberg. Just google “flash games for fun,” and you’ll find 34,000+ hits… many of these sites will offer free games for you to play.

So get going; get gaming.