25+ Great Free Flash Games [List]
So one of my favorite pastimes is finding awesome flash games online. Over several years I’ve been bookmarking my favorite flash games– and here they are, broken down by category. Most of the games I enjoy fall into a couple categories: Tower Defense, Strategy, Platformer, Action-Adventure, Creative, Puzzle/Thinking, Dark Humor (though, I’ll admit, my categorizing is probably a little hit or miss). If you enjoy these types of flash games, then you might want to bookmark this page right now, as I list A LOT of good games here.
Please share this page if you like this page and feel free to mention your favorite games in the comment section at the bottom.
Tower Defense Games
Tower Defense (Defence) Games or TD games are games where your goal is to stop an enemy from making it across the map or page while they travel on a (mostly) fixed path. Tower Defense Games are typically a cocktail of real time strategy with a dash of action and RPG elements.
Game Type: Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy, RPG Elements
Description: So you are a king or a general (or something), defending your kingdom from some evil from Mt. Doom (or something). Well, nevermind the story, the gameplay is excellent. Kingdom Rush is overall just an excellent TD game. This game revolves around 4 tower types, (Archers, Mages, Artillery and Footmen), and upgrading those towers becomes essential– plus, when you upgrade it increases the strength of the tower AND changes the look/graphics which is always fun. The most notable thing that differentiates Kingdom Rush from other games is the attention to detail and the overall graphics/gameplay polish. Also, I really enjoyed how the Footmen towers actually send out men to fight/stall the enemy. It certainly feels more like an involved battle with the use of hand to hand fighters in the game. Kingdom Rush also has perhaps the best graphics/audio of any flash game I’ve ever played. The graphics are clean and vibrant and the audio is interesting, and sounds professionally mastered. There are also plenty of little stage-specific interactive elements in the game which did not go unnoticed (at least, not by me). The one downside is that the game isn’t very long. With about a dozen stages, an experienced player should be able to best this game in about 2 hours. Like many modern flash strategy games, the game makers do have “premium content” which I imagine would include more stages, but you have to pay.
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The Process: Making a CMYK Car
Here’s some rough video of how the CMYK Car looked before/after each step in the process transitioning it from the Sharpie Art Car to the new CMYK Car. Sorry for the lack of quality– the video was kind of an afterthought in the grand theme of things as far as this project was concerned. In retrospect, it would have been worth the extra effort to record the repainting live. Lesson learned, and in the future, I will record the whole process as it happens.
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Video Game Store Art & Pastime Legends Review
There seems to be an interesting relationship between local artists/designers and local video game shops in upstate NY (specifically, Albany NY and Binghamton NY). local video game shops seem to put a real premium on art and on hiring artists and designers to make their shops look unique and to add unique flare to their shops… and why not? In an industry with iconic figures like Mario, Master Chief and Donkey Kong– there is no shortage of amazing artwork that could be crafted for these shops. I know this personally because I had been doing work for Pastime Legends, a video game shop in Albany NY, as well as indirectly for Sound Go Round in Binghamton NY. This week I’d like to highlight two local artists for game shops.
Social Networking Buttons That Rock [Links]
Just wanted to jump on here and mention that my colleague Dan Bochichio has posted some excellent social networking icons to use on your site on his blog. Check out his entry here.
I’m actually thinking about using the “artistic” ones he posted for my site… nice find Dan!
By the way, Dan specializes in SEO in the greater Albany Area, definitely check him out if you’re looking to really give your site/business a boost. Dan’s Site.
Find Your Own Social Network Icons
One of the sites I really like for finding social networking (or any icons really) is http://www.iconfinder.com/. Great way of finding unique and free icons for your site– and even has the ability to download the icons as PNG files with transparent backgrounds (this makes me OH so happy).
Down the road maybe I’ll post some of my own favorite icon sets as well.
Elegant Theme Font Switch – Cufonfont Problem
So I use elegant theme theme’s for some of my websites. They make a solid, easy to use product.
However, one problem I noticed is that some (or all?) of their themes (like Simplepress and Lightbright) seem to use this Cufon font/text stuff. Cufon font is a text replacement script that switches out whatever CSS/HTML font family you might be using with another font on the fly during page load. Sounds great, right? Ability to load custom unique fonts??– Sweet! Not so fast. Cufon fonts have one very noticeable design flaw and is at this time a dated technique that should no longer be used. The main problem with cufon is that you can actively SEE the font switch occur during load. As in, you load the page and all the font is in Arial (for example), and then after a moment, the font switches to the Cufon replacement font. Fix after the break.
Writing for Old School Apps!
Just wanted to jump on here to say I’ve been invited to contribute content for Old School Apps (a retro video game/emulator/abandonware game site).
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The “Ah-Ha!” moment with a Z-index issue
Just thought I would briefly talk about the CSS function “z-index” (For those unaware, its basically layer level or order in which objects sit on top of each other on the screen).
Here’s a useful visual example of Z-index:
Anyway, I was having a really hard time getting an image (a logo, specifically) to sit behind a text description, but on top of a background image.
1. DESCRIPTION
2. LOGO
3. BACKGROUND IMAGE
From zero to website in 3 days…
On Saturday my dad asked me to build him a website ahead of flyering for his business. He told me he was flyering early next week and that he needed the website up by Tuesday (aka, about 3-4 days)
So after putting in about 8 hours a day for the last 3 days, we have a basic website with paypal ordering. Its nothing special right now and could probably use some images and some improvements/debugging. However, given the quick turn around, Im really pretty happy with it. You can take a look here: Tuckers Laundry Service.
Quick plug for my Dad: Tucker’s Laundry Service provides pickup/drop off laundry service for students of RPI (in Troy, NY) and Union College (Schenectady, NY).
