theprodukkt.com/

.kkreiger is a free FPS (first person shooter) game and while it is a few years old now, what’s most amazing about this game is that it is only 96KB in size! The tiny size of the game is due to the use of procedurally generated content which basically means that things like in-game textures and models aren’t stored like a regular game but are made “on the fly” while you play the game, cool stuff indeed!

The game itself is still in beta form (although it has been for a long time now) and is a fairly basic FPS. You get a few different guns along the way and there are a bunch of enemies to take down as well, some easy while others need the heavy firepower to finish off. While .kkreiger doesn’t last too long, you’ll be able to download and install it by the time you finish reading this and anyone who has an interest in this sort of technology will appreciate what .kkreiger has achieved.

Home Run - Get Home Drunk
www.wagenschenke.ch

Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! Have a go of this game that celebrates the tradition of walking home drunk.

Don’t forget to wear something green (and drink lots as well)

Here is a couple of cool flash games to have a go at (plus some scores to beat!)

Flight Sim X

Play paper aeroplanes around the office without the paper! Try to get the plane out the window for a huge score. My best is 101m.

Finger Fenzy

Think you can type fast? Easy as ABC? Can you find the missing R in frenzy? Well, in this game you must type the alphabet, A to Z, as quickly as you can. I got 4.172, can you crack 4 seconds?

www.nationstates.net

NationStates is an online game that lets you run your own nation. You deal with the different issues your nation faces and your choices result in the civil rights, economy and political freedoms increasing or decreasing accordingly as your population grows. You name your nation, as well as it’s currency and national animal (which can also become the nation’s favorite snack), you even get to create your own flag.

You’ll deal with problems ranging from crime and health to education and the environment, with new issues arriving everyday for you to govern over. There are also the NationStates forums where you can chat with other Nations about issues and get involved in International Incidents (you can even declare war) which role playing fans should enjoy. Then there is also the NationStates General forum where you can find plenty of political, religious and all sorts of other ‘discussions’. Lots of fun!

http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

This one is for all the Guitar Hero fans out there (which is a lot, considering the franchise has made over $1 billion in North America alone). Frets on Fire is a free, open-source game for the PC inspired by Guitar Hero, the gameplay involves emulating playing a guitar by hitting the right notes as you strum along, getting the right rhythm and timing is key. To play Frets on Fire, you can use your keyboard instead of a Guitar Hero controller by flipping it around and using the F1-F4 keys to hit the notes. However, you can use the official Guitar Hero controllers too! Some will plug straight in via USB while others (like the Wii version) might require a bit of tweaking but will work wirelessly and give you the feeling of playing the regular Guitar Hero with all the benefits of Frets on Fire!

What are the benefits exactly? Well apart from being totally free, there is a dedicated community supporting Frets on Fire, creating mods, skins and (best of all) tons of custom songs to play! Not only can you find the entire Guitar Hero back catalog of songs but plenty of other tracks by different artists. You can even make your own songs to play with the built-in song editor. A great place to start finding custom songs is the Frets on Fire wiki and the Frets on Fire fan forum where you can find hundreds of songs, including different difficult levels to suit new players all the way up to rock legends.

www.freerice.com

Freerice.com is a website created by the same person who started The Hunger Site. It is a vocabulary game with a twist. For every word you guess correctly, the site donates 20 grains of rice (through the UN) to those suffering from poverty and hunger world wide. There is no limit to how much you can play or how much rice you can donate and so far over 14,000,000,000 (14 billion) grains of rice have been tallied up by players. The site began in early October 2007, so it has managed to achieve a lot in a short amount of time.

As you play the game, words are ranked by difficulty and your skill level is calculated based on your performance. Getting a higher level is the addicting part and as the site FAQ tells us “There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 48″, so good luck.

Flash Element TD
Onslaught - tower defense game

There are a lot of Tower Defense games on the Internet these days, most of them use Flash and some are a lot better than others. They are based around a map from Warcraft III and basically involve you using different kinds of defense towers to stop an ever advancing string of enemies. They can get pretty addictive and are a fun way to waste some time, here are a couple worth trying out.

Flash Element TD is a pretty good tower defense game, especially to start out with. It’s fairly straight forward, as you start with 3 basic tower types (which you can upgrade individually) and the new tower types come along at a steady pace, plus the layout gives each tower a couple of chances at hitting the enemies on their way around.

Onslaught is another tower defense game, #1 on some people’s list. Although it may look simple, this is the next step up from games like Flash Element TD. There is a lot more course layouts to choose from and the upgrade system gives you a lot more choice. Not only is there more types of advanced towers to use but placing certain types and amounts of towers next to each other results in big damage bonuses, as you can see on the Combo list. Games of Onslaught can go on for ages, so see how far you can get and compare your score to the High Score list.

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html
This is a cool flash game where you use your mouse to move up 16 levels by clicking up & down stairs. It may sound simple but getting to the 16th level can be a real challenge but is a lot of fun and the gameplay is a bit hard to explain, so you’ll just have to play it to see what I mean. Download.com mentioned this as one of the best flash games to come out so far in 2008, ofcourse that’s only been a week but hopefully that just means there is plenty more good games still to come. Stay tuned.

Note: High score so far, 184.

Orisinal.com
This site has some great flash games. They aren’t just your run-of-the-mill games either, they live up to their (similar) name as some of them are very original. The site has even won a couple of awards, such as the Webby for games in 2003. A couple of favourites are
Winterbells &
Bugs

There is plenty to try out though. Enjoy.