Some Online Games

Since I have been attracted to playing some games in the real world such as basketball, snowboarding, kayaking or surfing, I’m not a big fan of video games even I grow up with friends who play Nintendo or PlayStation. For the projects and a presentation in this class, I surfed the web to look for interesting online games that are created by Flash. I found simple games like a jigsaw puzzle which might be a sample of my project, but I picked more advanced games here. So I honestly have no idea how did they script these games for now… ;op

http://nonoba.com/chris/untangle/

To play this game, move dots by a mouse (click and drag) and make sure the lines do not overlap each other. I assume it works by math algorithms. It is cool that how we can control the dots and the lines at will.

http://www.gameshot.org/?id=2399

To play this game, use your mouse to morph the ground in order to get the ball to the exit. If you click a tile under the ball, it is raised and the ball start rolling. The game itself is simple but I like the way how the ball moves naturally (momentum) on the slopes. Also You can create own game.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/dirkvalentine/

This game reminded me “Nintendo Super Mario” that I played a lot when I was small. It used to require a game machine and a cassette to play the game, but now we can play about the same quality game on the Internet without any loading problem.

http://flashkof.fr/hokuto/game.html

I just liked this animation “Hokuto no Ken” when I was small. This online game looks like a real video game; characters hit each other with very quick motions and images are clear. I have not got how to control Kenshiro well; that is the biggest reason I didn’t get into playing video games. User-friendliness would be considered as one of the key elements when we create games.

I had not had no ability to solve mathematical problems throughout whole my student life. Now I wish I have some talent of Math that I can apply for Flash scripting. The other day, my friend told me our brains accept language training while we are small like 4,5 years old, and Math training after we grown up like 20’s or 30’s. I thought I’ve been learning in opposite pattern. So I’m hoping my ability of Math will pick up for Flash scripting and be able to create cool games someday.