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Time Thursday Apr 6 2006 12:39am

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Author by Brian Tags under , Comments with 2 comments

About Brian:
I'm a recent graduate living in San Francisco. Supposedly, I'm also the "visionary". In reality, I'm just their taskmaster. I'm currently employed as an Associate Product Manager at Google.

Look, I know you’re reading this while procrastinating or avoiding other work. So I’ll make it easy for you. Because of our “relations” with the guys over at RRRRThats5Rs.com, we have a special place for flash games in our hearts. Especially different flash games.

Flow
First off, Jenova Chen’s Flow. It’s by the same guy who made that cloud game, and for some reason I can’t stop playing it. It doesn’t make much sense, since I can’t imagine why I would continue to play it, but it’s almost soothing to play. The graphics and sound are amazingly perfect. Try it out, you won’t be disappointed. Unless you think all flash games are a waste of your time. *cough* Brendan *cough* Also, if how to play escapes you at first, look here.
flow7je.png

Funbox!
Okay, so I’m biased. Funbox was actually created by our very own Sean McBride (and another Olin student) for a digital media class he’s taking over at Wellesley. It’s actually a series of 6 minigames that attempt to use squares (and subsequent derivatives) in different ways, and eliminating the need for text or complex graphics. (It’s a highbrowed art class, what can I say?) Plus, the site “design” follows in the footsteps of giants. Can’t do much better than that.

Cube
We watched a suitemate struggle for a long time with Cube. Set power and angle, and fire off squares onto other squares. Hmm… more squares. Maybe I’m on a minimalistic kick these days…
cube.jpg

That’s it! Cast off the shackles of responsibility and pick up the uh, mouse of… procrastination. Enjoy.

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    Time Thu 6 Apr 2006 - 2:35pm Author by Alex McKee

    Love that first game, thanks for the link :D

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    Time Mon 16 Jul 2007 - 10:03am Author by Jerry

    I’ve seen the cube. It’s kinda lame…
    I know that microsoft suppose to launch a new flash technology
    website (not flash but like it).

    Jerry

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