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Games Featured:
- • NOBY NOBY BOY
- • Isaac Newton's Gravity
- • Colorbind
How's this for a theme: three games that make you scratch your head! Colorbind because you can't figure out how to do what's right in front of your face. Gravity because you can't figure out how to precisely set up a chain reaction to tap a little button. And NOBY NOBY BOY because you have no earthly idea what's going on (even though you love it).
Games Featured:
- • Lunnye Devitsy
- • Which
- • The Hunt
This week's selection of downloadable games seems to ask a lot of questions. Not because one of their titles practically is a question, but because of the way they're made. What rests beyond the next corridor? How can you get to the other side of that waterfall? And if I step out into that suspiciously dark and open wooded area, will I get attacked by something hideous?
Games Featured:
- • Hats
- • Rabbit Rustler
- • Colour My Life
- • Streets of Gotham Full Throttle
- • Let's Currrl
Another Friday, another Link Dump, and another tasty assemblage of the best bite sized games plucked from the bakery that is the internet. This week; movies, physics, rabbits, and fantastical hats!
Games Featured:
- • Trenches
- • Choice of the Dragon
- • Charadium
- • Bird Strike
Multiplayer games are a bit scant on the iTunes App Store. This week, we've got an excellent online-enabled title that serves as an example of how mobile devices can be used to bring people together for collective gaming experiences. Friendly game of Pictionary, anyone?
Games Featured:
- • BirdyWorld
- • Mr. Kitty's Quest
- • Bitworld
- • Dungeons of Fayte
The recently-completed TIGSource Assemblee Competition was all about artists and programmers working together as one big happy family-like unit. The two-part competition began with artists/musicians creating assets, then programmers came along, scooped up the goodies and used them to make games. The results, as you can see, are extraordinary, with over 70 games submitted in the end. Below are a few highlights of the competition.
Games Featured:
- • Skywire VIP
- • Beulah and the Hundred Birds
- • Finding Fairytales: Castle Party
- • Romance Maker
- • Invisible Runner
- • I Hate This Game
A Friday, like any other... or IS it?! ... well, okay, since it's yet another installment of Link Dump Friday it probably IS just like any other. Which is to say, chock full of new games hungry for your perusal! Platformers, puzzlers, brain-benders, and more. And they still have that great new game smell!
Games Featured:
- • Cabby
- • Plushed
- • Trundle
- • Castle Frenzy
One secret fact about iPhone games is that they can make you do weird things. Tilting the device to steer a car, for example, seems innocent enough, but when you're operating a flying taxi cab or flinging enemies up into the virtual sky, it's easy to get carried away. But you know what? Who cares if you look like a weirdo. You're having fun, and that guy making fun of you is not.
Games Featured:
- • A very brief tale
- • Strangers
- • War and Peace
Sometimes you don't want an epic story or 80 hours of gameplay out of your game. Sometimes you just want to mess around, experience something quirky, and call it a day. All of the games below are extremely short. They're "just 'cause" games, because the only reason you play them is just because you can!
Games Featured:
- • Gluey
- • Turtillion Island
- • Bananafoot
- • Them Coconuts
- • Choco Valentine 2
Need some sunshine in your day? How about bright colours, bizarre imagery, and a monkey in an iron barrel? That's right, this week's Link Dump Friday celebrates the weirdly wonderful games of the World Wide Web. Point-and-clicks, defense, physics, puzzles, all for you, dear reader. So hold tight to your no-nonsense socks if you value them, because this one is going to knock them right off with cuteness.
The entries for the 7th Casual Gameplay Design Competition are now online and ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time. Please help us spread the word!
Games Featured:
- • Broken Sword: Director's Cut
- • Cogs
- • Aargon
- • Train Conductor
Puzzles come in a variety of forms, from straightforward "here, solve this" to more convoluted riddles in story-driven games. The puzzles in this week's titles are wrapped in different cloths, but they all provide a great challenge no matter what your preference.
Games Featured:
- • TowerClimb
- • Sheep
- • Heartwild Solitaire Classic
Ahem. Here we go Loopty Loo! Here we go Loopty Li! Here we go Loopty Loo! Because it's Weekend Download that you can possibly read on a Saturday night!
Games Featured:
- • Zoo Escape 2
- • ShipWrecked
- • Fuli
- • Wyzau Circle Tower Defense
- • Cargo Bridge: Armor Games Edition
Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles! Featuring cows, genies, helmets, and more, this week's Link Dump Friday is for those of you who like figuring things out, particularly when those things involve physics, zoo animals, and miniature labourers.
Just a quick reminder that there is just 1 week left until the deadline for our 7th Casual Gameplay Design Competition. It is a very special competition that will feature one-room games of interactive fiction incorporating the theme of "ESCAPE". See the official competition announcement for all the details. Also, if you wish to be a judge, please request to be added to the judges list on the official competition announcement page.
Games Featured:
- • CatchMe! if you can
- • Bee Spelled
- • Tumbledrop
Tumbledrop! The most smilinglyest game ever made, with more grins per geometric shape than an LOLboxfactory, has made a surprise appearance on the iPhone. Quick! Must get star to platform!
Games Featured:
- • TimeStill
- • Flood the Chamber
- • This Is How Bees Work
- • Probability Zero
Simplicity is often overlooked in modern games. Whereas early programmers had little more to work with than a few lines of code and a green-on-black screen, modern game makers can have armies of programmers, artists, and computers on their side. It doesn't take 3D visuals and realistic physics to make a good game, though, as indie game creators prove time and time again. This week's games are small in some ways, but enormous in others, and all have that special something that makes you treasure the time you spend with it.
Games Featured:
- • Mecharon
- • Rotato
- • What's For Dinner?
- • Lab Rat: Quest For Cheese
- • vel.blast
Mechs, chefs, rats, and more on this week's Link Dump Friday! After all, what better way to start your weekend off than with time management and bullets. I don't want to get your hopes up, but there might be a pony inside this one!... I said, might.
After nearly 40,000 votes counted and compiled, we are pleased to present the results of the Best of 2009! This year it was all up to you, the JIG community, to hand out the awards to those games that earned the most votes. In a few categories the JIG editorial team has chosen a game to share the award to be sure some notable titles received the recognition and praise that we feel they deserve, but we didn't have to work very hard because we agreed with most of your selections!
Games Featured:
- • Imp or Oaf?
- • Sword & Poker
- • Blocks with Letters On 'A'
- • Mr. Space!!
We hereby declare this Mobile Monday "International Skip the Lite Version Edition"! We had such a great time with the games below, we're confident enough to suggest you just take the plunge and skip all that extra downloading and such. It's especially true for Sword & Poker, as if you try the lite version and fall in love with the game (which, you will), nabbing the full version will force you to start over again from the beginning. :-O And congratulations to our BLOCKOBAN giveaway winners!
Just a quick reminder for those who might have been waiting until the last minute to cast those important votes: We are heading into the final hours of voting. All voting will end Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:59PM (GMT-5:00), so don't delay. VOTE NOW!
Games Featured:
- • Wave Goodbye
- • Squid and Let Die
- • Wave Goodbye
Reflexes are a mixed bag, aren't they? On the one hand, they cause you to do things like uncontrollably kick people if they look at your knees (that's a reflex, honest), on the other hand, they jerk your hand away from painful objects and let you play insanely fast and chaotic games.
Games Featured:
- • Battalion: Vengeance
- • Mahjong Dark Dimensions
- • Jigsaw.X0.com
- • Bongo Boom Battlegrounds
- • Lapinka and the Hidden Shield
Puzzles and strategy abound on this week's Link Dump Friday, featuring modern twists on age old game ideas, long ears, and a whooole lotta tanks. Really, what else could you ask for to start your weekend off with? Except maybe a pony. A pony... with purple wings. And... magical breath that smells like cotton candy. ... well, now I'm all depressed. Try to enjoy this week's offerings anyway!
Just a quick reminder for those who may have missed our announcement late last week: Cast your votes now for the Best of Casual Gameplay 2009! You can vote for your favorite games once each day during the voting period. Voting period to end sometime this weekend, so don't delay! Vote now and vote every day!
Games Featured:
- • Doodle Jump
- • Aztec Quest
- • Mondrian
- • Jounce
It's time for free stuff! Accompanying this week's Mobile Monday feature, we've got a handful of unlock codes for last week's puzzle game (which is also a browser game, by the way), BLOCKOBAN. Want one? All you have to do is sign in with a Casual Gameplay account and leave a comment below. Winners will be chosen at random and announced on next week's Mobile Monday, so be sure and check back then to see if you've won!
Games Featured:
- • Apocalypse Adventure
- • Penguinagain
- • Scavenger
- • Cat Planet
It's Ludum Dare time again! Ludum Dare 16 has come and gone, leaving with us dozens upon dozens of unique, quickly-crafted games to enjoy. The latest competition's theme was "exploration", and here are a few of the top games as voted by the LD community!
Games Featured:
- • Gone to the Dogs
- • Wheel It
- • Find Tealy 2
- • Speed Escape
- • Soul Arms
Another Friday, another week, and still we don't have houses on the moon or flying cars! Some new decade this is turning out to be. Why not cheer yourself up with tiny dragons, racing hounds, or gears? This week's Link Dump Friday has it all... provided your definition of "all" is a limited selection of five games.
Another year for the record books, 2009 sure had its ups and downs. Throughout the year we aimed to bring you the very best online, mobile and downloadable casual games available on the Web, and now it's time for you to choose the best of the best, la crème de la crème. Yes, it's time for our sixth annual Jay is Games "Best of" feature. Vote for your favorite games of 2009! Vote now, and vote once per day during the voting period!
Games Featured:
- • Fishtropolis
- • Red Conquest
- • Blockoban
Big games, small packages. Well, iPhone apps don't really have packages, but you get my point. Without losing their pick-up-and-play appeal, this week's games stuff a lot of content into your hands, offering weeks upon weeks of casual entertainment.
Games Featured:
- • ArGeeBee
- • Opera Omnia
- • Audia
It's the first Weekend Download of 2010! We thought we would go easy on you while you break in your new calendar, so all of the games below have a light download footprint. You can handle a few megs worth of games, can't you? Sure you can!
To celebrate the passing of a year (and of a decade), Joe, Dora and John sat down around a cozy fireplace, sipped some sort of expensive kind of drinks we couldn't even pronounce, let alone afford (it was hot cider), and had a nice little chat about the year behind and the year ahead. How was 2009 for casual games? What does 2010 promise? We don't know. But we sure sound like we do!
Games Featured:
- • Alter
- • Shrink It
- • Blasting Agent
- • The Well
- • Icebreaker: The Gathering
Happy 2010, dear reader! We hope it's filled with even more awesomeness for you than the last. What better way to start your year off on the right foot than with this week's Link Dump Friday? It's a well-known fact that people who start their Fridays with a strict regime of games are guaranteed to grow only the most luxurious of beards in the new year, men and women alike!... hmmm, or maybe it was just "have a lot of fun"? I can't remember, they're so similar!
Oh ho ho, we are so back with more casual gameplay in podcast form! Just in time to wave goodbye to the holiday season, Joe from FlashGameLicense along with Jay, Dora and John from JIG managed to get Eli Piilonen, creator of The Company of Myself, to sit down and be subjected to questions of all kinds. We get serious with the games this episode, so you don't want to miss the shouting matches, dirty glares, roundhouse kicks, and thoughtful gifts of chocolates and cheeses exchanged between us.
Games Featured:
- • Spider: Hornet Smash
- • VectorTD
- • Stair Dismount
Hugely, hugely, hugely addictive games on this edition of Mobile Monday, apps we just couldn't keep our smudging little fingers off of for very long. Each should be familiar to anyone who follows the casual/indie gaming scene, but their transition to the mobile platform introduces new controls as well as our favorite hook: complete portability!
Games Featured:
- • Shards
- • Hydorah
- • Battle of Tiles
If games weren't challenging, we wouldn't bother with them, right? Games create a set of rules that cause certain actions to be difficult, then you, the player, must try to perform those actions. It's a narrow definition, to be sure, but challenge on any level is something that sits at the core of gaming. Each of the games below throws challenges at you in a different way, whether it's via enemies, puzzles, restrictive physics, or a combination of all three. Sometimes you have to form a strategy, but sometimes it's about fighting with the game itself to make it all work. Either way, it's fun.
Games Featured:
- • Santa Hair
- • Icebreaker: The Gathering
- • Civiballs X-Mas Levels
- • Save the Bunny: X-Mas Edition
- • Infectonator Christmas Edition
- • Mezzo Special Edition
- • Santa Rockstar 2
- • Chompy's Winter Rescue
- • Snow Day
- • Santa Fu!
It's a super-sized holiday edition of our famous Link Dump filled with seasonal games to help you get your celebrate on! With puzzles, action, adventure, and even some point-and-clicks, it's everything you need to make your Friday complete, minus all that pesky "sustenance" and "nutrients", of course.
Games Featured:
- • Tomena Sanner
- • Vortex
- • Undead Attack! Pinball
- • bitFLIP
This week's Mobile Monday fell off the wacky train! Fortunately it hit a pack of wacky grass which cushioned its fall, but the train kept going to Wacky Town all the same. Now Mobile Monday has to hitchhike. The bus from Wackyville should come by soon, Tomena Sanner is driving today.
Games Featured:
- • GunFu Deadlands
- • !
- • Sumotori Dreams
- • Magic Planet Snack
- • Dawn's Light: A Christmas Tale
Ever wonder what happens to the games we feature on Weekend Download? Think the respective developers just take a nap and start on something new? Oh ho HO! You would be wrong! Two of this week's games are updates of titles we featured in the past, proving once and for all (insert significant philosophical observation here).
Games Featured:
- • Steady the Yeti
- • Blosics
- • Arcuz
- • Platonic Archetypes of Dice
- • run.don't.stop
A fantastical hodge-podge of internet gaming delight awaits you this Link Dump Friday! Physics, puzzles, RPGs, and so much more! Do you have what it takes to conquer them all?!... well, okay, yeah, probably. But it's hardly as exciting if we say that, now, is it?
Games Featured:
- • Beat It!
- • Tipoli
- • Decades
- • Arcade Solitaire: TriTowers
Ever wonder what it would be like if we lived underwater? Like, if it were normal that everything was surrounded by water and we could breathe with gills and stuff. I'm thinking ice cream would be an entirely different concept on that wet world...
Historic Dire Grove, although closed for the season, is now open to the public for only $6.99 or a Big Fish Game Club credit. The game lives up to the quality expectations of the Mystery Case Files series, and fans of hidden object and adventure games won't likely be disappointed. Download the demo, read our review, or consult our Dire Grove Walkthrough.
Games Featured:
- • Lily
- • We Want YOU
- • Kaiser Kitty
I'm a sucker for cute, quirky games. Throw a few chunky pixels in my direction, slap on a coat of "retro, yet new" gameplay on the top, and you've got my attention. All three games this weekend have that quirky old-school charm, and all three were thoroughly played/nommed by yours truly!
After a miniature holiday-induced delay, Way Too Casual has returned with more splendid casual gaming splendidness! For our second episode, Joe, Jay and John have summoned a guest speaker: Chris from GamerSafe.com. Why? Because we have a very serious topic to discuss, something that makes gamers near and far shudder with fear: microtransactions. That heavy topic along with a full arsenal of game reviews can be yours with one simple click!
Games Featured:
- • Infectonator
- • The Ant Explorer
- • Fox and Roll
- • Zoo Escape
- • Pac Vs Alien
It's Friday, and you know what that means, don't you? Zombies, foxes, ants, and more! If you guessed correctly, you get to play this week's Link Dump Friday lineup! If you didn't guess correctly, well... you can still play, but you'll sense our parental disapproval the entire time. We're not upset. Just... disappointed.
Games Featured:
- • Lock 'n' Roll 2
- • geoSpark
- • Monopoly
- • PathPix Pro
What a lineup! The four games in this edition of Mobile Monday feature more addictiveness than a bag of Scrabble tiles containing only the letters S, N, A, E, T, I, V, C, and D!
Games Featured:
- • Focus
- • Dreamside Maroon
- • Saut
Exploration is most of the reason why many of us play video games. When a developer crafts an entire world for you to play in, it's easy to get giddy with the concept of probing every corner and climbing on top of every boulder. This week's selection features several games that are heavy on the discovery aspect of gaming. Whether it's a magical world filled with moonlight or a dark pixel cave, you never know what's around the corner until you look...
Games Featured:
- • Red Fluxion
- • Shadowreign
- • Scamper Ghost
- • Droppy
- • Hippie Phuzzle
This season, a very special Link Dump Friday, full of ghosts, spaceships, monsters, and other festive cheer. It's just our little way of saying... we care about you. And we feel this affection is best expressed in a distant, non-committal way through online flash gaming. No, no, it's okay. We love you, too.
Games Featured:
- • Auditorium
- • Cross Fingers
- • I Dig It Expeditions
I promised myself I wouldn't make this introduction all about the hyper-addictive sequel to the hyper-addictive loot gathering game I Dig It. But I did anyway. To be honest, when I made that promise, I secretly knew I was joking with myself.
Games Featured:
- • Restraining Order
- • Focus
- • rComplex
- • Igneous
RUUUNNNN!!!!! Escape games of the non-point-and-click variety are well-represented in the indie gaming community. What could be more basic than "get away from the thing that's chasing you"? Two of this weekend's titles focus on running away from something really scary. And you'll have a good time doing just that!
Games Featured:
- • Glow Cut
- • Revert to Growth
- • Magic Factory
- • Ononmin
- • Shapely
Look sharp, casual gamers! Some of us might be laden with copious amounts of turkey and stuffing, but that's no reason to let yourself get rusty! Link Dump Friday is here to help keep your gaming muscles in fighting shape with puzzles galore!
For this week's You Are Games, we want you to put on your level design tin foil hats and dial them to "R-I-D-D-L-E". We are looking for submissions of one-panel riddle puzzles to create one big honking JIG community riddle puzzle game that we will share with everyone once it's finished. Prizes will be awarded, and anyone who gets their idea(s) into the game will have a place among the credits inside the game.
Games Featured:
- • Minimae
- • Haunted Mirror Maze
- • Implode!
Oh, happy day! It's a bunch of games I get to play! From bombs to swords to ghosts in a maze. Now its time to sit and be lazy. Laze. Lazey. Laz— oh, forget it.
Still can't get enough Machinarium? Amanita Designs, creator of our favorite little lost robot, has just done everyone a wonderful (and free) favor. Now available for your listening pleasure: five previously unreleased MP3 tracks from the Machinarium soundtrack!
Games Featured:
- • Harmony
- • Featherweight
- • Dungeon
- • Devil's Tuning Fork
Two things the indie gaming community thrives on are experimentation and nostalgia. Some developers push their concepts so far the resulting experience is unlike anything we've ever seen. It may be fun, it may be frustrating, but we love it for the boundless innovation. Other developers take classic concepts and reinvent them for the modern player, resurrecting proven gaming mechanics for everyone to enjoy once again. The selection of games below illustrates both concepts quite well, with a few games blending both nostalgia and experimentation in equal parts. Gotta love indie game creators!
Games Featured:
- • Cargo Bridge: X-Mas Level Pack
- • HiRoads
- • Fly Squirrel Fly
- • R.I.F.T.
- • Beastie Burgers
- • Sketcharoo!
Link Dump Friday is here again, to put a song in your heart, a twinkle in your eye, and a new batch of games in your hot little hands. Featuring precious cargo, 3D platforming, rodents, and more, it's the Link Dump-iest day of the week, and all for you!
The JayIsGames staff along with FlashGameLicense have finally gone mad and decided to start a podcast! We call it Way Too Casual because, well, that's what we are. The bi-weekly episodes will focus on casual gaming news, events, reviews and lots more. We have some great surprises planned for future episodes. It's a great way to keep up on the biggest browser game releases and current events in the world of casual gaming. All while you go on your morning jog!
We're pleased to announce a very special Casual Gameplay Design Competition, one focused entirely on interactive fiction! For CGDC #7, we're calling on IF authors to craft one-room games incorporating the theme "escape". It's text-only this time around, so you can spend your time polishing puzzles instead of pixels. Full details are below, so fire up your Z-code compiler and get to writing!
Games Featured:
- • Rope'n'Fly 2
- • Red Planet
- • Edge
This intro paragraph was written under duress. I, a lonely garden gnome, am being held inside the house against my gnome will. I am being forced to eat vegetables, exercise regularly, and weave baskets as a hobby. If you read this, please send help. And cookies.
Games Featured:
- • The Balloon Bros Tumble-Top Sideshow Spectacular!
- • Au Sable
- • Fetus
- • Tetripong
Alternate title for this edition of Weekend Download: The Balloon Bros. Return of the Attack of the Wrath of the Download: Episode 2 Part 4 - Tetripongfetusausable's Revenge.
Games Featured:
- • Find Tealy
- • Dragon Boy
- • Haystax
- • Save the Bunny
- • Adventurous Eric
This week on Link Dump Friday! Games to brighten up your day, whether the weather's got you down, you're not feeling well, or you feel fine and dandy but you just really like games. We have tiny dragons, big dragons, and physics puzzles, oh my! So what are you waiting for? Click on over to us and turn that frown upside down!
Don't miss our CGDC #7 announcement coming November 16th!
Our 6th competition today comes to a close and we are here to honor all of the games that were entered, as well as award a few prizes, too. The "explore" theme proved a formidable challenge, while one entry captivated and moved the indie games community with its tiny worlds of pixel art.
Games Featured:
- • Samegame Gravitized
- • CREEPYTOWN
- • Rope Raider
Puzzle games YAY. I like puzzle games because they are puzzles. I also like them because you can play them really fast. I also like them because you do not have to play them a long time. I like puzzle games on the iPod Touch because I can play them laying down on my couch. I also like apple pie ice cream.
Games Featured:
- • ButaVX: Justice Fighter
- • Umbrella Adventure - The Castle of Cake
- • Home
Who needs bajillions of colors, seriously? The games below illustrate that all you need for a visual presentation are a few well-placed shades of gray (or orange and black, for the last one) and you've got yourself a visual style!
Games Featured:
- • Number Ninjas
- • The Gun Game
- • B.C. Bow Contest
- • Cat Got Lost
- • Bubble Guinea Pop
It's Link Dump Friday, where all your dreams of lethal numbers, physics gun-play, and bow-n-arrow toting cavemen come true! Wow, your dreams are weird! Lucky for you, we like that in a gamer!
Don't miss our CGDC #7 announcement coming November 16th!
With just one week left to the competition, we just want to remind everyone who hasn't already played and voted on the game entries, please do so soon. We will announce the results next Monday (November 9th)!
Games Featured:
- • Catan - The First Island
- • Dark Nebula - Episode One
- • Skullpogo
- • Boombrigade
True to its mobile gaming promises, this week's Mobile Monday is filled with pick up and play, put down and go away titles ideally suited for gaming on the go. The only exception is Catan, a game you honestly won't be able to put down and walk away from for a while.
Games Featured:
- • Heartland Deluxe
- • The White Chamber
- • Unbound
Lots of movies, books, TV shows and games try to scare people around Halloween. Instead of shocking you with things that jump out and go "BWAGGA BWAGGA!!!!", let's get a little more disturbing with a few adventure games that will make you question your sanity. Without further stalling for time and taking up valuable page space... Let's. Get. Scary.
Games Featured:
- • Haunted: The Trapped Soul
- • Halloween Sugar Rush
- • RedEye 1031
- • One More Candy
- • Pumpkin Remover
It's almost Halloween, and to celebrate, this week on Link Dump Friday we've got a compilation of seasonal games to get you in the spirit! Creepy point-and-clicks, fast-paced candy lobbing, and more! It's like a goodie bag for your computer, without all that pesky door-to-door, pretending-to-be-polite to people stuff!
CGDC7 announcement coming November 16th!
Games Featured:
- • Undercroft
- • Hi, How Are You
- • 2 Minute RPG
It's RPG madness on Mobile Monday! Ok, by "madness" I mean two role playing games. That's kinda mad, though, isn't it? It's like wow, geez, why not just throw a bajillion RPGs at us.
Games Featured:
- • Excavatorrr
- • GunFu Deadlands
- • Angry Gorilla Machine Monsters
Digging games and shooting games go together like eggs and peanut butter. I'll let you sit and ponder that one for a while, then feel free to come back and play the harmonious selection of games below!
Games Featured:
- • Colour My World
- • Hell is Other People
- • Power Pinball
- • Butterfly Fantasy 3
- • Obechi
Ready for your weekly dose of link dumpy goodness? This week, a rag-tag group of games, so mismatched they're just a pointy hairdo and a plucky heroine away from being a JRPG. Featuring a point-and-click journey into twu wuv, a shooter where the past is your worst enemy, and more, this week's Link Dump Friday is more fun than you can shake a stick at. Although if you're the kind of jerk who goes around shaking sticks at things, you probably won't like it anyway!
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Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6 games are now ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time.
Games Featured:
- • Hook Champ
- • Boxhead - The Zombie Wars
- • Gomi
- • Soosiz
Oh, oh this is just... it's great! I mean, it's just astounding! Such a collection of awesome games! I mean, I just... I'm enthralled here! I can't believe they can actually co-exist in one article! Isn't there some rule against that in, I dunno, physics or something? Too much awesome in one space can't be good for... uh... something in the universe. Right?
Games Featured:
- • You Can't Possibly Expect Me To Do That
- • Mr. Splode and the Fireworks Factory
- • Hatman
A handful of tiny, quirky, off-beat kinda games to enjoy this weekend. Want to step on spikes, die, then come back to life? Gotcha covered. Want to blow things up then run for your life? Check. Want to toss your hat? We're so into that, too.
Games Featured:
- • Atomic Super Boss
- • Must Eat Birds
- • Eridani
- • Banana Dash World 4
- • Maus Trap
This week on Link Dump Friday... excitement! Danger! Riches beyond your wildest dreams!!... well, all right. So maybe it's just another hand-picked batch of the most delicious, freshly baked Link Dump-y games from around the net. Maybe there really aren't any riches to be had. But if you don't play, how will you ever find out?
Never mind those adorable little tykes dressed like puppies or pumpkins. Forget cartoon ghosts or happily grinning scarecrows. If you like your horror visceral and bloody, we've got the game for you. Point-and-click adventure game Asylum 626, the follow-up to Hotel 626, is now accepting patients.
Games Featured:
- • Wolfenstein RPG
- • Melon Golf
- • Aera
- • Canabalt
Bit of an old-school throwback on this edition of Mobile Monday, showcasing the classic Wolfenstein franchise working in a new genre that's based on that genre the way it was back when Wolfenstein wasn't so classic. Did that make sense? Sure it did! Now go play Wolfenstein RPG!
Games Featured:
- • Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery
- • Star Guard
- • Raimond EX
It's a platforming fest on this edition of Weekend Download! We've traveled to the far away land of Platformia to find awesome run-and-jump-and-shoot games for you to play. Our expedition resulted in a backpack full of treasures, the best of which are below!
Games Featured:
- • Butterfly Fantasy 2
- • Valkyrie Battlefield
- • Demolition City 2
- • Escraft
- • Take Something Literally
Greetings from the world of tomorrow! This week, Link Dump Friday takes a totally legitimate and not at all fabricated look at your future, intrepid reader! It is a future of rampaging mechs, massive explosions, kidnapping goo monsters... holy cow, the future is terrifying! You go ahead and enjoy your deadly future filled with monstrosities, friend. We, uh, we think we'll stay here.
Games Featured:
- • Galcon Labs
- • geoDefense Swarm
- • iBlast Moki
- • Countdown
Recognize any of the titles in this week's article? Two of the games below are follow-ups to existing iPhone releases, starting their own little series on the mobile platform. And the other two games? Well, one has bombs, the other numbers. That's neat in its own way, right?
Games Featured:
- • Glumbuster
- • Jed
- • Awakener
Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they use honey combs. Why do Weekend Downloads have a bunch of games? Because spending your weekend reading about and subsequently sorting pieces of lint isn't nearly as fun.
Just a quick competition update to announce that due to some technical issues with getting the new competition page ready, we are extending the deadline by 2 weeks. We don't want to delay getting the entries up once the deadline has passed, and so we are extending the deadline to give us a little more time to prepare for it.
Games Featured:
- • Hey Wizard! Quest for the Magic Mojo
- • Icycle
- • When Penguins Attack - TD
- • Lint
- • Head Spin: Card Quest
Let Jay is Games help you prepare for the upcoming trick-or-treating by presenting you with a fine selection of ideas for costumes based on a slew of oddball games! Because at Link Dump Friday, it's all about you. And maybe you could be a naked guy on a cycle, or a wizard, or, ohhh! A penguin! How avant garde of you!
Games Featured:
- • MinMe
- • Animal Kingdom
- • Hidato
- • Parachute Panic
I'm very proud to report no hobbits or halflings were harmed in the creation of this Mobile Monday. Technically, the two terms refer to the same thing, but one comes without the nutty aftertaste of lawyers. Also: no game in this week's article features halflings or hobbits.
Games Featured:
- • Journey to the Center of the Earth
- • ASCIIpOrtal
- • GIana's Return
Three truly heavy-hitting games on this edition of Weekend Download, two of them weighing in as unofficial sequels to commercially released games. Don't let that keep you from trying Journey to the Center of the Earth, however, as it packs even more punch than the name brands!
Games Featured:
- • Headspin Space Race
- • Isis (Challenge Edition)
- • Butterfly Fantasy
- • Clouds 2
- • Ghost's Revenge
Today, on a bonus Link Dump Friday... spot-the-difference! A delicious, ripened cluster of difference games for the discerning soul who loves nothing better than to scour the surface of two seemingly identical pictures to advance the story and get the highest score! Just don't sit too close to the screen for this one. Nose smudges are hard to get off of monitors.
Games Featured:
- • Canufit
- • Mushroom Madness
- • Armored Ashura
- • Hotel Subura
- • Feeling Fancy
There's something for everyone in this week's Link Dump Friday! Assuming, of course, you're the sort of everyone who enjoys warping letters, doing unspeakable things to wildlife, and lasers. Well, who doesn't?... you say you don't? Well, then how about a swig of some magic star juice or a stay in a suspicious hotel? Perfect for what ails you!
Another quick reminder that there are now just 2 weeks left to finish up a browser game that incorporates the theme "EXPLORE". Please see the official competition announcement for details.
Games Featured:
- • Unify
- • Mr.AahH!!
- • Crush the Castle
- • Harbor Master - Ep5: Monster Cove
- • Squareball
Unify went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Then Harbor Master saw it and was all "Nuh-UH" and pushed it back down. Covered in dirt but not dismayed, Unify called his pal Mr.AahH who suggested they go to the water fountain instead. They did, and they saw Squareball on the way there, and everybody lived happily ever after.
Games Featured:
- • Do You Remember My Lullaby?
- • FallOver!
- • Duck Fight
When wacky games and serious, heartfelt games coexist, one never knows what could happen. This edition of Weekend Download pairs the decidedly quiet, thoughtful non-game Do You Remember My Lullaby? with two loud, zany platform action games. Why? Because we can!
Games Featured:
- • Zombie Farm
- • Skyfyre
- • Bloat
- • Hover Bot Arena 2
- • Teddy Goes Swimming
Four of out five people agree, Link Dump Friday is the link dumpiest of the Friday link dumps! An additional six out of five recommend Link Dump Friday for all your link dump-y needs! (And for your weekly dose of made up statistics!) This week: Scuba diving teddy bears, dragon riders, robots, and much, much more! Well, if "much, much more" can mean "an additional two games".
Games Featured:
- • Memovator
- • Copy Cat: A Painter's Puzzle
- • Alphabetic
- • Green Fingers
Just about every imaginable genre of video game has appeared on the iTunes App Store, from first person shooters to hidden object games and beyond. The kind of game I feel performs best on the system, though, are simple puzzle games, the kind you can pick up, play for a few minutes, then try it again later in the day. Want examples? I hereby order you to scroll down a bit!
Games Featured:
- • Paul Moose In Space World
- • Solar Plexus
- • Onslaught of the Electric Zombies
- • Rock Warrior
- • Cave Bounce
This edition of Weekend Download happens to be Weekend Download number 101! That means we've featured roughly 400 games since February 2007! Exclamation mark! To celebrate, today's article features five free games, enough to keep you busy for hours on end. It also features an extra amount of love, but if you've been following WD since the beginning, you knew that already, didn't you? AWWWW!!!!
Games Featured:
- • Perspectite
- • Viewpoints
- • Pixeloids4k
- • Twitch
- • CutCopyPasteGnome
This special edition Link Dump Friday is dedicated to bite-sized games. Contained herein are a few odd games that go outside the box and bring us gameplay elements we've never seen before, or are presented in ways that stun us... but they're unfortunately too short to justify a full article for.
Games Featured:
- • Cave of Wonders
- • My Pet Protector
- • Expedition Africa
- • Diepix Arena
Come on down to Crazy Jay's Link Dump Friday! We've got so many games we're positing them for free! And why? Because we're craaaaaaaaaaazy! We got your haunted hotels, we got your vicious diseases, we got your boss battles and much, much more! So come on down to Crazy Jay's Casual Gameplay this Friday and let us hook you up with the gaming experience of... well... someone's dreams! Have we mentioned we're craaaaaazy? Because that's really important!
Just a quick reminder that there are 4 weeks left to design and develop a browser game that incorporates the theme "EXPLORE". And we are pleased to announce that we have just added more prizes, too!
Games Featured:
- • Ynth
- • Geared
- • Enigmo 2
- • iEscaper
Massive puzzle game overload! Gah, it hurts us, precious! From the unique and original Ynth to the physics-oriented Enigmo 2, there's something for every brainy gamer to enjoy. Unless you're really bitter and grumpy, in which case, I suggest eating an ice cream sandwich. No one can be grumpy while eating an ice cream sandwich.
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