Ninja Rush
Ninja Rush is a sidescrolling shooter in a classic mode. By "classic" I mean reminiscent of the early arcade, or the NES era.Scrolling is forced; your ninja runs headlong forward, though you can...
View ArticleDrifting Afternoon
Ferry Halim has, over the years, produced some of the most polished and most pleasant Flash games imaginable -- 'casual' in the sense of highly accessible and not particularly difficult, but typically...
View ArticleSandy Evolution
Developed for a TIGSource contest, Sandy Evolution is a classic sidescrolling shmup with many of the tropes of the form, particularly enemies that attack in predictable patterns, but with a curiously...
View Articlee7
e7 is a moody little Flash game that I call a platformer in the tags above, but if it is one, it's an unusual one. You play a little half-disc in a blue-and-black landscape in a sidescrolling view, and...
View ArticleUlitsa Dimitrova
In Ulitsa Dimitrova, you play Pyotr, a seven year-old homeless boy in St. Petersburg. The graphics are stark pen drawings, the music an annoying recorder tune. You are a chain smoker, and need to...
View ArticleSolipskier
Solipskier was a 2011 IGF Finalist -- in the mobile games category, and it is available for iOS and Android, but there's also a free Flash version you can play online.It's a rapidly-moving sidescroller...
View ArticleStick Run
Okay, I could be totally wrong here, and I invite correction, but if I'm right, we have our first real indie social game hit.Stick Run is by Otto Manuel, who has done a series of Flash-portal games,...
View ArticleDust
Dust is a beautiful and odd little game, and is, unsurprisingly, a student showcase finalist for the 2012 IGF awards. It's a sort of sidescroller, in that motion is left-to-right, along a linear path,...
View ArticleCaveman Craig 2
The original Caveman Craig was released back in 2008, and apparently the Andrews brothers have been extending and refining it since. The basics of the new game are the same as the old. Unlike the RTS...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Robots
The Trouble with Robots is a sort of single-player, sidescrolling trading-card game, with something of the feel of tower defense. The backstory is that a flying saucer has landed in a fantasy world,...
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