Results tagged “Flash”

If you played One Button Bob before, you know the deal. The whole game is controlled by your left mouse button (or your only button, if your mouse is stupid). This allows you to jump, attack, dodge, turn around, and even walk, depending on the screen (on each one you can only do one thing).

Back in the days I wrote a short blog post about this artful port created by Michael Rennie. Somehow I just remembered it, and thought it would be a nice idea to add it to the games section. Why? Mostly because it rocks. Yeah, I know about Quake Live. I know about Unity player. I know there are just so many browser based 3D shooters (or, well, at least "some"), but looking better doesn't make them actually greater game experiences.

Quake is a piece of the history of videogames. An important one. Hell, do you like totally 3D FPS games? It was the first one moving from sprites to actual models, back in 1996, and it made us all shit our pants. It was terrifying back then. I remember being kind of unable to play it long enough when I was younger. I actually completed it later than Quake 2.

And now, here it is, in an 8.6MB flash file, embedded in a browser.

Play it directly through this link or select it on the Games! section.

Small compilation of games ready to be played directly on your browser. Carefully selected! Please, note that by default they will open in the same frameset you currently are, meaning they won't load a different tab or window. If this is what you want, remember to use your Internet browser options to do so (middle mouse button, or right click -> open in a new tab/window).

Good luck and have fun!

...Flash!


If you had a childhood, then probably there's nothing I need to tell you about Quake. If you didn't, well, 1996 was a great year for videogames, mostly because of Quake. id software made the big jump to full 3D graphics on a first person shooter. And it was so amazing we're still getting Quake games more than 10 years afterward. Some people say Quake 2 was way better. I must say that it didn't have half of the ambiance and feeling the first one had.

This awesome programming time sink in flash was developed by Michael Rennie, and you can check it out right here. It even has the console!

Orpheo was an important figure in the Greek mythology, and in the Western culture as a whole, as he served as inspiration for poetry and music during most of the classical period, and as a consequence, impregnated some of the foundations of these arts as we know them today.