{"id":204,"date":"2008-01-19T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T07:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/flash-games\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T07:08:56","slug":"flash-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/flash-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my thrice-weekly-blogging quest, I&#8217;m going to try to use Fridays as &#8220;link day&#8221;.  For the first Greg The Aggregator day, I&#8217;m going to link to some of my favourite flash-based games.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s the stupidly-simple <a href=\"http:\/\/linerider.com\/play-line-rider-online\">Line Rider<\/a>.  The deal is simple: draw lines and a little guy on a sled rides down them.  You wouldn&#8217;t think that would be so addictive, but I distinctly remember spending an entire Friday afternoon in the CSSS common room with Jen trying to make him do loops, flips, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have recently been addicted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/SimianLogic\/filler\">Filler<\/a>, which doesn&#8217;t seem to be working for me right at the moment, but will likely be back soon.  There are some little balls bouncing around: avoid those.  You place bigger circles around the grid until you&#8217;ve filled up 2\/3 of the board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.games1.org\/flash-games\/Shuffle\">Shuffle<\/a> isn&#8217;t much more than a flash version of marbles, but fun.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/Kabomb\/zwingo\">Zwingo<\/a> is another marble-like game.  Your job is to guard the big marble in the centre with the marble-on-an-elastic that you control.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, none of those sound like much fun, but go play them and find out.  Oddly, all of the games I&#8217;ve listed here have at least a little physics involved.  I guess we&#8217;ve figured out what I like in a simple flash game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my thrice-weekly-blogging quest, I&#8217;m going to try to use Fridays as &#8220;link day&#8221;. For the first Greg The Aggregator day, I&#8217;m going to link to some of my favourite flash-based games. Of course, there&#8217;s the stupidly-simple Line Rider. The deal is simple: draw lines and a little guy on a sled rides down them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}