Jon Dyer's Blog » Replayable Web Games http://www.dyers.org/blog Taking All Your Base Since 2002 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:13:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Replayable Web Game: Boxhead Zombie Wars http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/10/30/replayable-web-game-boxhead-zombie-wars/ http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/10/30/replayable-web-game-boxhead-zombie-wars/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:00:27 +0000 Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/?p=1851 Boxhead The Zombie Wars: The zombies are attacking and you’re well equipped to deal with it. Your goal is to kill all the zombies before they overwhelm you with sheer numbers and eat your sweet, sweet braaaains.

I have always liked the Boxhead series of games, because even though the pace has always been a little slow, the volume of zombies that the game throws at you can make it almost unnerving. In addition to the typical slow moving zombie hoards, this update gives us better graphics, faster moving characters, and some better weapons. The game seems to have done away with the creepy zombie groaning of the original, but the new boards and characters are a welcome addition.

With a score of only 533,000, I’m no Ash Williams, but maybe you can prove yourself worthy. Let me know how you do in the comments.

Good Luck!

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Maybe you can do better than 8582. Let me know how you do in the comments.

Good Luck!

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Maybe you can do better than 5,242. If you miss three times, the game is over. Let me know how you do in the comments.

Good Luck!

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I got 12,400 on level 5, so when you do better, be sure to drop your score in the comments.

Good Luck!

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You’d think that this would be the easiest game on the web, but the best that I could do was 20, and it took me quite a few tries to even get that.

If you do better, I’d like to hear your strategy in the comments because this game makes me feel like I have no skill at all.

Good Luck!

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]]> http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/07/17/replayable-web-game-crate-escape/feed/ 6 Replayable Web Game: The Last Canopy http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/07/03/replayable-web-game-the-last-canopy/ http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/07/03/replayable-web-game-the-last-canopy/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:55 +0000 Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/?p=1690 The Last Canopy ScreenshotThe Last Canopy: If I had read that this was a game about fairies trying to get a bird back into its nest on the last tree on earth, I don’t think I would have ever given it a chance. The game does have a pink butterfly, but it has frickin’ lasers strapped to its head and is being followed around by these angry little lights who are looking to kick the mechanical ass of every robot that they can find.

The game is like Galaxian on crack, but the twist that makes it replayable is the weapon absorption. By holding down the X key, you can absorb the powers of robots who are near you. The robots get better and better weapons as the game progresses, so you end up having to decide whether to kill a robot on sight, or risk being killed in the melee while you attempt to absorb its powers.

It’s all robots, lasers, and a kick ass butterfly, and I didn’t a single baby bird, tree, or anyone in a cape the whole time I was playing.

My best score was a little over 13,000, but I’m sure you can do better. Post your high scores in the comments.

Enjoy!

Play The Last Canopy


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]]> http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/07/03/replayable-web-game-the-last-canopy/feed/ 0 Replayable Web Game: Attack of the Buggles http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/06/10/replayable-web-game-attack-of-the-buggles/ http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/06/10/replayable-web-game-attack-of-the-buggles/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:00:18 +0000 Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/?p=1659 Attack of the Buggles!: Use your mouse to move around the screen touching blue boxes and avoiding red buggles. Every time you touch a box, you collect the points, and another red buggle appears on the screen.

Each blue box starts at 10 points, but with every passing second, the box’s value drops and your size increases, making speed as important as accuracy. Every 20 boxes, you get a little relief in the form of a green buggle, which gives you a small amount of time to destroy some of the red buggles that inevitably fill up the screen.

I’ve played a few variations of this game before (such as Ballo), but I think the added time pressure makes this game a lot more more fun than its peers.

My best score was 620. Post your high scores in the comments.

Enjoy!

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Where PongOut makes things interesting is that you have to play both games on a split screen at the same time. You move the mouse horizontally to control the breakout paddle, and vertically to control the pong paddle. It’s like wrestling two seniors at once: You don’t know why it’s challenging or appealing, but strangely, you keep going back for more.

When I play, I tend to suddenly and inexplicably stop paying attention to one of the sides and lose a couple of lives before I realize what’s going on, so the best I’ve been able to do is 11,035. The only essential trick to doing well in this game is knowing that pressing ‘M’ will mute the music.

Enjoy!


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]]> http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/05/22/replayable-web-game-pongout/feed/ 3 Replayable Web Game: The World’s Hardest Game http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/04/10/replayable-web-game-the-worlds-hardest-game/ http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/04/10/replayable-web-game-the-worlds-hardest-game/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:12 +0000 Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/04/10/replayable-web-game-the-worlds-hardest-game/ The World's Hardest Game ScreenshotThe World’s Hardest Game: All you have to do is move the red square from one green zone to another while picking up yellow dots and avoiding blue dots.

While I can’t say that this is truly the world’s hardest game, I will say that it’s certainly a lot harder than it looks.

Enjoy!

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Tower defense games have never held my interest, so I wasn’t expecting to like this one, but Canyon Defense has been very addictive for me. Not only is it more intuitive than than most tower defense games, but it’s the first that I’ve found that appeals to people who were into Starcraft rather than Warcraft.

My best score is somewhere in the 116,000 range and I’ve never unlocked more than four levels of defenses.

Enjoy!

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For each successive card that you play before your computerized opponent, your points for that card double (i.e. the first card you play is worth two, the second is worth four, the third is worth eight, and so on) until your opponent plays a card and resets the points back to two. Each round gets successively faster until you find yourself cursing your opponent as if it could hear you.

In my best game, I reached level 6 and ended up with a total of 6,160 points. #1GF! reached level 20, earning a whopping 10,424 points. Those are the scores to beat, folks.

Enjoy!

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If you’re still winding down from the family visits and last minute shopping, there’s nothing like a dose of virtual dynamite to clear out that holiday stress.

Enjoy!

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This is a little more difficult because you have to use the arrow keys, but what do you care? You’re just trying to make it to the other side of the holidays.

The best that I could do was 1760 points.

Post your high scores in the comments.

Update: #1GF! is at 1960 points.

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The best that I could do was 212 ft.

Post your high scores in the comments.

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I gave up after 34 levels. How did you do?

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