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Web Game of the Day: commonweal
Hello everyone. It’s been a while, I had to deal with some personal stuffs that took me away from web games. But now I’m back to share new interesting experiences for your browser. commonweal is a cryptic multiplayer game with no real instruction or guidance. You explore a depressing world under a permanent rain. You…
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Web Game of the Day: Homecoming
For the last Web Game of the Day, I mentioned Flash Forward, the annual game jam on Newgrounds to create new Flash games. Today’s game is part of the jam, and it’s a whole different thing. Back in the Flash era, visual novels were not a huge genre but there still was a few VNs…
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Web Game of the Day: Lampyrinth
Every year on Newgrounds takes place Flash Forward, a three months long game jam dedicated to Flash. I said it before and I said it again, it still amazes me to see the Flash scene is still alive and thriving. This jam is not just about nostalgia for the Flash era, it is also a…
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Web Game of the Day: SPELLBOUND
Content Warning: Depression, suicidal thoughts Using the medium of videogame to tell personal stories is a difficult exercise. You have to be willing to be vulnerable enough to let people explore parts of your life, to share emotions that were felt and to tell stories that are emotionally true. SPELLBOUND is a game about living…
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The Museum of Screens Research Team: Legend of Zork
The Museum of Screens Research Team is a serie of posts dedicated to research and document web games that are lost or at the risk of being lost. Hey, did you know there was a Zork browser MMO? That it was released in 2009 and was terrible and shortly closed afterward? And that it was…
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Web Game of the Day: Wishlist
Making a game when you are a solo developer is a weird experience. It is somewhat a gratifying but stressful and isolating experience. Most of all, being noticed, getting people to actually play your games means most of the time playing the algorithm’s game: Post gifs of your game regularly, boost engagement, keep people updated…
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Wordle is no more
You might have heard the news: NYTimes, copyright holder of Wordle, started sending DMCA takedown requests to Wordle clones. So far, major Github repositories were taken down, and it is probably only the beginning. I talked about Wordle in the past, how it was a surprise hit because it reminded everyone how the Internet could…
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Web Game of the Day: Le Chat Fonce and the Secret of the Clock Tower
Today’s game is a platformer that is… Simply amazing looking? For real, the blend of 2D sprites and 3D environment to give depth to the levels you explore, and the city in the background you can see out of the windows, it’s so simple and yet so effective. It is a blend betweent platformer and…
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Web Game of the Day:A Very Bold Character
Today’s game is very small. Smaller than most web game, smaller than a demo. It is in fact a tech demo to demmonstrate the capacities of a new Javascript based game engine. So, why am I featuring it? Because it feel like it was made for me and me alone: It’s an ASCII platformer game…
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What was the first Flash Game – Ep 5: Dead ends
This post is part of an ongoing serie of posts about my researchs of the very first Flash game ever released. List of the previous episodes: Welcome back. It’s been a while. I put off writing this blog post for a while, because of two reasons. The first one is, because of some weird coincidence…