The Best Free Online (in-browser or downloadable) Games

btw, if anybody else is playing this...any idea what it means when you click on the level and get the little dialogue box establishing the "plot"...to the right of your stars are two other blanks, one sort of crown-shaped and the other looking like a chesspiece or something... what the heck are those? They're blank in all my levels, not sure if I'm missing something important and it doesn't jump out in any of the skimpy documentation...

oh n/m just figured it out! has to do with beating it in non-Normal mode, once you've unlocked the other modes....duhhhh

I assumed the tunnel ended eventually, but I must've gone through like 20 screens of it, and couldn't tell if the end was going to be on screen 21 or 121, so I bailed.

― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 26 October 2012 20:44 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

were the people who had this response playing with the sound off, i wonder

I definitely had the sound off, I guess that would've told me?

There's an irrelevant narration of an imaginary, weird history of the sport of boxing, which adds another sentences or so every few screens that you're going in the right direction; this is the only real cue that it's not just a completely infinite journey in the deep.

this game was great. totally disappointed when i made it to the end.

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

^ would love to try, have downloaded, but i cannot find it when i unzip it. have tried three or four times, i swear i'm going nuts here.

Antivirus being overzealous maybe? Unpacked fine for me (though tbf haven't actually played it yet, was just excited by their youtube).

Looks good, but runs like a slideshow on my PC.

Ha, yeah, finally played it and the thing this game taught me is that the dudes at MIT must have a pretty warped perception of how powerful ordinary people's pcs are.

not down with OPPCs then.

ran fine on this old thing even on the highest settings. it's very dull as a game tbh

Have we talked about Dikembe Mutumbo Saves The World? Cuz holy shit.

Also that Skrillex game?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/3/3722178/indie-developer-advergames-dikembe-mutombo-skrillex

Favorite random bit: during a random death on the minecart stage, Dikembe becomes fat and says "I'm fat now."

i posted on I love Hoops; it's pretty impressive

http://www.indiedb.com/games/pokmon-3d
damn yo

http://www.incredipede.com/
Pretty great!

Interesting, like Fantastic Contraption (some of the graphics are the same so maybe it's be the same people?) crossed with QWOP.

this look worth a whirl
http://teleglitch.com/

http://www.molleindustria.org/kosmosis/kosmosis.html

http://i.minus.com/iduImtFKsdBzl.png

;_;

is the Dikembe game no longer available, or is my computer just being an asshole.

also if people want to rep for stuff in here before i make my coint and plick ballot, i will try to give stuff a shot

i second that, would love some last minute CP12 links in here. i am only now trying frog fractions for the first time in what feels like a very, very shallow pool this year -- it will prob make my ballot on account of that

give fallen london a try

ok fallen london is pretty damn cool

waiting for actions to refresh is super annoying though, am i missing something

It's better than it used to be but it is incredibly annoying, yes. You have to get used to the whole 'play for five minutes, wait for five hours' thing; a lot of free games do this now and it makes me want to kill. Does FL really count as a game of this year, though?

Also, allow me to say FROG FRACTIONS just one more time.

I think FL has been updated enough (including the new name and stuff) that it should count as this year... and it's definitely the kind of game you periodically check into instead of play in big chunks of time.

Story Nexus might be the exact 2012 release... Tom Chick included FL on his list of best games here.

the waiting killed FL for me pretty quickly, it seems more than a lot of these games to call for an immersive experience but never gives you time to get immersed, much less so than something like Kingdom of Loathing.

having said that, i'm curious to revisit because Tom Chick's review makes it sound a lot stronger than it was when it started.

Mordy (or anyone else), have you tried any of the other games on StoryNexus now they've opened it up for public development?

http://gamejam.bossastudios.com/

is this a qwop type deal or am i just terrible

it's basically impossible

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/

demo of above: http://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css3-fps/

Fucking bonkers.

oh my lord, frog fractions

http://jayisgames.com/games/400-years/

sweet.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/briderider/fps-man

cute

okay, what is this
http://chrome.com/maze/

addicted to MMO bomberman: http://bombermine.com/

xp turns a webpage into a Marble Madness type game. Also if you have a phone that uses the Chrome browser, the phone can be used as a motion controller.

!!!!

it's been over a month since i mentioned this, so i feel obligated to say that i am perhaps the best Marble Madness player of all time, at least on NES. i gotta check this out.

"turns a webpage into something that makes Chrome use all your CPU and doesn't do anything" is a more accurate summary of my experience so far, but it sounds p. cool

(my laptop is pretty underpowered for gaming, but more so than a phone? I hope not)

Yeah, the page doesn't do anything at all for me. Just shows a few loading bars at the bottom.