Because it's filler, filler night.

February 1, 2008 2:30 PM

Flash Friday: Filler. Fill the 2/3 of the available space using as few spheres as possible while avoiding the bouncing balls.
posted by ooga_booga (34 comments total)

Wow, that's really fun... thanks!
posted by Pantengliopoli at 2:51 PM on February 1, 2008

Qix!
posted by The Bellman at 2:51 PM on February 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

awesome game... i love it. thanks.
posted by adrober at 2:55 PM on February 1, 2008

Is this buggy? I seem to be getting hit when I'm no where near those opponent balls.
posted by unixrat at 2:55 PM on February 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

You may be running out of balls unixrat -- no offense. Note that there are a set number for each level. If you make too many the "flash" is the same as if you had hit one.
posted by The Bellman at 2:58 PM on February 1, 2008

unixrat, I think that once the ball counter (upper right portion of the screen) gets to zero, every additional ball counts as a life.
posted by indyz at 3:00 PM on February 1, 2008

Must stop playing 22,210...
posted by foodgeek at 3:00 PM on February 1, 2008

I seem to be getting hit when I'm no where near those opponent balls.

A couple of levels in I'd try to puff up a big one in a top corner and one of the bouncy balls would appear out of nowhere. Otherwise addictive and enjoyable, thanks!
posted by carsonb at 3:02 PM on February 1, 2008

When a ball gets "crushed" it reappears in the upper right. Good to know if you're building stuff. I got to level 30 once, but it starts to get pretty insane after 20. On the plus side, some magical threshold is reached where the flash rendering really slows down and your reaction times are hence "improved"...
posted by maxwelton at 3:07 PM on February 1, 2008

Hoisted by my own petard.
posted by nzero at 3:11 PM on February 1, 2008

Everyone else is correct - I didn't realize that there was...

a) A ball limit
b) That the crushed balls come out of the right hand corner.

Two thumbs up!
posted by unixrat at 3:15 PM on February 1, 2008

very cool. thanks.
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 3:21 PM on February 1, 2008

This is getting too slow around level 20 for my lousy work computer. But they won't listen when I say I need a faster machine!
posted by aubilenon at 3:24 PM on February 1, 2008

I love this game.
posted by arcticwoman at 3:30 PM on February 1, 2008

BRAVO! Thanks ooga!
posted by parm=serial at 3:44 PM on February 1, 2008

Aaah I get this now. I played this a few weeks ago, and like unixrat, I couldn't figure out why I was dying without touching any balls. Now it all makes sense.
posted by Jimbob at 3:46 PM on February 1, 2008

Eek! 20k points, level 11, nearly blind now. Only complaint is that the app window is too small, so every time I slip out while building filler, it keeps growing and I get hit.
posted by VulcanMike at 4:23 PM on February 1, 2008

Must stop playing...I'm at 51,000 with 68 balls and 26 lives left...but I have stuff to do!
posted by statolith at 4:24 PM on February 1, 2008

Oh balls, there goes my productivity...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:38 PM on February 1, 2008

Significant ball speed difference between IE and Firefox -- Firefox felt like sudden death. IE could be described as "pleasant."
posted by VulcanMike at 5:09 PM on February 1, 2008

May the man with the biggest balls win!
posted by furtive at 5:58 PM on February 1, 2008

Nothing loads for me, must require Flash 9. Bah! Lazy programmers, always requiring the absolute latest environment ...
posted by intermod at 7:25 PM on February 1, 2008

I didn't notice the first few times playing that I was able to move the mouse while 'inflating' a ball. After I that the game became much easier for me. I also use some balls as sheilds to deflect the bouncers leaving more room for the next, larger ball.
posted by JakeEXTREME at 7:26 PM on February 1, 2008

It is like quix, but easier

Qiite fun, I like trapping the little buggers
posted by mattoxic at 7:49 PM on February 1, 2008

My highest score is 77,878. Not amazing but decent I'd say. Don't ask me how the leaderboard scores got up to the hundreds of millions or billions (can't tell due to some formatting error with the date).
posted by JakeEXTREME at 8:35 PM on February 1, 2008

38,252 and I have to purge the URL from my brain now.
posted by Foosnark at 9:09 PM on February 1, 2008

I am on level 57, with 147,000 points. I can't stop playing this game. MAKE IT STOP
posted by anomie at 9:23 PM on February 1, 2008

It was fun, but I got bored at level 20.
posted by oddman at 11:33 PM on February 1, 2008

Reminds me of mono with the hyper-aware twitchiness you develop. Lots of fun.
posted by scose at 12:04 AM on February 2, 2008

>Significant ball speed difference between IE and Firefox -- Firefox felt like sudden death. IE could be described as "pleasant."

Hmmm I was wondering why I seemed to be so useless... MUST... RESIST... BOOTING... UP... IE
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:19 AM on February 2, 2008

Flagged as fun! But my question is... How do you make the bouncy balls "orbit" each other. That happened once for me, but had no clue as to how.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 6:20 AM on February 2, 2008

Arrrgh! *scratches post out of "stuff to post" bookmarks, goes back to playing Filler.*
posted by loquacious at 9:34 AM on February 2, 2008

43,842 and level 21. Cool game. Thanks.
posted by ND¢ at 3:42 PM on February 6, 2008

104,874 and level 43 and now I have to go to bed.
posted by ND¢ at 8:34 PM on February 6, 2008