Enjoy!

August 6, 2003 10:00 PM

The game designers at Orsinal have been busy since we last discussed them, with a number of new amusing & lovely games. For those who haven't been there yet, and for those who haven't been there in a while, stop by and play... if only all flash animation were done with this degree of care and attention to aesthetic.
posted by jonson (12 comments total)

Wow.

Thank you so much, Jonson... what a delightful collection.
posted by silusGROK at 10:50 PM on August 6, 2003

Orisinal is pretty incredible, even more so because it's all the work of one person, Ferry Halim (AFAIK.) I also know from experience that Ferry is not above answering newbie's questions about Flash game development.

I'm always on the lookout for people like this that develop games with an independent, DIY approach. gameLab, the makers of the recently posted Arcadia, was founded with the intention of spurring the growth of an indie game dev scene. Anyone know of any other folks working towards this goal?
posted by Fourmyle at 11:15 PM on August 6, 2003

this game is the worst.... stupid things are so damned cute, i feel guilty whenever i can't save'em...

my friend watched me play it once and when he first saw me lose one of the chickens, he screamed out loud, "how do you sleep at night?!?!"
posted by lotsofno at 4:41 AM on August 7, 2003

These are fantastic. Thanks jonson!
posted by debralee at 5:43 AM on August 7, 2003

oooh, very cool. Another nonproductive day at work coming right up.
posted by widdershins at 7:27 AM on August 7, 2003

Okay... I'm about to really embarrass myself, but is there a way to download these for offline use? I've never seen anything in Flash that I wanted to download... so I've never looked into it.
posted by silusGROK at 7:44 AM on August 7, 2003

Send the developer a question directly - according to Fourmyle he'll be nice about it if you're polite to him (which I think is remarkable as well, for the record, that one person could have done all this).
posted by jonson at 8:08 AM on August 7, 2003

Still cute and addictive, aren't they?

You might also want to read slightly silly yet informative b3ta interview.
posted by O9scar at 8:46 AM on August 7, 2003

der - I meant to say this slightly silly...
posted by O9scar at 8:54 AM on August 7, 2003

awesome awesome! apple season just happens to be a clone of my favorite atari 2600 jam, Kaboom!
posted by mcsweetie at 9:39 AM on August 7, 2003

Visi0n - Go into your system's cache of online content; look for anything ending in .SWF, copy it to another directory (so it doesn't get deleted), and enjoy.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 10:24 AM on August 7, 2003

Yeah! Thanks, Civil_Disobedient! You're the bomb! ... Or maybe the little shower of rain that I drop on dirty birds as I fly around to pretty, soothing, music.
posted by silusGROK at 10:02 AM on August 8, 2003