Game 34: Shift

¿Is the floor the roof? ¿ɹoolɟ ǝɥʇ ɟooɹ ǝɥʇ sı ɹo? And whats with that in game timer? Find the answers to these questions and more in this original puzzle platformer. Guide your mystery man through a plethora of mazes that take your sense of perception to the limit in this frustrating and boggling game!

Just like Portal brought a new way of looking at puzzles, Shift has done something similar. You have to consider both the black and the white sections as places that can be accessed and used to your advantage.

Arrow Keys to Move

Space to Jump

Shift to Shift

P to access pause menu

Game 29: Gride

Gride is an arcade-style action game in which the objective is to apply and remove abilities to an always-moving little pink car at just the right moments to make it as far as you can along the never-ending terrain. The controls to Gride are simple, but using them well is not. Rest your hand on any of the three keyboard layouts, or get ready to click the four icons at lower right with the mouse, then learn your upgrades: Anti-Gravity makes the car leap into the air. Feather speeds the car up. SuperDrag gives you a smaller speed boost than Feather, but works on steeper (and slipperier) slopes. And DeGride turns Feather and SuperDrag off.

The basic strategy in Gride is to use Feather and SuperDrag to gain speed, then Anti-Gravity to jump over the steepest parts of the hill. But be careful! If you land upside-down or start sliding backwards, it's Game Over. You have to finish on your wheels to get a high score, and high scores are the whole point: Gride has only two levels, but they both go on forever! How far can you get?

At first you may find Gride to be a little too difficult to make it very far at all. Remember, though, you're not expected to beat the game, just get as far as you can! Use your attempts to learn what terrain is coming and how best to handle it. It may take a while to get the hang of things, but with practice you will get better at it.

Game 21: Tipping Point

You've been looking for some kind of escape — a vacation to paradise, maybe, but you'd probably just settle for a nap. So, here, you now find yourself sitting in front of this screen once again. But why are you wearing those pale green socks?

Welcome to Tipping Point, a point-and-click adventure with serene, highly detailed graphics and soft music, this game is a break away from the ordinary. 

In the first chapter, you'll find yourself stuck in front of the TV, with nothing better to do than channel surf. This will soon change, as you begin to be followed by great blue herons and answer a call for help. In the second chapter, you'll be scrambling for clues along a deserted beach. Well, deserted except for the herons. They must like you. The third chapter whisks you away to a tropical rain forest with exotic birds and bugs buzzing all around. There is even a treehouse to explore.

Tipping Point is slightly strange, moderately challenging, and intensely beautiful. While the storyline is little odd and surreal, the puzzles are straightforward and logical; most can be solved just by exploring and clicking around, so don't be afraid to do a little hunt-and-clicking. As soon as the game starts to seem too simple though, you may suddenly find yourself stuck, and pushing towards your own Tipping Point!

Game 20: Quadradius

Quadradius is an online, multiplayer, turn-based game that takes the skeleton of the board game checkers, and pumps it up with a massive list of power-ups and new strategies that turns the game into an addictive and very compelling new concept. In fact, calling it checkers is an oversimplification that does not do it any justice. The best way to see what I mean is to jump in and have a go for yourself.

- Don't worry about reading instructions, click here for a 99 second video tutorial. It tells you everything you need to know, in, you guessed it, 99 seconds.

- Sometimes you have to wait a minute or two for opponents to join the game when playing as a guest. The game will make a sound to notify you when more players join, so feel free to check your facebook while you wait!

Game 17: InkLink

Remember the big Pictionary craze of years gone by? That's the party game where one player sketches a word or phrase while other people with absolutely nothing better to do try to be the first to guess the mystery item.

Well now, thanks to the clever kids at Shockwave, InkLink brings to the Internet all the excitement of Pictionary, without the need to invite the in-laws over, and the inevitable arguments that follow. You can just jump in and compete against strangers from around the world in the special gaming chatroom. 

To get started click on the picture above, press the 'play online' button, enter one of the usernames below, then just hit 'play online' again and the game should load in a new window.

You do need a Shockwave.com username and password; if you don't have one, don't worry, please feel free to use one of the usernames listed below.

You may need to install Shockwave Player (different to Flash Player) if the game isn't loading for you; you can do that by clicking here

Username: gameaday1                           Username: gameaday2

Password: free                                       Password: free

Username: gameaday3                           Username: gameaday4

Password: free                                       Password: free

Username: gameaday5                           Username: gameaday6

Password: free                                       Password: free

Username: gameaday7                           Username: gameaday8

Password: free                                       Password: free

Game 16: Incredibots

IncrediBots is a physics-based webtoy which gives you a handful of simple tools and sets you free to explore your creative impulses. Draw shapes, connect them with joints, and tweak their basic properties to create living, moving, and functioning 'bots that can perform any task! 

Because of the enormous flexibility of IncrediBots, you'll need a couple of minutes to familiarize yourself with the options at your disposal. A set of tutorial levels introduces the basics and will only take you a few moments to complete. The game also features a set of challenge levels with a few dozen (optional) tasks to work through, including moving objects around, climbing obstacle courses, and building catapults to hurtle shapes through the air. The real power (and fun) though, is in the sandbox mode, where you begin with a blank template and let your imagination run wild. When everything is ready to roll, click the "play" button to see your creation come to life!

It may all seems a little complex at first, but don't worry, it isn't. Complete the tutorial levels, which will take all of 5-10 minutes, and you'll be fully versed in IncrediBots creation. Enjoy!

Game 14: 3D Logic

3D Logic is a fantastic puzzle game developed by Alex Matveev. The goal of the game is really simple: connect each pair of same-coloured blocks with an unbroken line without crossing over another colour.

Controlling the 3D cube with your mouse, you must click on a coloured block and drag along the empty spaces to create a line that connects the pair. As there is no time limit, don’t worry if you make a mistake in the process of drawing a line. Just use the undo or restart buttons.

With beautifully smooth graphics, an automatic save which allows you to come back later, and clever gameplay, 3D Logic is a well designed and addictive puzzler. Expect to spend a couple of hours (or more) to complete all 30 levels.

To see more detailed rules use the 'Help' option.

Game 11: Samorost

Wonderfully bizarre and surreal, Samorost is an adventure game that is full of clicky puzzles and beautifully rendered scenes, mixed with animations and various gadgetry with sound effects and music to suit the mood. It's not very long, but will keep you busy for just the right amount of time. I have fit this game to a similarly sized window to the other games, though it is best played at almost fullscreen size. 

I hope you all enjoy this work of creativity and interactive art as much as I do.

Game 10: Portal

A 2D online version of the original PC/XBOX360/PS3 game; Portal: The Flash Version includes over 40 levels, and has almost every feature the orinal game does, all in glorious 2D! If you're not familiar with the original game, Portal is an extremely frustrating and addictive puzzler, the basic idea being to use your portal gun to get to the exit on each level. Definately worth a look.

Left Mouse Button - launch a portal      R - close both portals
Arrow Keys - movement                       F - pick up an object
Q - launch a blue portal                       O - adjust graphics quality 
E - launch a yellow portal                     Esc/P - pause game

Game 8: Flash Element TD

The aim of this great little Warcraft-themed, tower defense game is to kill everything that moves, from sheep to evil bosses (aka. Creeps) before they reach the end of the maze. You do this by building attacking towers on the grass around the maze. At the beginning you can build only basic towers, to build advanced ones you have to do some research using wood, you receive one wood after every 7 waves of Creeps.
Flash Element TD is yet another addictive little game, one which I have spent far too long playing, so now it's time to pass it on to you guys... Good luck!

Place the cursor over the different options in-game for more detailed information.

Game 4: Cursor*10

Although I've already posted a game today, it was technically for yesterday. So here's today's new game; I'll keep the introduction to this little gem as simple as the game itself. 

In Cursor*10, all you have to do is reach the 16th floor.  You do this simply by clicking on the stairs on each level. Simple enough then. Question is, can you cooperate with yourself??