Game 65: Scarygirl

Scarygirl is the sort of game that we dream about. It is enormous. It is hours long. It is at least five games rolled seamlessly into one (and that's before you take into account the eight classic console games you can unlock!). It has amazing graphics. It has an incredible intro. It is easy. It is difficult. It has replayability. It is innovative.

This is a platformer, in which you play the scarygirl of the title. You must jump about the pretty cartoon worlds picking up gems and fish, and beating enemies. You have to find your friends and gather information, build a motorbike, drive it around and all this in some of the most fabulous surroundings you can imagine. Think about if Tim Burton made a game... then make it better - then you have this. Astounding.

Game 42: Sunny Day Sky

Here in Madrid the sun is shining, as it is in the twee world of Ferry Halim, home of Orsinalgames, where the sun is always shining brightly.

In Sunny Day Sky, your task is to fly through the air clutching a small umbrella. Opening and closing your brolly shoots your little bear higher and allows him to soar further. Collecting magic apples increases your air time, but watch out for the flying ducks, which will make your teddy plummet to the ground.

The more cars and buses you pass, the more points you collect. And if your umbrella runs out of steam, a well-timed jump onto a passing car will give your bear time to recover - ready for another flight.

Controls are easy; just mouse click to open and close your umbrella.

Remember, longer flights mean higher scores, so aim for the apples to really boost your score.

Game 40: Final Ninja Zero

Big thanks to Iñigo for recommending this groovy game!

Nitrome's Final Ninja Zero is a prequel to Final Ninja, browser-based platform game of year 2008. It's 20 more levels of explosions, stealth, and lasers, with plenty of new surprises to befuddle and destroy you.

Zero tells the story of our hero Takeshi 40 years before the vendetta against his master Akuma, back when he worked as a mercenary for the espionage department of a powerful mega-corporation. During his first mission against rival Food Pharma Corp, a mission which somehow involves both samurai and hamburgers, a mysterious force incapacitates him, and he finds himself imprisoned within blah blah blah blah there are cyborg ninja monkeys!

Did you hear me? Cyborg. Ninja. Monkeys. Play this game and you get to fight them.

You also get to dodge behind pipes to hide from snipers, you get to disguise yourself as a surprisingly nimble scientist, and you get to hack into remote-controlled mines and fly them around like your own personal carrier pigeons made of dynamite.

This development team proves they possess the powers of incredible action-adventure. The rest of the internet would do well to infiltrate their lair and steal their secret.

Steer your ninja with the [Arrow] keys or [WASD]. Aim and throw stars by tapping the mouse button. Hold the button to extend a climbing rope that sticks into walls. Press [Down] to activate your cloaking device, which is a very cool effect that warps lasers around you, and of course prevents sensors from spotting you and setting off nasty alarms.

Game 35: Shadez - The Black Operations

In this real time strategy game you are "the General of a mercenary force hired by the governments around the world to fight the wars they don't want to fight." Excited yet?!

Rather than the A-Team you control a beautifully rendered army of soldiers with an increasingly powerful arsenal of weaponry. As you choose your troops and artillery wisely, they stream from left to right across the misty, Vietnam-esque landscape battling whatever approaches from right to left. With enough scope to keep you involved for hours on end, this could be another job-destroyer. Don't blame me.

Have your clicking finger at the ready and unleash hell. Click on the various options across the bottom to pick troops, arrange air strikes, roll in the artillery and more. All in the name of death... War is an expensive business!

Plan for the future... just having missiles doesn't mean you have to use them... but as long as you have them, then you can use them if things get hairy. Don't think the opponents are gonna hold back!

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 31: Mirror's Edge 2D

When, oh when, will 'real' games developers realise the joy of flash? What's that you say? Flash Portal? They did gone made a flash game of Portal... and it was brilliant, you say? Great stuff. Well here's another one, the 'hotly anticipated... etc... one to watch... etc...' Mirror's Edge creators have quite literally 'jumped' onto the bandwagon by calling in Brad Borne (not to be confused with Jason Bourne), creator of the brilliant Fancy Pants Adventures, to put together a 2D version for all us slathering netaholics.The results are exciting to say the least. Like in it's 'big game' counterpart you take the reins of delivery girl Faith - the acrobatically excellent and depressingly alluring pixellated princess, whose job it is to free-run (Derivative of the French sport of Parkour which sees its subscribers finding the most graceful and off-kilter ways of getting from a to b... with the emphasis on its being free, so anything goes) across the rooftops picking up satchels and tokens. The music is ace too, so off you go - take to the skies.

Use the left and right arrow keys to run. Hit the down arrow when running to slide, or when still to duck. Use 's' to jump, hold it to jump longer and/or further. If you jump at a wall and press the up arrow key Faith will run up the wall some. There are a few other tasty little tricks but we'll leave you to unravel those.

Keep running... the main fun in this'un is to just see how good of a flow you can gather before the inevitable slip.

Game 9: Fancy Pants Adventures

Fancy Pants Adventures is a fast paced sidescrolling platformer, a bit like a cross between Sonic and Cool Spot. It's fun and frantic, in a pair of super cool fancy pants! Although the game is very short, this is only World 1 of Fancy Pants Adventures. Rest assured that World 2 will be making an appearance in the near future...

Just remember, run fast, run fancy!

Left and Right Arrows - Move

Down Arrow - Duck / Roll

Up Arrow - Enter door

S Key - Jump