Ooba Glooba, Little Bees

How do you think aliens sound?
I picture green gloopy aliens with one eye and three tentacles and an O shaped mouth. And they have three fingers with little whatever-those-things-are that octopus have on their arms. They have an eggplant shaped body, move slow and go "ooba glooba".

I am reading Little Bee right now, for summer reading. I am also halfway through "Something Wicked This Way Comes" which I always think is "Something Wicked Comes Along". Jane Eyre is the most dreaded book at the moment, since its definately the longest and most boring book I chose off the list. The other books are about teenagers salvaged for their body parts, two-faced circuses that change overnight, and a book that is so special that it doesn't have a very resourceful summary(although intriguing, somewhat) and supposedly has a horrific beach scene that I have yet to read.

Little Bee is much better than I expected. I love the narrative of Little Bee, but I don't really like how it changes from her POV to the woman-who's-got-a-kid-obsessed-with-batman in every other chapter. LB's commentary and descriptions are much more interesting than the other person's. I was interested in the book when I read the summary, but then I thought, oh no, it must be one of those books that have intriguing summaries but lack of substance. And then I got the book and it was just beautiful. I figured that a book with font as wonderful as that and with such a nice summary-area on the inside cover had to be good. I judge books by the cover a lot, even though I'm not supposed to, but when you compare The Goose Girl and Treasure Island, well...

The Goose Girl - Best book ever, BEST COVER EVER!!
Treasure Island - Boring. Ew Cover.

The Goose Girl's original cover, I mean. The new one is too modernized and doesn't look like Ani/Isi at all, to me.

Anyway, I found this nice word game. Try it out:
http://www.wordsandwich.com/

And Nitrome has 2 new games:
Castle Corp
Double Edged

And, Incredibots now has an Incredibots 2. It's just really slow.
http://incredibots2.com/

VECTORPARK!!

Vectorpark is awesome. You have to try it. Its a website with a variety of interactive vector stuff. Its got crazy ideas. Everything is so simple looking and amazing with its animation and sounds and everything. I found this a while ago, I can't believe I forgot to add it to my Links list. Its now on the list, by the way. You can interact with almost everything. And you can click, drag, prod, or just hold-click, and it'll do something. The animation is cute too.

Well, they came up with a new game (except this one, you have to download. But it works on Macs too! And its $3 for the full thing. But it's not those stupid ones where you're only on the 2nd level and it makes you pay. Its just plain perfect.) It's called Windosill.

My favorite games on Vectorpark are Feed the Head, Windosill, and the one with the tri-legged creatures(Acrobots).

With Feed the Head, you don't really know when it ends. It feels like it can't go on even further, but it can. Have you gotten to the part where the head jumps over the bar stuff? I love his nose. Pull it off. Do it again. I love the trunk nose too. Give it a ball, and it'll take it with its trunk and eat it. (O_o) Different things that the Head eats causes different things. Yawning is key...

Windosill is cute. I love the first scene. For some reason, one of my favorite parts is dragging the little tree and watching it bob up and down. My actual favorite, though, is the bird scene. When you feed it the worm. And don't let go. Nothing happens, its just so cute. The puzzles are the perfect difficulty. No instructions just makes the whole thing better.

Just click it. I'm 90% sure you'll love it.

Mirror Image

New Nitrome Game.

Mirror Image - You are a warlock who seems to be unable to walk. To move, you draw lines, and the guy teleports to the other side of the line. At first it's ok, but then the little line that tells you where you'll land goes away, and that's when it gets harder.

Sentences - 3 in one sentences game. A quote is given to you in some way, but you have to either play hangman, unscramble the words, or you are given the first 3 letters of the first word and then try to guess that word (and so on with the next few words). Simple graphics.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/543681/Fish_Bowl - Small link to my blog Wordle

Tonypa and a Stop-Motion Short

Ooh! A new games website. Kinda like Nitrome, since it only shows the games they make. (Not the same style though. This one kinda focuses on simple idea.)
Tonypa - Cool animation, nice ideas. :) Try it. Clean, simple looking.

Also, a stop-motion movie I found. Click to go to the link.

Suspended time from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.

Hello! More Links.

Hello, haven't been on for a while. The finals are making everyone so busy! Anyway, a few links I didn't have time to post:

The Majesty of the Colors - Reminds me of "I Wish I Were the Moon". It's pixeled, and you're a monster with a tentacle that lives under the ocean. Little people come around and you can grab things or people and depending on what you do, they'll love you or fight you.

Meeblings - Kind of like Lemmings. All kinds of meeblings appear and each can do a different thing. Click on one to activate its power so that they get to the "Way Out" sign.

Downhill Bowling - Extreme Bowling.

Fat Cat - Nitrome, new game! A fat cat with his Burping power and his guardian owl, who pretty much does everything. :3 Cute. Get through the level by shooting all flying monsters and blasting wall with your uber burping power.

Also, powder game has new additions!
bomb - explodes when it touches almost anything
laser - shoots out lasers. (Try firework lasers. :D)(And user your laser power with player)

Toxic II and Stuff

http://www.nitrome.com/games/toxic2 - Toxic II is out!
http://playauditorium.com/ - A game with sound, where you bounce streams of light onto bars that light up and make a tune. Very pretty. @_@
http://jayisgames.com/games/ifiction/game/violet - Violet, a new interactive fiction game.

Games

Ok, a few fun games.

Bomba - New Nitrome game! Its called Bomba. Basically, you control yourself with the cursor and press space to freeze the game. Don't touch the walls and collect bomb power-ups to get rid of obstacles.

Hanna in a Choppa - Really fun! You can do a bunch with this one. Use a helicopter to do a whole variety of things. Bake a cake or herd sheep, and then do a bunch of achievements. Cute, simple graphics.

Lucromancy

Some nice short games I found. These are all short, pixelized, and storylike, and by the same person.

I Wish I Were The Moon - Take snapshots of things and move them around to change the story. There are 5 endings. :)

Heartbroken - Cut the strings(of love!) between weak relationships. I found 3 endings, but Im not sure if there are any more.

StoryTeller - Tell the story by moving the people around in the panels. It might be just me, but this link won't work on my Internet Explorer browser, but works on Firefox.

All these are from http://www.ludomancy.com/blog. (Be sure to try 3 trials too!)

Also, powder game has a new BG thing. It makes everything bigger and toon-ish. So basically, it doesnt sprinkle anymore, it gushes.

Enjoy!