website. It still has a long way to go and some growing pains to go through, but is definitely the worthy candidate to become the ultimate free web gaming site. Don’t take my word for it though, try it out for yourself and take assurance that angel donors have flushed over nine million dollars into their coffers.
My 10 Favorite Kongregate Games
#1. Music Catch 2 Simple, beautiful, mesmerizing. Everything an artistic game should be. There are numerous modes you can unlock, although the basic premise remains the same. As a song plays, notes appear on your screen for you to collect. Yellow notes boost up your combo score, Red notes halve it, Purple notes vacuum in good notes, and the rare Rainbow note transforms all notes into yellow ones. Pretty simple right? The cool factor is that the notes are generated by the music playing, and after awhile of playing you will unlock the ability to use any web hosted .mp3 file as the music. The original music is perfect though, with “Leaves in the Wind” being particularly soothing and really making me wish I had kept up with the piano.
#2. SeppuKuties
Ah, the beauty of SeppuKuties. When their home is deforested, a band of annoyingly cute animals band together to make it to Paradise Meadows. What follows is 21 levels of death and mayhem, as cute is punished and the animals crawl over their own dead comrades to make it over fatal obstacles and find a new home. Yes, the game is twisted and demented, but totally right on the mark. Seppuku for those not familiar, is a Japanese ritual suicide in which a sword is used to disembowel oneself. Cute!
#3. Battalion: Nemesis While it may just be a web browser based tactical strategy game done in the style of Advance Wars, Battalion is done very well and has some pretty interesting things going on—including a campaign and a bonus map. The AI is competent and not overbearing, actually using terrain and unit advantages in its favor. Like many strategy games though, once you break the initial attack waves, the AI can’t convert into defense. The most pleasant thing about it
was that it included air, sea, and lands units, quite successfully creating unit balance and fun maps that featured usage of all three fronts.
#4. Factory Balls 2 A fairly simple, straightforward puzzle game where you’re given a variety of tools to transform your plain white ball into an exact copy of a more colorful one. It starts off simple, but quickly begins to challenge the way your brain thinks as you learn to process things as first in-last out instead of first in-first out. The game is never overly difficult and can easily be finished in a single sitting.
#5. Don’t Shit Your Pants How do you make a game about going to the bathroom exciting? Don’t Shit Your Pants designer Rete had an idea to use 8-bit graphics, implement a timer, and introduce the world to the first adventure, survival, horror game. Armed with no knowledge of commands, it is up to you to break out your old King’s Quest skills and figure out how to get on that toilet before you ruin your pants. Entirely juvenile and surprisingly fun, this is a game to play with your friends. After all, there is nothing like your buddies screaming at you to “Pull down your pants!” The best part is there are nine distinct endings and discovering them all can be an epic adventure.
#6. Light-bot Maybe it is due to my computer science past, but I absolutely adored this little game. You play as the programmer of an automated robot that will follow your every command to a ‘T’, no matter how bad it is. What makes this game special is that it takes a true programmer’s brain and knowledge to finish. Armed with a main function and two extra functions that you can call, one must learn how to cope with limited programming space and figure out a way to trim their code to perform seemingly impossible tasks. Definitely a cool game that any teacher could implement into a lesson to illustrate how functions can be important in coding, and to improve creative problem solving.
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