Liberate the Eight

This is my take on the 'number-crunching' genre of game.

It's called Liberate the Eight. The gameplay is simple: crush together blocks of the same number to double their value. Liberate the red block to level up. The game is over when you are out of moves. This game works on mobile.

URL: www.flashbynight.com/liberate

Screenshots:

An Emo Game

I'd like to share a little 'emo' adventure game that someone sent me.

"Q - Compressing the Heart" is the story of a little guy in the underworld who has had his heart stolen and yearns to get it back. This is a point-and-click adventure game with super slick graphics. The game mechanic is that you can remove your soul from your body to get to hard-to-reach places. It's great fun.

The game loses points for being surrounded by zillions of annoying ads, but if you can ignore those, you'll have fun with it.

The URL is:

http://www.bigdino.com/game/352/Q-Compressing-the-Heart

Here's a sneak peek:

New Game: Smooth Mooves

Here's a new game release for folks who like block-type games.

In Smooth Mooves, the pace really picks up after the first couple of levels as you try to match and remove blocks from the screen before the timer runs out.

Give it a try:

http://flashbynight.com/smoothmooves/

Game Release: Retris 2

Time for another game release... introducing 'Retris 2'

Like the original Retris game (flashbynight.com/retris), Retris 2 takes the concept of Tetris and expands on it by featuring new types of blocks and bonuses. Retris is popular, but I wrote it when my programming skills were not so honed and I've always wanted to make improvements to it - I thought it would be good to make a sequel.

Retris 2 can be played at: http://flashbynight.com/retris2

Retris has 8 new block types:

1 The 'awkward' blocks - unusually and tricky shaped blocks
2 The 'eraser' block which destroys blocks of a similar colour
3 The back-and-forth block, which moves back and forth along the top of the screen until you press the down arrow.
4 The 'singles'  a column of single blocks that drop one after the other
5 Horizontal single blocks
6 The 'uber-line' - a full line of blocks that fall together
7 The 'lightning block' - a block that falls rapidly then slows
8 The superbonus - if you destroy this block in a line, you destroy ALL blocks beneath it and earn 1000 points. A lifeline, when you get into trouble.

In addition to this, blocks grouped in a rectangle of six of the same colour, will be destroyed.

Retris 2 will be in 'Beta Testing' mode until the end of November. This means that I may still be making changes to the game during this time. I'll also be taking suggestions for improvements. Post them here if you have any.

Here are some screenshots:

Things Fall Down

Time for a new Flash game and I hope you like it.

In Things Fall Down, the sky is falling and everything else along with it. Keep jumping up and keep yourself above ground.

There are fifteen short levels that would probably take around one hour to finish.

The game is at: http://www.flashbynight.com/thingsfalldown

Have a look at some screenshots here:

If you've played some of my games before, you'll recognise the graphical style. Enjoy!