Dance, Dance Revolution; and really it was, for some. Maybe you’re one of the dance dance geniuses that can that can read the speeding arrows easier than a book, and who has the stamina of a two year old and who isn’t afraid of tackling the fastest song on the hardest level. But for those of us who aren’t, there is a little flash game alternative. You don’t have to actually dance or feel like you’ve run a marathon afterward, and if you trip up, it’s the monkey on the screen who falls over, not you. Enter Dance Monkey Dance! A game involving only your fingers on the arrow keys. You still watch for the precise moment that the arrow on the screen is in the little box before hitting the corresponding arrow button, as you do in DDR. But somehow it’s less humiliating to mess up in this computer game. Continue reading →

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I learned to type with the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. It was fun for me. A contest against myself, or a race against the computer with bugs splatting on my windshield. But I have learned how to type with greater speed by playing Typer Shark! The motivation is much stronger. In Mavis Beacon you try to beat your old adjusted typing speed; in Typer Shark you try to spell the word on the shark before he eats you! Continue reading →

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It’s really unfair. The way to Sunshine Mountain is impossible, Doom Mountain the only way to go. Every step could be a trap. Is that solid ground? Sure looks like solid ground. But no, it’s a grand illusion, and you find yourself plummeting to your death. But that’s not too horrible, because as far as I can tell you have unlimited lives. However, it does keep track of how many you use, to rub it in, so to speak. I was very near 100 by the time I beat the 5 levels or so of the game. Continue reading →

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N - Way of the Ninja, is genius. In the game you play a stick figure ninja. What are ninjas good for? Well, besides getting the bad guys, they should be dexterous and gravity defying - the pioneers of parkour – and clad in black for stealth and style. In N, you match the above description. Except that you don’t get any bad guys. If there are bad things, you run from them. But you are super speedy, like a ninja would be!

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A boom that shines. Actually, I might call it Shineboom. That seems to describe the game more accurately.

Boomshine is very simple: there are little pastel colored dots floating around the screen and gently bouncing off the walls. The object is to make an explosion on the screen, which is achieved by a click of the mouse, with the aim of trapping as many of the pastel dots in the explosion as possible. When they enter the boom, they also boom.

There are 12 levels. As you advance there are more dots and more that you have to explode to progress. On level 1, you have to only get 1 of 5. On level 12 you have to get 55 of 60.

While playing, you have very peaceful, soothing background music. Even the sound of the boom is peaceful; more akin to wind chimes than actual explosions. This is a necessary feature. I don’t know how many objects level 11 would provoke me to throw across the room if it weren’t for the soothing tones of boomshine.

Another element of the game is getting a boomshine. This is achieved when every dot of the level explodes. I have only attained this once, and it was quite by accident, as most of my successes are. Now, no matter how I try, the boomshine eludes me. And boy have I tried!

Strategy. My strategy involves squinting my eyes so all the floating pastels are blurry, then I determine where the most common trajectory is and I wait for the right moment and then: click! I start the booming and shining. Does this work? Yes. Sure. It works just as well as random placement and timing.

My last score was 271. What were you able to get? Post it in the comments!

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