Posted by admin on July 24, 2009 under Found on the Net, Free Games | 
There are some great free casual games up on dressuprose.com. Just posted today is the hidden object favorite Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey. In the game you dive under the sea to find hidden objects so that you can afford to have an expensive salt water aquarium at home! Buy fish, plants and accessories for your tank with the money you earn from your dives. The game offers hours of hidden object fun, a timed and relaxed mode and tons of exciting mini games. The online version is great but the screen size, sound and graphics are a bit limited. If you find that you really like the game, you can download the PC or Mac versions here:
Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey for PC
Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey for Mac
Just Click the Screenshot Above to Play the Game
Posted by admin on July 23, 2009 under Free Games, Game Giants, New Games |
Ok right off the bat we admit from the screenshot you might be saying to yourself that this can’t be a decent game. Well read our little review and play a little bit before you decide……
This summer has been a real disappointment for casual games in general. It is not that there has not been any games released, there have been plenty of games. Plenty of really, really Bad Games! As you know our goal on gamegiants is to shield our followers from the free games that have poor gameplay, revisit tired genres or just plain don’t function! It seems that developers just don’t do any QA anymore and find it more important just to churn out multiple non functioning, poorly thought out, copies of someone elses games. In short, they are producing CRAP!
It is easy to understand why. Developers get paid for games mainly in two ways license fees paid by portals and by ad views. This is a terrible revenue model and really leads to poor games. Right now there are an endless number of portals bidding to license games. You would think they would only pay for quality but that is not the case. The portal owners want the coveted “Play More Games” link back to their site in the game. That is what they are really paying for. If the game sucks so be it. If the game sucks the player may even be more likely to click the “escape” link and head over to the linked portal. Traffic to the portal means $$$. So crappy games get sponsored by portals.
The other revenue source is from ads. The ads are supplied by the real money maker in the whole industry. The middleman. He provides the pre-roll and in-game ads to the developer but the developer only gets a small portion of the revenue. In reality a very very small amount per game view. When a new game is posted on a portal it usually will be played while it is on the front page. Players will start the game, watch the ad and then play it to see if it is any good and if they may replay it. The majority of views happen at this time for most games. So again it is to the developers advantage to churn out quantity, instead of quality. More games means more initial clicks and more ad revenue.
The developer of Push, The Casual Collective, has resisted the urge to produce large quantities of worthless games merely to increase cash flow. They have produced many quality games such as Buggle Stars , The Space Game , and Desktop Tower Defense which we have featured here on gamegiants.net.
Push is a platformer. Your goal is simple. Get your little grey pixel guy to the yellow box. Your character’s movement is controlled by the arrow keys and jumps are made with the space bar. So what is innovative about this? As you see in the screenshot above there is no clear path of moves and jumps from your starting position to the goal. This is where the “Push” comes in. Holding the left mouse button down produces a force bubble that repels the green bricks and even the yellow goal. The longer the mouse button is held the larger the bubble. While the button is held you can move your character into the gaps formed by the bubble or jump onto one of the tiles in it’s new position. When the button is released the force bubble slowly collapses and the bricks return to their original positions. If you jumped onto a brick, you will move with it to it’s new position. This opens up endless solutions to each level. There is no true “right” path that needs to be followed.
The game comes with many extras. Three difficulties of levels, an editor to create your own games and the ability to play levels created by other users. All in all a well thought out polished product. Push is the kind of innovative game that we love to see! Support The Casual Collective and quality free Flash games by playing Push!
Click the Screenshot Above to Launch the Game
Posted by admin on July 22, 2009 under Uncategorized |
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