Game Reviews

 

There are fourteen games to dissect, one for each week. For each game type (except the last two) there is a .swf file that actually runs the game, and a .fla file that you can open and examine in Flash.

.swf file .fla file
Wordsearch Wordsearch
Find the words in a puzzle -- vertically, horizontally, diagonally.
Ice World Ice World
Super Mario Brothers type with levels defined in XML.
Pinball Pinball
Popular game using collision and collision detection.
Fox and Geese Fox and Geese
Easily understood puzzle.
Fruit Smash Fruit Smash
Puzzle where you click horizontal or vertically adjacent fruits to swap places to match up three pieces of identical fruit.
ISO Maze ISO Maze
Uses random-maze algorithm but displays as isometric maze.
Jigsaw Jigsaw
Uses dynamic masking to randomly generate the shape of each puzzle-piece mask.
Matching Matching
A memory game - the object is to flip two matching cards.
Projectile Motion Projectile Motion
How projectile motion works.
Raise the Blocks Raise the Blocks
An isometric grid of 25 blocks – the object is to raise all the blocks.
Ship Ship
Shows you how a top-down game like Asteroids controls a spaceship with arrow keys.
Shuffle Deck Shuffle Deck
No graphics, just a function that handles taking a deck of cards in memory and randomly shuffling it in the fastest possible way.
Asteroids Asteroids
Clone of the commonly known game.
Pac Man Pac Man
Another clone of the commonly known game.