Sam Davyson

Need I say more! The best site for neat, well-made games with a lovable character involved in each game is YetiSports.org. Hands down. Every time. I thought it on March 22nd 2005, and I thought it in a review in late August 2005. It is simply the best. My favourite game is the 8th in the series, “The World Tour”. It is called Jungle Swing and has the yeti swinging from the trees in attempt to reach the top of the jungle canopy. Where are the penguins in this adventure? Only hours of practice will answer that.

Apart from YetiSports there is the classic Slime Games which (when complemented with YetiSports) show quite clearly that good design is simply not required for ejoyable gameplay. Slime Games are proud of their crude nature. And great fun. Although now their are loads of variations (almost 100 I think), the classic game is One Slime with its 5 levels for 1 player against computer controlled Slimes. I simplu can’t make it past level 4.

On a completely different note. A very different style of game is Fastr. As the name might give away this is a Flickr game. In it you are asked to guess the common tag for a series of photos pulled from Flickr against other people online (and the clock). It is quite fun until the same tags keep coming round. New rounds of the game run every five minutes.