F Off Friday - 26 Feb

It's been a long long week for The Go Game...just the way we like it! In between events and travel and games at Monday's Hide&Seek Sandpit we still wasted enough time online that we can bring you a full list of links for F Off Friday. Let's get to it!


Flash Game of the Week: "Pantry" by Amanita Design. This is a beautiful piece that has all the trimmings of style, colour and sound. Sure you can't beat a high score, but sometimes playing isn't all about winning. Amanita Design has a great group of beautifully-illustrated games on their website here.

F Off Friday - 19 Feb

Are you ready for a roller coaster ride through what we've been playing around with on the internets this week? Good. Let's go:

Flash Game of the Week: This Is The Only Level Too - You're an elephant and all you want to do is make it into the pipe so you can escape your graphics-deprived existence. Unfortunately for you, the crafty crew at Armor Games is conspiring against you. So annoying.

F Off Friday - 12 Feb

In a new feature here at The Go Game blog, we're going to help you waste time at work with 'F Off Friday.' It'll be a best of games (for the most part) link list that will give you a distraction from the florescent-lit workplace hellhole.

Flash Game of the Week: Unicorn Robot Attack - It's the sound that really makes this offering. From the soundtrack to the unicorn's tail, it will make even the most masculine man long for a fairy, dolphin, rainbow fantasyland.

Go Fishy - What I Learned From A Simple Flash Game

Played Online came out with its list of the best flash games of the past decade.As someone who wasted a great deal of time playing these games I was happy to see some of my favourites make the list. I spent countless hours learning how to best play Miniputt, Age of War and Defend Your Castle - remember when there was only one tower defence game?

The one game on this list that I spent the most time on was XGenStudio's Fishy. It was a simple, but difficult game that I would initially play to decompress. Before long, I would find myself obsessed. Seven years later, I can look back and determine that Fishy either taught me or reinforced various principles about game design, attention to detail and even life. Kinda intense.

More musings - and the game itself- after the jump...