F Off Friday - 12 March

Yeeehaw. It's Friday! Did you have a good week? We sure did, although the hangover from Chuck Norris' 70th birthday celebration hasn't worn off. Did you know that Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in just three moves? True story.

Let's do this.

Flash Game of the Week: Home Sheep Home - We love physics-based flash games, but there are so many out there that are done poorly. Home Sheep Home combines great physics, delightful art and sheep with names. Can't wait until there are more levels added.

Adventures on the Streets of Newcastle

One of the best parts about The Go Game is getting the opportunity to produce events in random places all over the world. Chris and I have ventured, suitcases stuffed with wedding dresses and fake moustaches and oversized trophies in each hand, from Japan to Puerto Rico to Cancun to the most exotic destination of them all: Altus, Oklahoma.

Our most recent destination: the lovely city of Newcastle upon Tyne! Our mission: drink a brewery worth of Newcastle Brown Ale wearing these sweet unofficial Newcastle-themed Nike Dunks.

F Off Friday - 5 March

Oh hi, fancy meeting you here. How was the week for the rest of you? Only a few short hours before we can all run out of our offices for the weekend. Let's hope for sunshine. For now, we'll bring some light to your dark existence with another link dump.

Flash Game of the Week: Sushi Cat. I had a tuna avocado roll earlier in the week, so this was right up my alley. Combining a gelatinous kitty with sushi and plinko? That's some Friday morning genius.

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...