Fancy Pants World 2

If you liked the original Fancy Pants Adventure World One, you're going to LOVE Fancy Pants Adventure World 2. Brad Borne is a flash game genius!

There are a handful of games that really sucked me into their world, the old original Infocom text adventure games, especially the first, Zork, a text adventure game called "World". The first graphical game that did this was Super Mario World 64 for the Nintendo-64, and then the Turok series which were available for multiple platforms but I played them on the Nintendo-64.

The former text games succeeded in bringing me into their world because they had such vivid descriptions that I could readily see the surroundings in my minds eye.

With Mario World and Turok, it was the naturalness of the movement combined with vivid graphics. In Mario World, whenever I'd fall off of something high, I'd feel the downward acceleration of gravity as if I'd really fallen. Flying in Super Mario World 64 was an absolute trip and that's really what addicted me to that game.

Turok introduced an interesting psychological ploy in which your arm holding the controller appeared to extend into the screen holding a weapon. I think this was a particularly effective tactic. It definitely sucked me in for many hours and I found myself getting motion sickness from time to time. One of the Turok games also had this dinosaur like thing with heavy weapons that shook the Earth that you got to ride and destroy things with and that was immensely fun, especially since I got to play it on a big-screen and had a reasonably decent sound system so I could really feel the bass that went with the creatures shaking the Earth.

Now Fancy Pants World 2 has resurrected the feeling of being sucked in and part of the game. Fancy Pants World 1 had this effect to some degree but it is much stronger in Fancy Pants World 2. What is amazing is that it has done so without the aid of the sophisticated three dimensional graphics and detailed scenery present in the Nintendo games.

Fancy Pants the character is still a line drawing; though much of the scenery and other characters are much more detailed in Fancy Pants World 2 than in the original Fancy Pants World 1, and the game now makes generous use of color, but not usually natural color, instead, saturated primary colors that may or may not be realistic for the item in question.

The flash coding appears to be amazingly efficient as the game does both horizontal and vertical scrolling as well as rapid movement and update of the entire screen, and yet, even playing full screen there is no noticeable lag.


After completing a round of snail shell golf and receiving your ice cream reward, it's snatched away by an angry purple rabbit, and thus the game is kicked off, go get your ice cream! And some changes of pants while you're at it!

Rainbow Chaser

Rainbow Chaser is a Korean memory practice game similar in some ways to the Simon game. As with Simon, you are presented with a sequence of colors that you have to remember and repeat. However, unlike Simon there are seven colors, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet, instead of just four. Also, unlike Simon the colors aren't in fixed locations so you not only have to remember what order the colors were displayed in but where.

There are three buttons on the opening screen. The left most button takes you to Pure Pulses website. The second button gives you a demonstration of how to play the game. The third takes you directly to game play. If you haven't played this game before, I recommend watching the demonstration.

The demo menu has two buttons at the bottom. The left starts demo mode where the game plays itself so you can see how to play it and the right starts the game. The little bubbles won't be there, I just added those so that you would know what button does what since the game is Korean. Once you get to the actual game play, the language isn't important since it's entirely graphical in nature.

This is what the game looks like when you actually play it. You move the dropper with your mouse, pick a color and fill the dropper, then fill the blocks with the appropriate colors. It sounds simple but the number of colors and blocks increases as you play. It's a good practice for short-term register memory.

Tempt Fate

This is a simple shoot at attacking enemies type space game where you defend the Earth from attacking enemies. What makes it different than others similar games is that you can change the characteristics of the enemies.

All in all there really isn't enough in this game to keep most people interested for long, it's pretty much just a twitch finger exercise.

Fire

The object of this game is simply to bring warmth and light into the lives of as many people as possible, and what better way than by setting them on fire? Avoiding rain from the occasional black clouds overhead as they cool your flames and you shrink into nothingness.

I think the author totally missed the boat with respect to the music; a much better theme would have been a song by the Dead Milkmen, If you love somebody set them on fire.

Fancy Pants Adventure

Fancy Pants Adventure is a Brad Borne game. It has a minimalist almost stick drawing style, yet, conveys movement and action in a way that feels very natural. The animation is excellent.

Fancy pants scrolls horizontally and vertically, and there is a great deal of freedom of movement within the game. It's easy to quickly get into the game and feel like you're Fancy Pants.

As you play, you'll find yourself having to figure out new ways to do things to progress. Jump on spiders to kill them, jump up to the next vertical level, oops, too far out of reach! Bounce off the walls!

Some people have reported freezing, if this happens to you, try reducing the quality. If you have a reasonable modern computer and don't have a hundred gazillion other things running at the same time, you should be fine.

Bomb It

Bomb It is a fun cutsie web flash Bomber Man clone. The game play is crisp and smooth making it especially fun and somewhat addictive.

This will play on any suitably flash equipped computer. You don't need to download or purchase anything, just click on the image above or go to http://www.eskimo.com/games/bombit and start having fun.