It’s no secret that I prefer open-ended, creative game to the Press B to Shoot type. I wrote about GrowCube about a year ago, and I really think the whole collection of sandbox-y Grow games are addictive flash games at their finest.
Grow Tower is the newest Grow game. The mechanics of adding interactive parts in different orders is the same, but this time, you add different pieces to build a tower to the sky! 
Go here to try it for yourself.
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I wrote about Nick Bounty: A Case Of The Crabs over on my personal blog, Simpson’s Paradox.
The Nick Bounty mysteries are flash games (or free downloads) from the independent Pinhead Gamescompany. The first mystery is called A Case Of The Crabsand the second The Goat In The Gray Fedorawhich gives you an idea of just how serious they are.
Nick Bounty is a parody of a hardboiled detective, with deadpan painful metaphors and black-and-white sketch noir graphics. You don’t have to love trenchcoat detective stories, old movies or retro gaming to enjoy this free flash game, but it helps.
I’ve written about feeling trapped in games with set answers, and the need to pick the “correct” choice or highest-point choice instead of the funniest dialogue choice. In Nick Bounty games, when you pick a sarcastic comment, instead of the obvious plot-advancing choice, the game shoots sarcasm right back at you.
This is a free flash game so check it out!
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A post on VGViews compares old mystery games (Laura Bow) with new mystery games (Nick Bounty). The Nick Bounty games stack up very well, and the reasons are interesting.
One of the problems with Laura Bow, and with Sierra games in general, was the many ways to accidentally kill yourself. Getting into the elevator? Oh, sorry, you didn’t say you checked to see if it was on your floor. You fall down the elevator shaft and die. Crossing the road? You’re hit by a bus and die. Petting a cat? You contract a particularly virulent strain of rabies and die. Eating some candy? Well, you get the picture.
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A few days ago, I discovered the Nick Bounty mysteries, flash games(or free downloads) from the independant Pinhead Games company. The first mystery is called “A Case Of The Crabs” and the second “The Goat In The Gray Fedora”, which gives you an idea of the seriousness. (I think Laura’s boyfriend in one story was a dockworker called Steve Door)
Nick Bounty is a bit more campy, with black-and-white sketch graphics, and sarcastic comments and narration, imitating hardboiled detective novels.
Read the whole article here.
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My God… Stile must be snorkeling around in a pool of Redbull and liquid crack over there as it only took him a week to update his website. Goodie for us, though, ‘cuz that means more flash games including a reality/animated space shooter and a unicycle sim. Oh, and the best one is an interracial version of Donkey Kong. How very progressive, Stile — we enjoyed Guess Who, too!
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Uh, yeah. We visit STILEPROJECT for the flash games just like we read Playboy for the articles. We swear.
Here are some of our faves from Stile’s Tuesday update:
Potman
Onsen Pingpong
Shuriken
Snow Blitz
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