#eyezmaze

[flash-from-the-past]

Grow Island

[blazerlazer555]

i enjoy how this creates the illusion of a thriving community with individual characters getting fanart

[museum-of-screens]

GROW Tower (2009) 

Creator(s): On

Type: Flash

Language: [EN] 

Status: Available through emulation

[leothelilpotato]

On the topic of Eyezmaze, shout-out to the time I actually designed gijinkas of the Onkies of Grow Valley based on the fuckloads of times I desperately tried to find the right combination.

[kulekrizpy]

take a few minutes to be delighted by eyezmaze's creativity <3

[cablecchewer]

was hungry for some grow v2 series soundtrack loop so i made it myself,

enjoy <33

[kelpro]

[negative-zerospore]

Rebloogging aging because of recent attention but the creator of these has a website called Eyezemaze!

https://www.eyezmaze.com/

Here is the website link genuinely has so much fun shit on it and I mean it.

These games the Grow games have never left my mind for a fucking second i know im like Primarily a horny blog but i need more people to support these games lol

They are so damn good and their vibes are unfuckingmatched!!!!!

[puppppppppy]

Childhood

[flash-from-the-past]

Grow RPG

[ferbtv]

I'd also recommend Ancient Greek Geometry - ever just play around with a compass in school? this is like that, with some challenges to make specific shapes

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[blazerlazer555]

first posted 10/DEC/23

Mr. ERROR from EYEZMAZE

[a-shrieking-cloud-of-bats]

oh yeah eyezmaze is also fucking fantastic go mess with that

iconic

you will love it I assure you

[leothelilpotato]

Eyezmaze games save me... Eyezmaze games... save me Eyezmaze games...........

[flashgamesmybeloved]

Grow Island (ON, 2007, Eyezmaze)