A minor "Woo-Hoop!" my highest score ever...

[capri0mni]

In Bubble Bees: 4,870! (granted, the highest score on the winners list is 500,480, but a personal bests are good, too).

Okay, this may not be the most thrilling game of all time, concept-wise (the idea is to catch bumble bees inside soap bubbles as the fly by). But I've found it to be subtlely addictive. The instructions on the opening page tell you how to catch a bee, and (in very small print) tell you that you get bonus points for catching more than one bee at once. But there are some other details they don't tell you:

You start out with a minute to catch as many bees as you can, and a minute isn't too long -- you can spare that much time to play, right? But then, every time you hit 500 points, you get another ten seconds to play.

1 bee = 10 points
2 bees = 100 points
3 bees = 500 points (and an automatic time extension)

So miniscule differences in your timing can mean the difference between getting 30 points and getting 500 points. So no matter what your my score is, there's always the sense that you I could do better next time, so you I play again... and again... and ...yeah.

Also, there are falling alarm clocks that occasionally drop through (apparently, the ones thrown out the window by the kid who wanted to see time fly), and if you catch one of them in a soap bubble, you get 5 extra seconds...

So the simple little minute game can quickly become five, and five become ten, etc. But they don't tell you that in the game intro, because they want to get you addicted.

Orisinal.com may be all sunshine and lollipops on the surface, but they are evil (in a very pro-fun way, of course)!

At least I am relaxed and yawning, now...

Comments

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good at this one, I keep blowing bubbles in the wrong direction. :)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Heh... took me a while to figure everything out... For a long while, I never even got past three hundred points. And when I did, I didn't realize why I was getting my time extended...

Probably even harder if you're trying to do it left handed. Too bad you can't get the bees to fly in the opposite direction. ;-)

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

All those games are so obscenely cute. It's sickening.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, Bauns (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bauns.htm?) is pretty straight forward (no cutesy acid trips through Beatrix Potter, at least). It's kind of a third cousin twice removed from Tetris.

And then, there's AIM & FIRE (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g2/aim.htm), which is exactly what it sounds like (and no, it's not angels lighting candles, either).

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I was kidding! I meant it in a humourous tone. Sorry :p

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Z'okay. I thought you were probably kidding. But I was kinda foggy-headed, and I wasn't absolutely sure.

I do like Bauns, though; that was a sincere rec. I just haven't quite got the hang of it, yet.

And your statement did get to check out some of the other games I hadn't bothered looking at before. I'm going to have to spend more time checking out The Truth is Up There (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g2/truth.htm). That one looks like it might be a potential geek-out game.