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All-time Best GamesListing of the top 1,000 games (all types) reviewed here on JIG, and rated by you, the JIG community (ordered by ranking):
Nov 2008
IncrediBots is a brand new physics-based webtoy from Grubby Games, creator of the Professor Fizzwizzle series. Much like Fantastic Contraption and Line Rider before it, IncrediBots gives you a handful of simple tools and sets you free to explore your creative impulses. Draw shapes, connect them with joints, and tweak their basic properties to create living, moving, and functioning 'bots that can perform any task. You can even make movies, complete with text, than can be shared with the IncrediBots community.
Jan 2008
Cursor*10 is a simple-looking puzzle game just released by Nekogames. You are a cursor in a tower trying to reach the top. Each of your ten lives is time-limited, and when one ends the next begins on the bottom floor. But you're not alone. As you start the next life your previous actions are replayed in real-time, creating a fun "cooperate with yourself" atmosphere.
Jun 2006
Dice Wars is a unique new turn-based strategy game from Japan. Using nothing but dice and a randomly generated territory map made of hexagons, the game is similar in gameplay to that of the board game, Risk, though much simpler and quicker to play. The objective is to conquer all territories and eliminate all your opponents by attacking them with dice.
Mar 2006
A masters in fine arts thesis project created by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark of the University of Southern California, flOw is a mesmerizing game of primordial life, evolution and survival. Dive deep into the wild blue to seek out and consume other organisms on your path to simple cell nirvana.
Sep 2009
Man-eating plants! Skeletons! Giant spiders! Falling boulders! What do these things have in common? They're all very, very deadly. And they, along with a host of other unpleasantness hungry for your demise, are waiting for you in Spelunky, an incredibly addictive roguelike platformer from Derek Yu. Explore, descend, discover... just remember to watch your back and keep one hand on your whip!
Jul 2010
There's something strange about Alicia and Victor's new apartment. And maybe something stranger about their new landlord. This first installment in a new point-and-click adventure series from Anders Gustafsson combines a unique look with a surreal story to whet your appetite for the upcoming chapters.
May 2011
Terraria, a new action/adventure/creativity game from Re-Logic, is perfect for a sand emperor like myself. It offers the thrill of discovery mixed with the chance to meticulously construct your own little village, city or empire. And before you think it: yes, it's a lot like Minecraft, only in 2D!
Dec 2006
Winterbells is a very simple wintertime game with the same gorgeous art and music found in all of Ferry's games on Orisinal. In Winterbells you control a snow-white rabbit who hops onto falling bells as they drift down from the night sky. Use the mouse to move the bunny left and right and time your jumps to keep moving upwards. The longer you stay hopping the higher your score.
Jun 2007
Ha55ii, creator of the previously reviewed Liquid Webtoy, has put forth another addictive webtoy: Powder Game. It bears a similarity in essence to the Falling Sand games, but takes it a step further with the introduction of wind and air pressure.
Aug 2011
A great Calamity rocks the world, wiping out all of civlization in an instant and leaving behind only a handful of floating islands in a vast void. As the Kid, along with your ever-present Narrator as a guide, search the remnants of the world for something that might rebuild it, uncovering the truth about the Calamity (and human nature) as you do. Featuring stunning visuals, an engrossing story related in a unique, immersive fashion, and fast-paced combat with upgradeable weapons, Bastion is a top-notch indie action RPG players looking for another realm and a good story will definitely want to investigate.
Mar 2010
What's in a dream? April Ryan, a struggling art student, doesn't think there's much to the strange nightmares she's having. But she's wrong. A classic point-and-click adventure of epic proportions, The Longest Journey is the story of two worlds thrown out of balance. Featuring stellar dialogue, memorable characters, a haunting soundtrack and rich environments, this is a fantastic adventure that shows other titles in the genre how to do it right.
Jul 2006
Sand Sand Sand is another entry in the Falling Sand games from Dofi-Blog. This installment incorporates some of the best elements of World of Sand and Hell of Sand into one, allowing you to play with a variety of elements in even more ways than before.
Dec 2011
New to the iPad world is the tower defense game we all love to love, Kingdom Rush HD from Ironhide Games, a port of Kingdom Rush for browsers released not too long ago. The team had a bit of a problem when an unauthorized clone appeared on the iTunes App Store weeks before release. The knockoff was spotted and eventually removed (whew), leaving space for this excellent port of an already excellent game to wow and surprise gamers in the iOS device realm!
Aug 2007
Bloons Tower Defense takes the Bloons concept—popping balloons, preferably with monkeys involved—and spins it in a new and intriguing direction. It's your standard tower defense game but with monkeys popping balloons with darts and various other sharp instruments. It's a flawed but engaging title that is sure to please die-hard Bloons fans.
Dec 2007
Free Rider 2 is a sequel that continues the more interactive spin on the Line Rider formula. Using a large tool set you can sculpt, edit and decorate the environment any way you choose. When you're done, take to the arrow keys and drive your rider through the stage. It's webtoy-meets-level-editor kind of experience, and it's even better than the original.
Jun 2006
Gamma Bros. is a deliciously slow-paced old-school space shooter created by PixelJam. It's written in flash and offers both an online version and downloadable files for the Mac and Windows. Although simple in looks and design, Gamma Bros. gives the illusion of a massive game world interspersed with moments of action and quiet space floating.
Jan 2006
"Gorgeous" is the only word to describe the award-winning Dofus, a feast of sight and sound in the form of a Flash-based MMORPG created by the folks at Ankama Games. The art and music of Dofus follow in the finest traditions of anime, making the game something of a cross between WoW and Pokemon (with a dash of tongue-in-cheek humor thrown in for good measure).
Jan 2011
The classic point-and-click game Myst is still alive and well, living on over a dozen gaming platforms (including the iPhone) with a number of sequels and a few remakes, all going strong. Even decades after its original release, Myst is still a force to be reckoned with.
Jul 2010
Originally released in Japan back in 2007, Recettear is the story of an item shop, a girl, and a fairy. Recette's father took out a loan and then skipped town, leaving her to pay off the debt. Soon, she meets Tear, a fairy who is as persistent as she is... well, persistent. She teaches Recette to run an item shop out of her house, purchasing stock for adventurers who head out into the world to slay monsters. Buy and sell swords, shields, food products and more, haggling with each customer and placing items in ideal locations to attract business.
Dec 2009
It's a blast from the past in this remake of and tribute to the original M.U.L.E., one of the great pioneers of multiplayer gaming. Stake your claim on an alien world with three friends and make the best of your time and resources to come out on top at the end of the game. Just remember to keep an eye out for the wampus.
Jul 2009
It's word game meets RPG in the excellent release from PopCap, Bookworm Adventures Volume 2! Mother Goose leaps from the pages of her book when the Big Bad Wolf comes a-knockin', and our bespectacled hero Lex is the only one who can help. Spell words to damage each enemy as you work your way through 30 chapters, gaining levels and earning unique trophies along the way. It's everything the original Bookworm Adventures was with a little extra oomph.
Oct 2010
Bioware's classic single and multiplayer experience finally goes DRM free. Is it worth your time after eight years? Absolutely. This computer adaptation of classic Dungeons and Dragons fantasy roleplaying not only features three robust campaigns, it also allows you to play a massive trove of community content completely free... or create your own. Explore new realms, create great heroes or villains... and maybe take a buddy along with you. Just remember to shout dibs on loot.
May 2006
Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle/building game for Windows. Your job is to create structures to safely guide a rolled-up Armadillo to the goal. Assemble materials such as sheets of metal, ropes, cloth, elastic and more to create a path across the stage. The physics in Armadillo Run are remarkably accurate, making building (and destroying) things far more entertaining than it should be.
Oct 2009
Eufloria, formerly known as Dyson, is a real-time strategy game built around the concepts of simplicity, ambience, and gentle pacing. It plays like an evolved version of Risk or Galcon, where sheer numbers and a good strategy are all you need to dominate. Eufloria isn't about warriors battling over blood-soaked soil. It's a slow, organic game that uses plants as its inspiration, challenging you to expand a seedling empire one asteroid at a time.
Jan 2009
PrismaPix is a logic puzzle game that uses elements of Minesweeper and Conceptis Puzzles' Fill-a-Pix to create a new kind of experience that's both challenging and intriguing at the same time. Use clues to fill in spaces on the grid, switching between different layers (colors" to complete the entire image.
Jun 2011
Those of us adept at folding space-time (with or without the use of spice) are very familiar with the concept of moving chunks of the universe around so we can easily step from one area to another. For everyone else, there's Continuity 2: The Continuation, a sequel to the familiar Flash puzzle game Continuity. Combining a little bit of 2D platforming and a lot of sliding puzzle logic, Continuity 2 is a unique and challenging experience made better by the battery of almost 50 new levels packed into the iPhone's tiny little screen. It's all the space-time folding you could ever want, without the blue-in-blue eyes to show for it!
Mar 2009
Hex Empire is a casual turn-based strategy war game, occupying a comfortable spot between the simplicity of Risk and the number crunching of the Avalon Hill-style board games that inspired the whole soldiers-on-hexagons thing. It lets you jump right into battle without much fuss, and offers enough tactical depth to be addictive even after several wars have ended. A bit of a treat, really.
Nov 2013
Set years after the game that won the community's vote for 2011 RPG of the Year, this turn-based RPG starts off with a literal bang as our dragon-boy hero falls from the sky like a meteorite on a quest to find an Oracle. But that's just the tip of the iceberg when he falls in with a certain mercenary group! With animated cutscenes, voice acting, and likable characters, this game offers a lot and is definitely worth a look.
Dec 2008
John Cooney, author of TBA, TBA2, Grid16, and the Ball Revamped series, has unveiled his latest epic adventure. Along with timeless, classic platforming gameplay, Achievement Unlocked offers you the opportunity to earn no less than One. Hundred. Achievements. Holy bat farts on a bus.
Sep 2010
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 has taken such a huge jump up from the first two games that it seems like a whole new series. Where the previous RPGs focused almost entirely on the turnbased "battle" portion of the title, kupo707's latest effort remembers the "epic" part--provided you're okay with a definition of epic that includes kitten slaying, shark battering rams, cow outfits, the shoop-da-woop face, and copious amounts of Comic Sans.
Dec 2006
As a casual gamer, you have certainly come across titles that fall into the defend-your-castle category. BowMaster Prelude fits that description as well, but certain aspects elevate it above other candidates, such as earning experience points and gold to recruit an army, the ability to upgrade and buy different arrows, and a unique feature that lets the hero leave the castle.
Apr 2007
If you haven't played Feed the Head lately, there are new features to explore! It represents a piece of interactive entertainment of a type we don't often see anymore. There is perhaps no goal, no win condition. It's just plain fun to play. An enjoyable little webtoy for you to discover on your own terms. Spend a couple minutes or an hour. Lose yourself. Feed your head. Escape.
Jan 2008
The first Flash Element Tower Defense was a kind of revolution. It single- handedly brought tower defense games out of the realm of Warcraft mods and into the world of free online gaming, kick-starting a new genre practically overnight. Now that Dave has teamed with Paul Preece to create Novel Concepts, he has built Flash Element TD 2 according to the Casual Collective aesthetic — the audio/visual style pioneered by Desktop Tower Defense and perpetuated by Buggle. In other words, it's totally cute.
Oct 2008
A clever world domination simulator, in the form of a humble real-time strategy game, in which you can test your schemes and stratagems without the nagging twinge of guilt that comes with executing legions of henchmen. The game has some of the highest production values you're likely to find in a Flash game, with some decent animation, a healthy dose of humor and a startling amount of high-quality voice acting.
Jan 2009
Not satisfied simply to have won second place in our last competition, game designer Lars Doucet has been busy reworking, researching, and refining his entry, the strategic defense game Super Energy Apocalypse. We are proud to announce that the full-fledged game has now been released!
Apr 2014
Danger lurks around every corner, literally, in this deadly point-and-click escape game from Kotorinosu. If you want to find a way out, you'll have to search everywhere and solve puzzles, all while avoiding being eaten, exploded, gassed, dropped...
Dec 2007
The Caverns of Hammerfest, by French developer Motion Twin, is an expertly crafted love letter to classic arcade platformers like Bubble Bobble and Snow Bros. If you've ever wondered how the intensity and the heartbreak of those old arcade cabinets could be translated into online gaming, look no further.
Nov 2006
While Jayisgames is primarily about casual gameplay, many visitors to the site are Flash developers or, like me, just casual gamers who enjoy a good work of Flash now and again. Well, I'm here to say that a sequel to the Animator vs. Animation cartoon has been released over at Atom Films, and this time... it's personal.
May 2007
ElectroCity is fun little Flash game intended "to spark an interest and lay an unbiased foundation for later learning" about the issues involved in power generation, cost, and environmental impact. It is obviously a very simplistic look at those issues, intended to give a broad overview and invite further research on the part of the player. It's also not a bad little town sim game to boot.
Mar 2010
Enter into the experience of visualizing visualizing (whoa, meta!) in the CGDC7 award-winning interactive fiction title Dual Transform by Andrew Plotkin. Take on the role of a virtual engineer, of sorts, feeling the pressure of really making this project something to remember... something that really feels real.
Apr 2012
In this exciting installment of the Choice series by Choice of Games you're plunged into a world on the brink of destruction. Nuclear missiles? Widespread famine? Nope, it's the age old killer: Zombies! Pick your course of survival in this gripping narrative that propels you toward what could be your salvation or your untimely demise!
Dec 2011
Your favourite demolition crew is at it again, with different tools to tackle the craziest jobs! After New York and Tokyo, they've moved on to Moscow, and if you think blasting is easy, this physics puzzle with make you think again. Packed with Nitrome's signature style and charm, as well as an out-of-this-world surprise or two, this is a fantastic seasonal installment to a fan-favourite series with a lot of challenge.
Nov 2009
Delicious Emily's Holiday Season is a fantastic time management game from Zylom Game Studio. Much like the often-forgotten Miss Management, this game plays like a TV sitcom, complete with incidental music and cheesy sense of humor! The variety of gameplay is a welcome addition to the genre, and unlike most games that make the same attempt, it doesn't come across as forced innovation.
Jun 2009
Time Gentlemen, Please!, a direct sequel to Zombie Cow's Ben There, Dan That, is a playground for just about every type of humor that is likely to get you ousted from civil society. It's old-school adventuring at its best and manages to both parody and canonize classic Lucasarts games while providing a stiff set of puzzles to solve.
Sep 2005
Urban Dead is a fantastic and superbly original MMOG that was created by Kevan Davis. To put it simply: it is a text-based zombie survival game that runs in any browser. Even if this sort of game isn't usually your thing, I'd thoroughly encourage you to give it a go, as it's an extremely original and absorbing experience.
Aug 2004
From Homestar Runner comes this hilariously funny game that pokes fun at itself and the text-based adventures and 8-bit graphics of years gone by. Boasting "lush 16-color landscapes," this game puts you in the shoes of a short-panted peasant named Rather Dashing who sets out on a quest of revenge against Trogdor the Burninator. A fun and quirky classic.
Apr 2007
Makibishi Comic is an atmospheric, quirky, and well-drawn point-and-click flash created to promote the Japanese studio... Makibishi! You play the role of Asashin who is searching for five ninjas hidden across five different environments. Each stage is a new and creative area with multiple puzzles and scenes to experience. Think Blue Suburbia meets Hapland and you're ready to roll.
Oct 2006
A Break in the Road is a unique game that puts you in the role of a DJ recording sounds throughout the city to mix into a one minute song. An amazingly well-produced cut scene, complete with top-notch voice acting talent, introduces the back story and drops you right into it.
Dec 2005
The Dofi-Blog sand and zombie toys are making their way around the Web like a ??? explosion (inside joke), and for good reason: they are quite literally sand box games that allow for a seemingly infinite variety of creative play. And now the author, d_of_i, has released another sand world, Hell of Sand, which appears to be a combination of the previously reviewed War of the Hell and World of Sand.
Jun 2010
Blue Lacuna is one of those rare experiences that turns your set of assumptions about a medium on its head. Like Memento or The Usual Suspects or The Outsider, Aaron Reed's game transcends its medium to become more than the sum of its parts, an artwork that leaves a measurable change in the player. You might finish this game, but it may never leave you alone.
Jun 2012
On the surface, it's easy to put Thomas Was Alone in the puzzle platform genre, citing games like The Lost Vikings when you discuss the gameplay mechanics and mentioning VVVVVV as another possible source of lo-fi indie inspiration. But after you've spent some time with the game, you suddenly realize it's much more than just a platformer. Thomas Was Alone is an interactive, character-driven puzzle experience with a beautiful audio visual presentation and gameplay controls/physics that were no doubt fine-tuned with fastidious precision.
Mar 2011
The first time I saw my velociraptor avatar trying desperately to outrun the scary wall of doom, I was completely sold. Three years have passed since the release of that Pixeljam racing platformer, and I find myself returning to its charms again and again. However, with time comes change, modification, upgrading, evolution. So is the potent rationale for the release of Dino Run: SE... And from what I've seen so far, it won't be going extinct from my hard drive any time soon.
Apr 2006
Warning Forever is a downloadable 2D shooter written by Hikoza Ohkubo of Hikware software. You pilot a tiny green ship with a single versatile weapon and must face off against a constant stream of bosses. No stages, no obstacles, no power-ups, just epic fights with massive enemy ships. And the surprising thing is they learn from your patterns and fight back. Yikes.
Oct 2013
Wonderland Adventures: Planet of the Z-Bots marks the third in the main series of puzzle adventure games from developer Midnight Synergy. It arrives several years after the previous installment, Mysteries of Fire Island, but because it's such a large and well-built game, it's an easy delay to forgive. Planet of the Z-Bots captures every bit of magic and charm from the other releases, only now there's a lot more of it!
Oct 2012
The first commercial release from indie developer cactus and his partner Dennis Wedin is a brutal and bloody orchestra from violence. Messages left on your answering machine seem to drive you to acts of mass carnage and unspeakable violence, but what's the reason behind it all? Unlock new masks to hide your identity with special abilities, deal damage with tons of unlockable weapons, and master the game's reflex-driven combat to waltz your way through sprawling, challenging missions as you get closer to the truth.
Nov 2007
Twilight Heroes is a free RPG that recently announced its open beta. Taking place in the corrupt and rather seedy Twilight City, you get the opportunity to take back its night by tossing around hoodlums in the act, earning money, and seeing how long you can keep at it before fatigue causes you to run out of turns, five minutes of game time making one turn.
Jan 2012
A crazy, multiplayer romp through a visually lush game featuring three moderately-mad fantasy characters with their own unique abilities? Show us where to sign and we'll be there! Actually, now that you mention it, Trine 2 happens to be all of the things described above, plus a whole lot more. It's got action, it's got physics puzzles, it's got both single- and online multiplayer modes, and it's got a sense of humor that will probably remind you of Magicka. It's a modern-day version of The Lost Vikings, and any gamer will be proud to experience the world Trine 2 has to offer!
Nov 2011
The latest in the Creeper World series of real-time strategy games, Creeper World: Evermore. With the same controls as the popular Creeper World: User Space, Evermore is easy to pick up and get to playing right away. The addition of a survival mode (in which you play out to Odin City's doom) makes this game really stand out and is sure to give you hours of fun!
Sep 2005
A remarkably rich and highly detailed Shockwave game created for Lego by the folks at gameLab. This turn-based strategy game is a triple-A quality production set in a stunning high-tech universe. The developers have expertly combined story elements with engaging gameplay to create an extraordinary, satisfying and immersing experience.
Feb 2008
Here's a game that needs no introduction around here, the next game in the amazing and wonderful Grow series from Eyezmaze has just released today. Grow Nano Vol. 3 has the same familiar gameplay, graphics, animation and soundtrack as the others, and it is sure to put a smile on your face.
Jan 2008
It's here. The next installment in one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Flash point-and-click adventure series ever created. Submachine 5: The Root promises to take us to the very first (historically speaking) built submachine structure. At least as we know it.
Mar 2008
Step into another surreal world created by Amanita Design (Samorost). With eight totally separate environments, Questionaut feels like a cohesive whole. It's like stepping into a story book and becoming one of its characters. And thanks to Questionaut's powerful imagery, it feels like a living universe that continues to exist even after you've shut down your browser. Just delightful.
Dec 2010
Factory Balls Christmas Edition has all of the fun and challenge of the regular series combined with a heartwarming and less stressful touch of the holiday season. In it you'll find Santa hats, belts, suspenders, earmuffs, and bobble hats (along with several colors of paint) to recreate various decorations on a Christmas tree. And for those who are not celebrating this particular holiday, it's still a fantastic, challenging, and amusing game to play
Jun 2010
Mamono Sweeper is very similar to its ancient ancestor with some key differences. The first is that instead of bombs concealed behind anonymous tiles, you're sweeping for monsters. And you can't just avoid them, eventually you're going to have to reveal and kill all of the monsters on the board if you want to win. Slay monsters, go up in levels, and relive the addiction that was once minesweeper in this reboot of one of the most well known classic casual games.
Jan 2010
It is almost impossible to describe the joy created by wandering in the strange, surreal universe that Enu (Hanamushi) has created in Flower Insect. The synthesis of art, animation, game, and experience is nearly flawless, and will leave the casual gamer breathless as they wander deeper and deeper into the morass. Stunning beyond all belief, this is not necessarily a game to play all in one go. Rather, the Hanamushi game is something to consume in small bites, lest you find yourself deep in the abyss that is the imagination of an extremely talented individual.
Apr 2008
Bow Street Runner is a mystery adventure series commissioned by Channel 4 (UK). Set in London's Covent Garden in the 1750s, crime in the city has risen to such a level that local magistrates were forced to take action. The Bow Street Runners were born, created to instill order in the increasingly crime-ridden city. It's a dark and historically accurate journey through old London, presented with live actors, voice narration and full motion video for an impressive cinematic experience.
Apr 2006
Travian is a browser-based, massively multiplayer, quasi-real-time strategy game, developed and maintained by a German team dedicated to its upkeep. The goal is to build up economic and military power through the development of land and construction of buildings and armies.
Dec 2008
In Cortex Command, you assume the role of a disembodied brain (floating in a jar, actually) that's able to network with—and telepathically control—a variety of machines and soldiers. The basic premise is that you're setting up shop on hostile alien worlds to mine for resources, while your enemy is doing the same. Superficially, it sounds more like a real-time strategy game than a turn-based warfare game, which is one of the main reasons Cortex Command has so much potential; it's both.
Jan 2011
The creator of The Codex of Alchemical Engineering and Bureau of Steam Engineering (not to mention the grandaddy of Minecraft, Infiniminer) is back with a full-fledged indie game ready to provide a serious logic puzzle challenge. SpaceChem is anything but simple, anything but easy, and one of the most satisfying puzzle games released. If you can solve its challenges, that is. SpaceChem is a game you'll spend a few minutes learning but weeks trying to master, and its 50+ levels are more than enough to strain your poor brain matter more than it's been strained in quite some time.
Feb 2012
Do you love birds? Like... LOVE birds? Even if you don't, you definitely need to make a point of checking out this remarkably original visual novel from PigeoNation Inc. As the only human girl attending a school populated otherwise solely by birds, you have a hard time fitting it. But persevere and you may just find more than you expect. Clever, funny, strange, and shocking, Hatoful Boyfriend needs to be seen to be believed, and played all the way to the very last ending to truly appreciate. You won't regret it.
Jun 2004
From Popcap comes this cute, strange and addictive, action strategy Java game called Insaniquarium. Originally developed by Flying Bear Entertainment, Insaniquarium won the Innovation in Game Design award at the 2002 Independent Games Festival (IGF).
Dec 2009
All of mankind vanishes from the universe in an instant... except for one person. Saira, a photographer, has spent years alone, trying to figure out what happened that day. Now, she's very close to discovering what happened, and finally tracking down who might be the only other person left alive. Nifflas's newest puzzle-platformer is a beautiful journey of exploration and discovery, where the few gameplay hiccups are only minor bumps in a long road.
Aug 2004
iSketch is an online multiplayer Shockwave game similar to the drawing game Pictionary, and it works remarkably well on the Web. Players take turns drawing a word assigned by the game. When it's your turn, a basic and simple-to-use drawing interface appears with which to begin drawing. It's very well designed and loads of fun, though it can be terribly addictive so beware.
Feb 2009
The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge is an unconventional point-and-click narrative adventure by Jonas Kyratzes, the same developer who brought us Infinite Ocean and Museum of Broken Memories. It's not actually a game, per se, so much as a trans-dimensional portal or a window. Above all else, this game is a story. A cute, endearing, wonderful story that gradually peels back its soft-edged veneer to reveal something that is indeed a little sinister, thrusting the player from humor into apprehension into sadness.
Mar 2007
Something Amiss is an online adventure game created by Tucker Bowen to promote his book of the same name. It has a distinctly classic Lucas Arts adventure game flair with surprisingly good visuals and plenty of mystery surrounding the main character, Alice.
Nov 2013
In most roguelikes, grinding levels is the answer, but in Hopoo Games' brutally difficult action game, the longer you wait, the harder things get. When your cargo ship crashes on a hostile alien planet, you're left with no choice but to fight your way through the local wildlife and massive monsters, unlocking new characters and items along the way, if you want to survive.
Feb 2010
All it takes is one stranger on the road on one dark night to unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that could change the world. Choose your party members from nine distinct personalities and set off on a side-scrolling free RPG adventure through lush environments full of strange characters. Featuring nine chapters, a complex battle scheme, and more, it's a stunning linear adventure that will delight fans of the genre.
Jun 2013
Crazy Machines Golden Gears is a new addition to the Crazy Machines series of physics building/puzzle games. The franchise has made the leap from downloadable desktop game to the mobile world, bringing with it all the challenge, creativity and, well, crazy machines you can imagine. If Rube Goldberg only knew the kind of legacy he would leave to the casual gaming world.
Nov 2012
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a simulation and time management game from Vertigo Games, creator of the similarly spectacular The Oil Blue. If you see a restaurant game and immediately think "casual diversion", let Cook, Serve, Delicious! change your mind. This isn't a light and simple easy to win time management game. It's a full-on simulation that makes you work for your money, pushes you to play faster than you thought possible, and teaches you to strategically plan menus to maximize income without turning the ever-picky customer base away. It's not an easy game to excel at, but it's an easy game to get hooked on, and the challenge of building and running your own restaurant from front to back is going to captivate you for weeks on end.
Aug 2009
In Burger Shop 2, you are once again tasked with combining ingredients coming from an ever-producing food machine to serve the constant stream of customers coming into the restaurant. In a nice twist on the time management genre, you don't control an actual character, so your speed is limited only by how good you are at clicking.
Jun 2008
Think of the classic Space Invaders mixed with a dash of Galaga and you'd have a pretty good understanding of what Titan Attacks! is all about. The classic "aliens descending from above" scenario is showcased with a stylish, blocky pixel motif featuring a richer move-and-shoot routine than classic predecessors. Titan Attacks! took the golden age concept and loaded it with a variety of new action elements and ship upgrades.
Aug 2010
What do you do when you find yourself the owner of a big empty valley? Well, you could call in a bunch of real estate developers, I suppose, and file all the necessary paperwork to have the land appropriately zoned before calling in all the inspectors for wiring and so forth... OR you could just hire a bunch of teeny-tiny people to do it for you! In this adorable follow-up to Grow Island from Eyezmaze, puzzle out the correct order of things to make your valley grow and thrive as big as possible.
Jun 2009
Another brilliant room escape game from Neutral, the authors of the amazing Vision. Lights features inventive tough-but-fair puzzles, gorgeous rendered scenes, and enough charm to drown a dozen rubber duckies.
Sep 2006
You've managed to make it to lunchtime. It's been a rough day but you are free for an hour and you'd love to spend it laying the smack down on some monsters RPG-style. However, it's going to be hard to install World of Warcraft on your puny work PC, and besides, you simply don't have time. What do you do? Fire up a game of DragonFable.
Jun 2013
Here is a full scale escape-the-room adventure made (near) perfect by Kotorinosu's skillful design. Inexplicably locked inside these space age surroundings, with no narrative or changing cursor to guide you, you're left to your observational skills and ability to make connections between clues, using objects (repeatedly) to break through multiple locks until you are free. It's lengthy enough and challenging enough to hold you captive for most the afternoon, both in frustration and delight.
Apr 2009
Acting as a prequel to the original, Gemcraft Zero tells the story of a wizard who has become so entangled in his search for the fabled Gem of Eternity that his colleagues have cast him out. Any fan of tower defense games shouldn't miss this one, but even those who may not normally be interested in them should at least give it a try.
Aug 2007
The Animator vs. Animation Game takes the fun, desktop battlefield antics of the Animator vs. Animation episodes and turns it into a fully interactive fighting game! Control the animator or stickman animation and wage war against your opponent, grabbing common drawing tools and turning them into deadly weapons.
Oct 2009
Have you been looking for a way to replay (or perhaps play for the first time) the banner game that Rob Allen created for us a couple years ago? When we updated the site layout moving to a larger, wider format, we temporarily lost the ability to swap stylesheets. But now it's back! Just click the image above to switch the stylesheet over to the one that includes the banner game. Click it again to switch it back.
Feb 2009
A short demo of a larger point-and-click adventure to be released in April, this is the latest by Gateway series creator Anders Gustafsson. It uses similar play mechanics to his previous games, and yet the graphical engine looks like it has received a complete makeover. A compelling teaser for the beautiful new world of adventure that Gustafsson has in store for us.
Jan 2009
Casual sim/strategy fans (and anyone who enjoyed Virtual Villagers or My Tribe) take note: Westward III: Gold Rush has arrived! Following last spring's release of Westward II: Heroes of the Frontier, the third installment in the series continues the new 3D visual style and basic premise introduced in the second game. Take control of three new heroes as you collect resources, construct farms, saloons, granaries and more to keep your settlers happy and healthy.
Feb 2014
After bursting out of a coffin, you find yourself lost and disoriented in a strange city, and when night falls things get even stranger. The third chapter of the popular point-and-click horror adventure series provides some of the best atmosphere around in an otherworldly and supremely creepy setting that provides big scares without a lot of gore.
Mar 2006
Remember the amazing, jaw-dropping, Shockwave 3D first person shooter (FPS) demo that surfaced last year just prior to GDC? The game was called Phosphor Alpha and it was created by Nick Kang of Rasterwerks. Well, he's done it again: Phosphor Beta 1 kicks the action into high gear by including multiplayer deathmatch functionality, with additional mods being added regularly.
Jul 2008
Ruins of Pantheon, the fifth and latest chapter of the Jinja Series, Aztec's ongoing, epic point-and-click saga, has just been released. Take one part Indiana Jones, mixing in a few heaping spoonfuls of mysterious alien technology. Add a nice dash of interstellar warfare, a sprinkling of impending doom, and plunk it all down into a tranquil, traditionally Japanese setting. Voila!
Jan 2006
To be filed under the "simple but highly addictive" category is this latest game by Max Abernethy of flecko.net. Simplistic but challenging is Cubefield, a strangely beautiful dodge-the-obstacles type of game. The author of this 3D Flash game even offers an explanation of the technology behind it for those interested.
Mar 2007
Peggle is the latest arcade action game from PopCap, and currently available as a download for Windows or Mac. Think of a pachinko machine and an upside-down breakout game and you will be close to the unique and simple gameplay found in Peggle. It is a classic casual game: simple to understand, easy to pick-up and play, and difficult to master. Find yourself the nearest PC and download it now.
Pure Hidden is designed to be a hidden object game unlike any other. There is no story, no mystery to solve, no thinly-veiled plot designed to accommodate the endless locating of things that have nothing to do with the story, much less the surroundings. Pure Hidden takes a very zen-like approach to the hidden object genre. The games exist to be played, not to serve any external plot or characters. It makes the entire process of playing a relaxing, soothing experience.
Aug 2008
Floating Islands Game is a puzzle title, created by Hempuli, that plays a lot like Rob Allen's Hapland series with a distinct Lemmings slant to it. In each level you must guide the main character through the stage, collecting all of the gold stars before reaching the flag at the end. You can only affect his movements indirectly, however, by clicking and changing different parts of the environment at just the right time.
Feb 2007
Quadradius is an online, multiplayer, turn-based Flash game that takes the skeleton of the board game checkers, and pumps it up with a massive list of power-ups and new strategies that turns the game into an addictive and very compelling new concept. In fact, calling it checkers is an oversimplification that does not do it any justice.
Apr 2007
Welcome to Tonypa's school of game design. Start with a very simple gameplay idea; it doesn't have to be original, but the idea has to be simple enough for anyone to understand immediately. Include a few attractive graphics in a minimalist style of your own design. Add a pleasing and relaxing soundtrack. Toss everything in a box and flip it upside down. Voilà. Brand new game all your own.
Oct 2004
Tontie is a remarkably accessible and addictive action game from On of Eyezmaze. This now classic Web game uses the numeric keypad for hammering enemies whack-a-mole style as they pop-up on the grid. Some enemies require more than one hit, others require hits with precision timing. Numerous power-ups and special features give its gameplay surprising depth.


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When starting a game, often the player starts out with an extremely powerful party, character, weapon or ability, which can easily slaughter anything it comes across, playing through a short battle or dungeon. The player is in no real danger of losing at this point, but this incredible power never lasts long. Once the introductory segment is complete, the player switches to the real party, usually at level 1 with basic starter gear. The primary purpose of this trope is to get a player into a game and teach them the rules without overwhelming them with dangerous enemies early on. This can also give them a preview of the powers and skills they'll be acquiring later in the game. Common marketing wisdom is that you have to sell your game on the players in the first ten minutes, or you risk them not sticking around to get to the really good parts - hence A Taste Of Power to draw a player in. Another advantage to A Taste of Power is that the player gets to do something and have some fun while the scene is set and the story established, instead of sitting through a non-interactive opening cutscene or simply wandering around the First Town talking to people and trying to figure out what to do. Frequently used in RTS games to allow the player to be given a tutorial of all the game elements in one sitting. This is sometimes done by means of a Crutch Character, who leaves, is killed, or is depowered after the segment is over, weakening your fighting strength. It frequently ends with a Warmup Boss. If some programming oversight allows you to retain some of this power, such as by removing the ridiculously powerful equipment from a temporary character, the result may make the game incredibly easy. Also known as "Abilitease" on the Giant Bomb wiki. In other media such as film and literature, the Taste Of Power is often used to show the future potential of a protagonist, or to justify a character's extreme future efforts in developing themselves. As a typical example, a character may have A Taste Of Power when first using magic in order that they will know magic exists and they have any talents necessary to perform it at the highest level, this justifying the character going on to spend months or years studying it and leaving the reader trusting that the results will be spectacular. Compare Bag of Spilling, where a player character's hard-won power is somehow lost between the end of one game and the beginning of its sequel. If you wind up having to fight the Crutch Character later, you've been walking in Villain Shoes. May coincide with And Now for Someone Completely Different. The inversion is Eleventh Hour Superpower, where you get special abilities at the end of the game. Also contrast Second Hour Superpower, where the player character starts generically and gets his/her defining ability only partway through. May be Purposefully Overpowered.
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CIT Program 2014
Would you love to help teach kids about nature? Are you between the ages of 15 and 18? If so, you have an incredible opportunity to join our education team and go through our Counselor-in-Training (C.I.T.) program and be a camp counselor this summer!
Audubon Society of Portland's CIT program
Would you love to help teach kids about nature? Are you between the ages of 15 and 18? If so, you have an incredible opportunity to join our education team and go through our Counselor-in-Training (C.I.T.) program and be a camp counselor this summer! As a counselor, you will work with the camp instructors to give kids a great camp experience.
Learn valuable skills that can help you begin a career in the field of environmental education. After this 4-day training, from June 16-19, 2014 you will be able to sign up as a counselor for at least three weeks this summer. Gain valuable skills in the art of tracking, birding and wilderness awareness. Learn all the tricks of the environmental education trade including storytelling, camp songs and fun games. Our training will include two nights (Tuesday and Wednesday) at Marmot Cabin to further develop your skills. Cost for this week long training includes transportation, food, lodging and professional instruction. Current Adult and Child CPR certification is required. Application deadline is May 6, 2014.
Important!!! We ask for a three week commitment from all of our counselors so that you have a chance to really develop your skills and help with a variety of camps. There are now two levels of counselor: junior and senior. Junior counselors are in their first 2 years of being a counselor, while senior counselors have completed two years of camp counseling. Junior counselors will be volunteers, while senior counselors will be paid a stipend of $50 per week worked.
The intern positions will be reserved for those who have completed at least one year of college. Please see the Audubon Society of Portland Employment page for details.
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Q: Will there be a "Season" this year?November 22, 2010
A: Yes!
There will certainly be an increase in activity for the classic reasons. When the cold wind blows in New York, Boston, etc. people start thinking how nice it would be to own a sun baked piece of Miami Beach real estate. Maybe even something on the ocean or the bay. This is also a town with more than it's fair share of glamour which attracts Holiday visitors who enjoy looking at real estate.
Will they actually buy? Brokers traditionally complain that they are overworked on all the holidays often "chasing rainbows". I believe we will see more high end (1M+) sales this season and the return of foreign buyers especially Italians and Brazilians. Lower end buyers may settle by waiting for another wave of foreclosures or be unable to get financing, but I predict some very large sales this season. Thanks to our new Miami Heat players we had two wonderful sales on Miami Beach during October, one for $10.6 and the other for $12.3M.
I have already gotten quite a few calls from qualified buyers who are planning to visit Miami Beach sometime during the season to look for real estate.
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Jury selection is set to begin in Fort Worth today in the murder retrial of Justin Green.
35 year old man found shot to death in the parking lot of the Dew Drop Inn.
A former Stephens County doctor is killed in a shooting outside a Jewish community center in Kansas.
Two people are dead after an apparent break-in and shooting this morning in Lawton
A trial date is set for one of the suspects accused of the fatal shooting of a Wichita Falls grocery store owner last year.
Rocky Buckley's family says Wichita County District Attorney's officials told them Wednesday that the grand jury chose not to indict the man who shot and killed Buckley.


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The Williston Atheists request to place a monument on a county courthouse forum that is home to a Ten Commandments monument was unanimously denied a second time by the Levy County Commission citing deficiencies in the group's amended application.
But this is not the end of the matter.
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Amateur radio club forming
A new amateur radio club is forming in Levy County – The Gator Amateur Society. Interested parties should go to www.w1gas.com for further information. The club will have monthly meetings and offer classes to prepare you for your first amateur radio license, as well as upgrade testing for those already licensed.
If you do not have internet access, please call 352-528-0992 for information.
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If you're going to have an RV resort, you need to have a swimming pool, too.
"It makes sense to me," said Levy County Commissioner John Meeks of Bronson (R-District 1) of a request by a Cedar Key RV park to build a 12-by-31-foot pool on the 10.17 acre facility.
Angler's Campground, formerly Rainbow Campground, on State Road 24 at Southwest Shiloh Road, made the request because the permit that allowed the RV resort's construction is a special exception in a C-2 commercial zoning.
The Cedar Key Chamber of Coommerce reports that a recent finacial request by Cedar Key School students for help with their junior prom has been met, thanks to area businesses.
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Whether you plant by the Farmer's Almanac or Rodale's Organic Gardening, many are planting gardens of flowers, fruits and vegetables now. Donna Thalacker and companions plant to a different drummer. She plants for pollinators at the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge headquarters each spring.
Artists, visitors and volunteers could not have asked for a more perfect weekend to celebrate the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival. A nearly full moon and clear skies on Friday night, along with starting set-up at 7pm on all of 2nd Street, made it much easier for artists to get their booths up and have a reasonable night's sleep before the big weekend. Sunny skies and light winds with temperatures reaching into the 80's greeted festival visitors both days.
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The property owners of a site east of Williston that was to host a Labor Day hip hop concert have reached a settlement with Levy County that would dismiss them from a preliminary injunction that halted the event.
The Levy County Commission sought and received the injunction on Sept. 2, the day before the event was to be held, after approving the action at an emergency meeting earlier in the day. The commission said the concert organizers had not applied for or received a permit under the county's music entertainment and festival ordinance.
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People came from as far as Inglis and Gainesville to attend a public meeting about deer management held at the Tommy Usher Center April 1.
Many said they came to find out about the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's plans and express their feelings based on what they learned at the meeting.
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Your View: Why isn't Obama calling himself unpatriotic?
I did not read the letter Robert Barnett (Your View, Dec. 6., "Obama won because he deserved re-election") was referring too, but he has his facts wrong. Under President Bush the job loss was 700,000 per month for a period of time. For a period time, President Obama has had comparable job losses.
Regarding Obama helping out the motor industry, he was really helping the UAW Union. If the motor industry had gone through bankruptcy like the air line industry did, they could have renegotiated their contract with the union and they would still have survived We have a two-party system so they have to negotiate what is happening to the country. President Obama is so self-opinionated he refuses to go along with the compromise made by the House, even though he himself suggested this last year.
Also regarding the debt ceiling, Obama stood up and stated the Bush was unpatriotic for raising the debt ceiling, if he believed that then, why does he not apply the same condemnation to himself. We should have been trying to live within our means. When the debt ceiling was last increased, he never tried to restrict spending so he is going to be unpatriotic again and ask the GOP to raise the debt ceiling once more.
In fact, he is the most arrogant president we have had. He wants to be able to raise the debt ceiling without going through Congress. He should remember he is a president not a dictator. Personally, I think we should go over the cliff and the debt ceiling should not be raised. Then Americans would have to stand up and solve the problems created by government.
Consider providing child permanent, stable home
Following on the heels of November, Adoption Awareness Month, is December, the month in which Americans open their hearts even wider to cherish and celebrate the importance of a loving family, a true gift from our Heavenly Father. It is so evident that God embraces the family structure.
However, there are many foster children today who live daily without the reality of a permanent home. That is not to say that these kids do not live in loving foster homes with caring foster parents. But those foster parents who do not wish to adopt provide temporary care, not permanent homes. Permanent, stable, "you can always depend on me," forever homes are the desire of most children's hearts. A permanent home says, "someone wants and loves me no matter what."
There are different ways to serve these young ones. First of all, if you or someone you know, married or single, is able to open heart and home to fulfill their wish for a loving, forever family, please contact the Guilford County Department of Social Services at 336-641-7771 and ask for the adoption case workers. Another good starting place is the information given on the Adopt US Kids/North Carolina website.
Second, whenever possible, make others aware of the extreme need for permanent homes for foster children.
Third, monetary donations are always needed to assist in the recruitment of adoptive homes.
Finally, consider becoming a Guardian ad Litem volunteer. Go to www.ncgal.org for information or call the High Point office at 336-822-6789. There are currently a record number of children in foster care and each of them deserves a representative voice. Would you speak for the foster children in one or more of these ways?


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Book your room at Cologne Marriott Hotel
Deluxe RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Deluxe RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Executive RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Studio, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Luxury Cologne hotel in Old Town, walk to Cologne Cathedral
Located in Old Town, this luxury hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Musical Dome, Cologne Cathedral, and Romano-Germanic Museum. City Hall and Alter Markt are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
Along with a health club, this hotel has a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a sauna, a steam room, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 365 soundproofed rooms feature WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, LCD TVs come with cable channels, and guests can also appreciate conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Cologne Marriott Hotel
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a health club, Cologne Marriott Hotel features a sauna and a steam room. The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
A 24-hour business center is on site at this 5-star property. Event facilities measuring 1938 square feet (174 square meters) include conference space. This luxury hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Cologne Marriott Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- Conference space
- Health club
- Number of meeting rooms - 18
- Bar/lounge
- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- 24-hour front desk
- Free Wi-Fi
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Total number of rooms - 365
- Number of floors - 6
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (feet) - 1938
- Conference space size (meters) - 174
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- 24-hour business center
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Steam room
- Television in lobby
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Soundproofed rooms
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 12,50 EUR per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Room Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Complimentary newspaper
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Soundproofed rooms
- Complimentary toiletries
- Room service (24 hours)
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Brasserie Fou - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
- Braille or raised signage
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
The city of Cologne imposes a culture tax (Kulturförderabgabe) of 5%. The amount is not included in the total price displayed. Business travelers may be exempt from this tax and need to contact the hotel for further information or ask the hotel at check-in. Guests can contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 1
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- A 5 percent city/local tax will be charged
- Breakfast fee: EUR 27 for adults and EUR 13.5 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 12,50 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): EUR 12,50 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 12,50 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: EUR 25 per day
- Pet fee: EUR 65 per room, per stay
- Deposit: EUR 50 per night
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A new 7,000-square-foot crematory and embalming facility is on track to become the next-door neighbor of a Mesa boys home.
Bunker Family Mortuary has submitted a preliminary application to the city to construct the facility behind its current funeral home at 3529 E. University Drive — next door to Prehab of Arizona's residential center for adolescent boys.
The new building would facilitate all embalming and cremation services for the company's five Valley funeral homes. Right now, most of the embalming is done at the East University Drive location. The cremation, however, occurs at an operation with only one retort, or furnace, on Apache Trail.
A larger centralized facility would be more personal for families, said Bryan Bunker, vice president and chief operating officer.
"Because of the way it's designed, it has a public portion of the building as well as a working part of the building where the embalming or the cremation would take place," Bunker said.
While some may squirm at such a proposal, that's not the case at Prehab, said CEO Michael Hughes, noting that the Bunkers have always been good neighbors — crematory or no crematory.
"Whenever you have a boys facility, you always want to make sure the neighbors are OK with that. We've got the canal on one side of us and a funeral home to the other side, and the fact that we'll have a crematory with more quiet neighbors doesn't bother us in the least," he said.
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hello everyone..I`ve been enjoying reading this forum, and I think its time that I posted something, so I thought i`d tell you about my most intense spanking memory.
Well, one of the worst spankings I got while I was growing up was in public. I say worst, not because of the pain but because of the sheer embarrassment of it all!
I was sweet sixteen at the time, and at that age when I thought I new it all.
I was just getting far to big for my boots. well my mum sure brought me down a peg or two on that fateful day.
I had my friend sally, and her boyfriend Tom round my house.
We were trying to have, what we thought was a very grown up conversation. Then my younger brother Jimmy, who was 12 years old,and his 3 bratty friends, came into the sitting room, and started listening to our conversation, and making comments.
Well I told them to buzz off, and shouted to mum to tell them to leave us alone. She just shouted back, "Jenny leave your brother and his friends alone, they have as much right to be here as you do"
my brother just laughed, and I told him to F... off!
Of course he ran and told my mother what I`d said. And then to my utter embarrassment, my mother came into the front room holding her big hairbrush! She pointed it in my direction, and I felt the colour rising up my face, as she said. "Young lady I`m warning you, if you ever swear at your brother again, or at anyone else for that matter,I`m going to give you such A smart Spanking, you`ll not sit down comfortably for a week! I`ve just about had enough of you lately. Do you understand me?"
I gave a nod and a muttered "yes mum"
"well make sure you do, I won`t warn you again" She replied.
To this day, I don`t know why I said what I did next.
Maybe it was the embarrassment of everyone hearing what she`d said. I don`t know, I really don`t. But when she`d left the room, I tried to save face by saying, "ow she`s only joking, she wouldn`t do that really."
"ow yes she would." piped up my brother, and I turned on him and said "Why don`t you shut up you little shit!"
Well..stupid thing to say under the circumstances I know, but I just said it without thinking.
In a flash, my mother was back in the room with her hairbrush in her hand!! She must have been just outside the door.
I felt the colour rising in my cheeks again as she said, "Thats it Jenny I`ve had it with you. I warned you what would happen if you swore again, and now your going to get what I promised you my girl, a GOOD SPANKING! And your friends and Jimmy`s will know I`m not joking, because your going to get it right here, and right now, infront of everybody!!!!
OW MY GOD I thought.. blushing hotter by the second... A SPANKiNG, Infront of all these grinning boys and my friends, she couldn`t be serious! I was temporararily struck dumb, by the sheer enormity of the punishment she was proposing to give me. Spanking was for kids~ not for pretty sixteen year old girls. My Image would be shattered for good. But even as I was thinking these sorts of thoughts, I knew deep down that my fate was sealed. My mother never let me off when she decided I needed a spanking. I began to shake and quiver with dreadfull exspectation.
My mother picked up a chair, and placed it in the bay window at one end of the sitting room. This gave everyone in the room a clear view, and anyone passing outside would also be able to see my punishment if they wanted to.
She then told everyone to stay were they were intill she`d finished spanking me.. well no one was going to rush off, and miss watching me get my buns warmed, now were they, I don`t think so. They were all glued to there seats.
Then she came over to me, grabbed my arm, and pulled me up out of my seat.
I found my voice, and started to plead with her not to spank me. She simply Ignored my pleading, sat down on the chair, and put me over her ample lap with my nose to the carpet, and my bottom in the air, facing my spellbound audience.
I think my face was brick red with embarassment. I was well aware of the suppressed grins on all the boys faces, and even sally looked like she was enjoying my shame.
Then things just went from bad to worse! I felt my mothers fingers under me undoing my jeans!!
Tears of humiliation ran down my hot face as she worked them down over my hips.Then she pushed them all the way down to my ankles, leaving the whole length of my shapely legs, and my plump bottom, covered in only a thin pair of tightly stretched knickers, on show to all the boys! How they must have been hugging themselves with glee, staring at my knickered bottom. The blue cloth stretched to bursting point by my plump out thrust cheeks.
As I lay there misrably over her lap in my undignified positon, waiting for the hairbrush to fall, I felt her fingers sliping under the wastband of my panties! And with that, the sudden relisation hit my mind .. SHE WAS GOING TO TAKE MY KNICKERS DOWN!!!!!!
Well, I`m sure you can imagine my reaction, I was simply horrified by this, and did my best to stop her. Grabbing her hand, and pleading with her like a little girl, that she couldn`t, and there were boys there, and please mum, ow pleeease mum, pleeease don`t take them down! etc.
But again, I new inside that my comeuppence had finally arrived, there would be no reprive this time, and I was indeen going to receive every teenage girls worst nightmare A PUBLIC BARE BOTTOM SPANKING!
And of course my pleading did no good at all. My mother had already made up her mind that my knickers were coming down, and I knew it to.
She grabbed my free hand, and pulled it out of the way. Saying, "Yes jenny I know there are boys here, and if they haven`t seen a girls bare behind before, well there going to see yours now young lady.
I`m not going to waste my time spanking your pants. Your getting this spanking were you need it, on your bare bottom! And I hope it shames you to the very core.
I won`t have the behaviour you`ve been giving me lately.
Ive warned you, and now it's time for action, and by the time I`ve finished with you today, you`ll not have a shread of modesty or respect left, I promise you that my girl.
But you are going to have a very very sore bum!"
Then before I could say anything else, she took hold of the waistband of my panties again, and HAUlED MY KNICKERS DOWN TO MY ANKLES to join my jeans!!!
I can actually remember feeling my cheeks spring into view! The humiliation of that moment was almost to much to bare, no pun intended, although I`m sure that bare was the word on ever ones lips, because I was BARE, my god was I bare!!
I could feel everyones eyes on my big white bottom!
And even worse then that, if that`s possible. I was acutely aware that the lips of my pussy were on full show as well!!! In fact, Sally told me afterwards, that the boys had seen everthing I had. And what a shocking spectacle it was to see my plump bare bottom, and thrust out pussy suddenly on full display there in front of her, and everyone else. She said she was very glad that it was me there, and not her. So much for friends.
My bottom felt like it filled the livingroom that day, and I had a strange creeping sensation all over my exsposed flesh.
I was well aware that I had a nice curvy, bum and I could feel all the boys gulping in the sight of my exsposed rear end.I was so ashamed.
Then my mother made it even worse by sighing and saying, "my god girl if you could see yourself, what a discusting sight you look there`s nothing back here we can`t see. I hope your really ashamed of yourself.
I heard a few giggles from my audience. And with that she tapped the hairbrush against my full cheeks a few times, and said "well let`s see if we can put this fat bottom to good use shall we. I know how much you like to wiggle your bottom at the boys normally Jenny, well let's see if you enjoy wiggeling it at them now it's nice and bare, Im sure they`ll enjoy it even if you don`t."
She said some more things like that to humiliate me even more and then the spanking started!
OW DEARY ME...what a spanking it was as well, that wicked brush made short work of my sensertive seat. Red hot spank followed red hot spank, as my mother worked that brush around on my stinging outraged cheeks, and smarting thighs.
It felt like a red hot iron was being pressed against the bulging bare flesh of my boiling behind, over, and over, again, the smacks echoing loudly around the room.
I was very aware of my plump cheeks bouncing wildly with every crisp spank, and my crying and hollering as my bum grew hotter and redder by the minute. I pleaded like a little girl, but it was no good, it just went on and on. Some people say, that they weren`t aware of the people watching them when there spanking was going on. I most certainly was! I can still see those excited faces now. I expect for a 12 year old boy, seeing a snooty pretty sixteen year old, get a pants down spanking was a dream come true. But I was pissed at sally, she seemed to be enjoying my shame as much as the boys. As for Tom, well I can still remember his cool blue eyes taking in every detail of my nakedness, but at the same time wearing that cool exspresion. He was a year older then us, and I was sure that after this he would just see me as a silly baby, and who could blame him, thats just how I felt at that moment, with my bared red backside waving about in the air over my mums knee.
I don`t know how long she tanned me for, but by the time she`d finished my bum felt like someone had taken a blowtorch to it! Then to finsh off with, she hand spanked the backs of my legs, right down to my knees, and on my already sore thighs.
I was one very sorry young lady by then I can tell you, and to coin an old phrase, `my bottom was as red as my face.` I think my swollon bum must have been shining out at the boys like a big red neon peach!
That`s enough I think said my very capable mother.
"Now young lady in future, you won`t doubt my resolve to give you just what you need, when you need it, will you?
I`m sure at the moment you hate me. But one day you`ll respect me for what I`ve done to you today my girl. And just so were clear, I`m glad you have suffered so much shame today, maybe it will teach you some humility,and that will make worthwhile all the effort and time we have all spent here today Jenny." With that she stood me sobbing in the corner, with my hands on my head, and my jeans and knickers still down in utter disgrace. Then she got everbody a nice drink, while I stood there like a naughty little girl, with my burning red butt sticking out of the corner.
Well that`s my most shameful exspirience, but it`s also the most intense. Sorry it got so long. I posted it on another forum, but rewritten it to post it here and I think it`s even longer.
I`ve tried to recount it as best as I remember it, some of what was said, may not be word for word, but it`s pretty close. It was such an intense exspirience that I remember it like it was yesterday.
How do I feel about it today? well I do respect my mother for spnking me like that, and even though it was very humiliating, it taught me to show respect for others, and stoped my silly behavior. As for the boys, after my spanking I hated the constsnt teasing, but now see that was part of my punishment, and don`t hold it against them. I know they enjoyed my spanking, and why shouldn`t they have. I had been looking down my nose at them for a long time, and they got there own back by getting to see my bare bum soundly smacked for my constant bratty and snooty behaviour. And there can be no better way for a sixteen old girl to be reduced in status before a 12 year old boy, then to have her bare rearend thrust up infront of him over her mum`s knee for a good spanking can there. So of course they gloried in my downfall, who wouldn`t have.
I bumped into one of the boys who was there on that shamful day recently, and he said that he was so glad that my mother finally punished me for my bratty behavior. He said that even if she had spanked me on my jeans, he and the other boys would have been so thankful, but the fact that she took my knickers down was very impressive. And at the time he had been absolutely delighted to watch me spanked. He said he`d really like to thank my mum for spanking me that day, and taking my knickers down, because he`s never forgotton the wonderful sight of my bare arse in the air over her lap, getting the sound spanking it needed. He asked me if I thought it had done me good, and I told him that yes, without a doubt it did. I was a much nicer person after that spanking. He said that it showed that no girl is to old to benerfit from a very embarrassing knickers down spanking. And I had to agree with him. The combination of the shame of having my bottom bared in public, the pain of the spanking, and not to mention the humiliation of having all my friends know that I was still spanked on the bare bottom at sixteen, certainly taught me a much needed lesson in life~That nobody in this world is any better then any one else. And by making me an object of ridicule that day, my mum showed me that people who think they are better, usually end up being brought down to earth with a bump! My mother decided to teach me that lesson in the best way she knew, by giving me a public bare bottomed spanking, and I got just what I deserved!!!
it still makes my face blush to remember it now...my mothers
hairbrush bounceing up and down on my sore cheeks, my pleading and crying, her stearn lectures as she spanked the firm plump cheeks of my big red bottom, the boys wide eyed stares..."Are you learning your lesson young lady".. SPANK! SPANK! SPANK!.."WELL ARE YOU!"..SPANK! SPANK! SPANK! SPANK ...."YOU" .SPANK!.."WILL"..SPANK.."OBAY"..SPANK "ME" .. SPANK! SPANK! SPANK! SPANK! SPANK!!!..OW sends shivers down my spine just wrighting it.
So, do you think my mother was right to spank me like that?
your feedback would be nice thankyou.
Jenny xxx
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Ok; nice story.....well written......BUT......the reason you might not have gotten many responses is that this is "real life." You obviously can not pull someone's jeans down when they are over your lap.
Bet you would have received a slew of responses on the other board. Mark
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Jenny, welcome to the board! And thanks for sharing.
Was it fair? Well, I'd say in front of everyone with the brush is AWFUL harsh, but it's not really my business to remark.
Welcome! Keep posting!
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Nice story!
I don't think it was fair to bare your bottom when there were young men and boys in the house. Should have been in private, or at least with the panties on.
And just for the record, mlas, my husband has pulled my jeans down while I was over his lap! So there!
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come on Mark..... you were not there so dont be judgeing her. your kind of response might be what keeps people from posting anything !!!!!!!!-- great story in my opinion, and like your friend said, "im glad it was you and not me"
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you probably should have been spanked, but i am not a big believer in humiliation nice recollection... thanks for shareing!
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Spanked yes, bare bottom exposed to others...NO!! She could have turned you away if she felt it needed to be on the bare, but if humiliation was her point, it would have been plenty humiliating to just be spanked on the panties...or really, just to be spanked.
Well told story though!
Oh...and ignore mlas...he needs a spanking today.
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no i dont think it is a good idea, at least not for me. I would never have any guts to face them again and would rather stay at home or maybe migrate to another country
However if it does good to you, then she's right
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HI YES this is a great R/L story. It is very detailed and
well written.
I can NEVER see ANY excuse for public humiliation.
It happened to me only once, and my experience was
not anywhere NEARLY as embarrassing as yours. It's
not a painful emotional scar for me anymore, BUTT I
still remember it and so will you...as long as you live.
I would have told everyone to go and then ordered
you to your room. THEN I would have spanked you
privately. NOBODY ELSE has any business seeing
your private parts, EVER. AND had I been your father,
you'd have been spanked over panties. It would still
hurt enough with a hairbrush!
THANKS for sharing this very painful episode from
your past. It took a lot of guts to do that!
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Some people here will have noticed that I'm not opposed to reasonable CP for childish offences, but spanking is for children not young adults in my view.
Since you ask, I think your mother went way, way overboard. It was an unforgivable abuse to you and the spectators. IF she wanted to spank you at all it should at least have been in private.
However, it was a good and well written story.
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