The Hitchhiker's Adventure Game
Old skool text based adventuring with a snazzy new flash interface make The Hitchhiker's Adventure Game a pleasure to play for a Hitchhiker's fan like myself. Start by switching on the light and move on from there. Don't forget your towel.

Entry 1047, Friday, December 31st 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(52%) • Comments(28)

Do those cool Chinese characters on your new tattoo tell the world what a mean son of a gun you are, or that you secretly like to wear woman's underclothing? Hanzi Smatter is dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture and will soon tell you what foolish message you are actually carrying around on your bod.

Entry 1046, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comments(2)

Gorillaz
Explore the warped flash world of the Gorillaz to find all the music and games. Features the artwork of one of my all time favourite graphic artists, Jamie Hewlett, the original artist that made tank girl the visual feast that it was.

Entry 1045, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comments(3)

Slacker
If you're a slacker even getting washed, eating and leaving the house can form the basis of a point'n'click adventure. I know it does for me [at gamegarage].

Entry 1044, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(59%) • Comments(41)

What's The Catch?
I love Tom And Jerry cartoons and What's The Catch? really captures the spirit of the original series as you either take control of Tom to catch the falling plates, or make Jerry jump the obstacles as he runs away from Tom. Nice. Three levels of difficulty but nothing too taxing.

Entry 1043, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(51%) • Comments(5)

Billy Harvey Music
The music of Billy Harvey wrapped up in some awsome flash animated navigation. I must admit I hadn't heard of him but I love this site.

Entry 1042, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comments(2)

Unfugly Weather
Way back at the begining of the year I was moaning about how the BBC had made their hyper-useful weather pages so fugly that they were almost unbearable to visit. Well sometime back in September I re-bookmarked the site to remind myself that they'd undergone another redesign and were now beautiful once again and had gone back to the pure and simple task of telling us how rainy, windy and cold it would be in this country. Did they listen to my sound advice? The 9 month gap suggests not, but it's nice to see this 'must visit' web destination is easy on the eye once again. Now if only they could make it a little warmer...

Entry 1041, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comment(1)

Astro Suzie
Well, what do you know? I'm just doing my end of year links clear out by working alphabetically through my Opera bookmarks folder (that's how they arrange themsleves) and this is the third point'n'click game link in a row. You guys really do send a lot of stuff into me, dont you? Thanks!

Anyway, despite the childish graphics and lack of sound (my pet peeve in a game), you'll find that helping Astro Suzie save the earth from alien invasion, still involves some tricky puzzles. Requests for help in the comments as usual.

Entry 1040, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(48%) • Comments(108)

Adventure Game Studio
For all you point'n'click nuts out there you can now take a crack at building your own game, thanks to Adventure Game Studio. I haven't tried it yet, or tried playing any of the games people have come up with (shame on me), but it's a fantastic idea. If any of you use your imagination to come up with something yourself please send me a link so I can try it out [ta Daisy].

Entry 1039, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(56%) • Comments(16)

Which Way Adventure
The Which Way Adventure is a fantastically easy to complete point'n'click adventure as it has a huge variety of endings, some of which you can get to in just 2 or 3 clicks, although it's a little harder if you count the manticore ending as a failure. Will you become a hobo traveling the rails, join the circus, or cause the obliteration of the USA by hoards of Russian nuclear warheads? The possibilities are endless (well fairly limited actually but that doesn't sound so good).

WARNING: Before I get hoards of e-mails and comments about how useless this game is, I warn you now that if you are serious about your point'n'click gaming you might want to give this one a miss as it's only a simplistic bit of fun. Consider yourself warned - hold off on that comment button.

Entry 1038, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(42%) • Comments(41)

December 2004
Ok - I'm doing a little bit of end of year house-keeping to try and tidy up all the links and photos I've gathered over December and done nothing with. The idea is that come the new year when you guys are kind enough to mail stuff in I'll actually get round to posting it straight away. Well that's the idea anyway.

First up are a group of photos gathered over the course of my company's events during December which I only remembered I had lurking on my USB drive when Jules came round the other night.

They're from our quarterly monthly meeting (in which we discuss the progress of the various different parts of the company and then retire to a bar - this time we went to Mar I Terra a great Tapas bar around the corner from the office), from the IM Awards ceremony, which I've already posted about, and our office party at Jongleurs (comedy club and home of the worst food in London).

Right, enjoy the pics, and I'll move on to the links - apologies if I post something you sent in without a credit, but quite predictably I've lost pretty much all of the original e-mails.

Entry 1037, Tuesday, December 28th 2004, Filed In Diary
Comments(20)

Maama Room
A veritable feast of point'n'clickery this week with the comments from one spawning suggestions for another. If you haven't played it already enjoy completing Maama Room [thanks Peter].

Entry 1036, Thursday, December 23rd 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(43%) • Comments(89)

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