Draw Stuff Then Play

First, a plea: if you're using Internet Explorer, please strongly consider upgrading to Firefox. Firefox is just a much better browser than IE: it's more secure, it's free, it's supported by the community, and it's got sweet extensions that you can add to it. Best part: the more people switch to Firefox, the more Microsoft panics. And it's oh so sweet to see them panic.

Seriously, though, you actually should switch to Firefox. We've also got a few games to cover today, all variations on a theme. First up:



Draw Play, and its brother Draw Play 2, are both pretty interesting games. You've got to draw a path for your character to take to the finish. Both games are a bit weird with some of the hit detection sometimes, but they're pretty fun.

Along the same lines (sorry, bad pun), check out LineArena:



I would be surprised if you hadn't seen LineRider before, but in any case, it's worth checking out if you haven't. There's a little drama in the LineRider world, over some copyright stuff or something - it appears the original designers of the game got a "real" deal offered to them, and thus had to swing the heavy hammer of justice at anyone who would dare improve or alter their game. One group that did this was ZadaRider, which mainly added things like an eraser (duh!) to the first version of the game, and stuff got crazy from there. Now it looks like Zada is developing their own game, but the fans are pissy because it took so long to come out (they put a countdown timer on their site and everything, and it's now been weeks since it ran down to zero). It's unclear if they couldn't get around using copyrighted code, or got in trouble for graphic-snatching, or what, but something's up.

Not ZadaRider (but also not playable yet):



More to come.

By the way, Carlos Mencia sucks, in case you didn't already know.