Orisinal

By: Max

On: August 22nd, 2006

Hey everybody, I’m one of the new writers for TIGSource. So all you long-time TIGgers (a horrible, if adorable appellation) let me know if I have a terrible new flavor of reporting, the Crystal Pepsi of journalism if you will. But that is neither here nor there. What brings us here today is perhaps the greatest casual games website on the net, Orisinal.

Orisinal serves as a personal portfolio/compilation of Ferry Halim’s flash games, with Halim acting as perhaps the most prolific casual games auteur outside of the shooter scene. The games featured on Orisinal are done in a wonderfully painterly style, set to gentle, melodic scores, and most importantly, are masterworks of simple interaction and design mechanisms. Most Orisinal games require only the mouse to play and resolve within minutes, but can be played again and again (and again). If coffee breaks were a docile herbivore, these seemingly tiny games would be their most voracious predator.

My personal favorite is The Runaway Train, but it would be a long and boring post if I were to describe each game, so let it suffice that I have given you the URL, pointed you in the right direction and given you a small shove. Go have fun.