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Can you believe that the Homestar Runner guys have been making their Flash cartoons for ten years, and they're still as hilarious as ever?

They sometimes collaborate with They Might Be Giants, and this week's cartoon is one of their group efforts.

One regret I have is that I never saw them play live when I was living in the Atlanta area.

GamePoetry.com had a 4K contest where all games entered had to be under 4 kilobytes (4,096 bytes). This is similar in style to the old Atari 2600 games, and it sounded like a fun idea.

Here is my entry: Gompers

The mechanic is similar to the Gladiator game I made a few years ago.

Gameplay:
- You play a golden mermaid who is fighting off incoming cruise ships
- The character follows the cursor, the ships follow your character
- Clicking the mouse launches a harpoon. If the harpoon hits a ship while in flight, it damages the ship
- You have a finite number of harpoons. You have to retrieve your spent harpoons in order to use them again
- If you collide with a ship, the ship capsizes, and you lose 10% of your life
- Obstacles slow you down, and slow down the ships. Obstacles include: capsized ships and your seaweed net in the center of the screen
- Each level spawns ships, the number of which is equal to the level number (3 ships in level 3)
- Each level the ships get a little bigger, a little faster, and a little stronger (can handle more harpoon strikes)
- Each level you get one additional harpoon. If your health is below 100%, you get a 10% boost in health each level.
- The first few levels are intended to get the player familiar with the mechanics, later on the strategy involves trapping the oncoming ships amongst the seaweed and capsized ships

Ninjai: The Little Ninja should be inspiring to anyone interested in creating online animation.

The story and characters are less compelling than the visual style, but it's still worth watching. The music is also good. Overall, for a Flash animation it may be the highest-quality series out there.

Xombie is a post-apocalypse Flash animation series with surprisingly good animation and narrative quality - good enough for TV, which isn't saying much, but TV in general has a higher bar than the Web, which has none.

Bitey Castle is the portfolio of an Aussie named Adam Phillips, and contains some of the highest-quality flash animations I've seen (particularly the backgrounds), the most recent of which serve to expand the world of the forest planet of Brackenwood and it's fantastic inhabitants.

Check out:
- Animation for the Brackenwood series
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Here it is, at long last - the synthesis of my interests in music, narrative, and visual arts: matchstick.com/acetio

Just in case you wanted more evidence of how odd Japanese tastes can be, see this, particularly the first one.

I always have trouble when I can't tell if something is intentionally funny.

Not as cohesive or comprehensive as Homestar Runner, but still pretty good. (Some of it is dirty! and offensive!)

ExtraBad includes

• We are Robots
• White Bread Blues
• The Bad Life
• Hell on Earth
• Off My Lawn!

Stupid Flash Cartoons

I made 'em so you may as well look at 'em

Video

The Joke

Wallet

Underwear

Heart of Gold

- TV

- Dog

- Dream

- Panda

- Radar Love

- R2C4

Video
Paul and Mark try to pick a video to watch

Wallet
Mark searches for his lost wallet

Underwear
Paul and Robert talk about clothes

R2C4
Mark meets a new robot friend

Heart of Gold
Man's best friend

Interactive Storytelling for Children
Diane the Mouse - unfinished