Evacuation is this interesting little addictive puzzle flash-game. Levels start off simple but get exponentially harder. Apparently, there’s an ending at level 200? It’s a little easier if you just suicide some (read: all) the crew except the captain, but, your score suffers as a result. I can barely survive to level 40 with a full crew without extensive cheating, so… :-( [via]
Saw Spelunky! over on metafilter, but didn’t give it a try until a week later, when everyone else I knew on IRC had already tried it, and I finally said to myself, hey, why not. Spelunky! is a rogue-like platformer, where you play the role of the brave and dashing archaeologist (presumably), and run around saving fair maidens from traps and monsters of all sorts, while collecting gold and gems to presumably fund future excavations and exploration. There are a lot of neat and interesting events and items in the game, such as the gold idol, where, as a nod to ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ if you pick the idol up, as expected, a boulder drops and rolls after you. Would be a lot more fun to explore if everything didn’t try to kill you though. :(