Miniclip.com

Did you know that ...

Miniclip.com is an excellent site that provides small games written in flash and shockwave by various companies. All the games are free to play on their site, although a few multi-player games require registering for a free account.

There are also many games available for individual download to your computer, and webmasters who wish to put miniclip.com games on their website can use the provided code and games to either put an entire game room on their site (as shown on the bottom of my blog), or just link to / embed individual games for visitors to play (as shown here).

Snow Line Help Santa Claus collect the presents.

Play this free game now!!

The miniclip.com website has good site design, although the flash and shockwave plugins need to be installed for a full experience of the site. The games available on this site are often updated, so in the future, I will probably post about some of the new games available there when I can't find anything that would be easy to explain in a single blog post.

Well, now you know!

edit:
Unfortunately, this blog template was too narrow for embedding the flash game directly into the post, so I have only included a link here. However, I have already downloaded the template for this blog, and am in the process of revamping it so that all widths use % and all corners are generated using Nifty Corners Cube, a very handy javascript tool for generating rounded corners without using any images! I hope to be able to use my new template soon :)

Also, I am aware that the miniclip.com Game Room isn't working totally correctly right now. I will try to find out what's wrong, then post the solution here ... actually ... never mind ... I just realized. To play the games in the Game Room, you need to have this site on the whitelist for all your pop-up blockers. Unfortunately, the Game Room does not allow you to play the games within this site, you have to play them on the miniclip.com site itself ... (sigh) ... what a pity :'(