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In the days of flash it was far and away the collection of games on Orisinal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal

Unfortunately the site is no longer up with flash having been sunsetted, but you can still find the collection on the internet archive or other places. It takes a little more effort to set up than it used to but they are still playable if you're dedicated.

https://archive.org/details/orisinal-morning-sunshine

I have an unfinished personal project of a game built with the Rough.js library for a hand drawn feel (everything is drawn programatically, there are no sprites or images) and I think it looks not bad. Since I had a baby it's kinda on hold indefinitely, but it is playable on desktop and mobile, and I almost finished a decent level editor for custom courses:

https://squigglegolf.com/

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Squiggle Golf is fun! Would be great if users could opt-in to get emailed with the new level once it's ready. You can bcc all of them in a single email to avoid costs (I'm not sure if this would work).

Thanks a lot! I think the current setup generates the level based on a hash of the date, so you should get a new level at your local midnight hour based on your browser's reported timezone. There might be some small issues around daylight savings times or leap seconds since it was pretty quickly hacked together.

You can play the game completely offline as a PWA and still get a new level every day (and you can in theory also play an infinite number of past and future games if you just change the url params). It was inspired by the pre-NYT Wordle where the game was always playable offline and you still get the same game as everyone else that day, but instead of using a fixed number of possible words/games, it makes levels with a seeded PRNG using the date.

If I find the time to work on it again I'll add the level editor so people can share custom levels, and a backend so you could sign in and share your levels or daily scores. But with my growing family I'm too busy for the foreseeable future, so it may remain as just the proof of concept that it is right now.

I saw someone else mention Orisinal the other day (probably also on this site) and it reminds me of why the old internet was so much fun - I believe someone in high school shared it and it was a fun discovery to tell your friends about.

I loved Winterbells on Orisinal, looks like it's playable at a number of sites still.

Just had a fun with your golf game. Cool one!

yo this rocks.

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