After he completed his previous game, Block Drop, Dan Russell-Pinson (the author of the popular Tipping Point series) decided to do something completely different so he started experimenting with the Box2D Physics engine.

Once he became comfortable with it, he started fleshing out the core elements of the game by introducing the rolling balls and then coming up with interesting obstacles and gadgets for them to interact with.

When the idea came to make the balls annihilate each other, the physics-based puzzle game Collider really started to take off.

With 25 levels of increasing difficulty, an auto-save feature and hours of dynamically generated music, Collider will appeal to a large audience.

Have fun!

Block Drop is a new 3D puzzle game released by Dan Russell-Pinson, the author of the popular Tipping Point adventure series.

Your goal here is to use a gem to remove all the blocks leaving only the checkered block. Blocks are simply removed bu jumping on them.

Use the arrow keys to move your gem to the next block. Hold down the shift key while pressing an arrow key to jump two spaces.

“Each level of the game is randomly generated and features its own unique computer generated music, so no two games of Block Drop will ever be the same” Dan said.

You receive a level code for every level you play so you can always return back and resume playing where you left off.

Block Drop is a very well done puzzler with good graphics. The difficulty ramps up slowly though, and some players may find the gameplay repetitive after a while.

Hint: don’t forget to use the bird’s eye view in the top right corner of the game window!

Have fun!

Tipping Point is a Point’n’Click adventure series created by Dan Russell-Pinson, and chapter four is now live!

“Tipping point is an online adventure game with photo-realistic graphics, unique puzzles, a compelling storyline and original music.

Chapter 4 expands the world of Tipping Point and takes it to a whole new level with 28 photo realistic screens, 110 individual sound effects and 4 original songs” said the author.

If you like the Tipping Point series, you will probably enjoy this new chapter!

Have fun!

Tipping Point is a Point’n’Click adventure series created by Dan Russell-Pinson, and the good news is that the chapter three is now live!

“After several months of work, I am happy to announce that chapter 3 of Tipping Point is completed and ready to play. Once the title screen loads, click “Play Game” to start from the beginning or click “Load Chapter” and enter “FREEKL” to start playing chapter 3 immediately” said the author.

If you like the Tipping Point series, please support Dan and consider making a donation to help keep the game going!

Have fun!

Tipping Point  – Chapter 3 walkthrough (thanks nitrox!)

Here at FreeGamesNews, we love free browser-based games. The end of the year is coming soon, and it’s time for YOU to cast your vote for the Best Developers of the year in our first annual FreeGamesNews Awards.

Here are the 10 nominees in the category Best Adventure games Developers of 2007, in alphabetical order:

Aztec (Japan)

Aztec is a Flash Adventure/Escape games designer from Japan. Between June and December 07, Aztec released four unique and superbly crafted games, Shrine (Jinja), Escape from Island, Escape from Octlien and Dr Dokkoy.

Anders Gustafsson (Swede)

Anders Gustafsson is an independent developer from Swede who mainly works with film and game production. He is well known in the Flash games community for his very popular Point’n’Click Adventure series Gateway. The second installment in the series was released last March.

Gionatan Iasio (Italy)

Gionatan Iasio is a Flash games designer from Italy and the brilliant mind behind the Warbears series. Warbears Mission 2 and Mission 3 were released this year, and the author is already working on the upcoming fourth installment in the series, “Underwater”.

Makibishi Studio

Makibishi Comic is a very creative and original Point’n’Click adventure game created by Makibishi Studio of Japan (their site really deserves a visit!) Makibishi Comic is loaded with fascinating artwork and the overall quality is impressive!

Bernd Mattiebe (Germany)

Bernd Mattiebe is a German artist and designer. He is also the man who gave life last year to Wogger, a cute red alien. Since then, he has created over 100 chapters for the Wogger Mini series that more and more people enjoy playing every week.

Dan Russell-Pinson (U.S.A.)

Dan Russell-Pinson has been programming since the early 80’, but he only started learning Flash a few months ago. Last August, he released the first chapter of Tipping Point, a very promising series of adventure games, and the second chapter went live a few weeks ago.

Federico Rutenberg (Argentina)

Federico Rutenberg released the first chapter of Esklavos last April. Esklavos is a Point’n’Click Adventure series involving two young aliens. Since then, he has created 9 more chapters and Esklavos is quickly becoming popular series.

On (Japan)

On of Eyezmaze, the creator of the hugely popular Grow series has released several games this year, with major hits like Dwarf Complete or Grow Island, along with a few others like Neighbours, Grow Nano vol.2 and Galves Adventure.

Mateusz Skutnik (Poland)

Mateusz Skutnik defines himself as a Flash games architect and a graphic novel artist. His best known adventure/escape series so far is Submachine (with two new chapters this year, Submachine 4 and FLF). He also started two new adventure series this year, Covert Front and Daymare Town. The author is now developing “Submachine 5: the Root” that should be released in January.

Trickysheep (New Zealand)

Trickysheep is a digital publisher based in New Zealand. The 21st of November, they released Anika’s Odyssey – Land of the Taniwha, “a magical adventure deep into a lush and enchanted land”. The game was coded by Jeff Nusz, the author of another original adventure game released this year, Sprout, with art by Tom Robinson.

Tipping Point is a new Point’n’Click adventure series created by Dan Russell-Pinson.

“Like most adventure games, there are no rules and no instructions in Tipping Point, and you can’t do anything wrong. Just look closely at your surroundings and the items on the screen. Try to figure out what to click, pick up, etc. to move the story forward. Enjoy the lush surroundings as the mystery unfolds.”

The first two chapters are online, and the author is already working on the third one.

Tipping Point features beautiful photo realistic graphics, nice animations and a good soundtrack (sound required!). If you like adventure games, you will love this series!

Play Chapter 1!

Play Chapter 2!

Tipping Point walkthroughs here

(thanks BoomBoxer and ChasR!)

03-25-08: Tipping Point – Chapter 3 is live!

11-07-08: Tipping Point – Chapter 4 is live!