Good news: just a week after the release of Bound Bear, GamePure has launched its follow-up, Bound Bear Quest Mode which is right now playable in your favorite browser!

Just like in the original game, your goal here is to bounce a little white bear back to its mother located in the right bottom corner of the screen.

You start with ten lives only, and you’ll get four extra lives in easy mode each time you reach the small squared bear (one extra life only in hard mode).

Bound Bear Quest Mode is even better than the original. It features more levels (I’m currently stuck at level 12!) and is much more challenging. Brilliant!

Have fun!

Bound Bear is a new little skill game created by GamePure (Speed Cluster, Oshidama). The goal here is to hurl your little white bear through the air and make it land onto the big white bear located in the bottom right corner of the game window.

Control is entirely mouse-based. Aim the trajectory for your little bear by positioning the cursor and then hold the left mouse button to start the power meter. Release and watch your bear bouncing on the different obstacles. The more bounces your bear will do before reaching its target, the more points you get.

You start the game with 20 lives, and you lose one life each time your bear stops bouncing somewhere in the playfield. Try to catch the white squared bears to get extra lives.

Cute and nicely done, Bound Bear becomes quickly addictive. My only complain is that the game is limited to 10 levels only. Fully family friendly, here is a nice distraction for a coffee break.

Have fun!

Source: Nicop.

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 Puzzle games Developers of 2007, in alphabetical order:

Bart Bonte (Belgium)

Bart Bonte is a Flash developer from Belgium who has already developed successful games. More well known for his Room Escape games (the Bonte Room series, A bark in the Dark, Loose the Moose), Bart released several puzzle games in 2007, such as Fields of Logic, Chicken Grow and more recently, Factory Balls.

Damien Clarke (Australia)

Damien Clarke is a Flash game designer from Australia. Many of his games are co-sponsored by several major games portals, which is a sign of quality. The author has released two excellent puzzle games this year, Silversphere and Bloxorz.

Creative Units (Germany)

Creative Units is a German development and games design company that created Excit earlier this year. Excit is a very nice viral Flash game that borrows from RoadBlocks and its clone Orbox B heavily, but it takes the original idea to a whole new level!

GamePure (Japan)

GamePure is a Flash game design studio from Japan. GamePure has released many action games this year, such as Speed Cluster, Oshidama or the very cute Bound Bear series. They have also created a very unique Collapse-type game, Micro Art, impressive on many levels.

Stephen Harris (New Zealand)

Stephen Harris is the author of the Bloons series and many other successful games. The original Bloons game was released last March and became an instant hit. Since then, Stephen has created Bloons World, a site dedicated to Bloons fans, two “Bloons” Tower Defense games, and a few other puzzle/skill games!

Yoshio Ishii (Japan)

From japan, Yoshio Ishii has been designing Flash games for several years now. He is well known for his Neko Series, a series of games involving cats. In 2007, he decided to focus on creating puzzle games, and released some very creative games such as Plupon, the amazing Hoshi Saga series, and more recently, Slidon.

Taro Ito (Japan)

Taro Ito, the game designer behind Gamedesign, has released many games over the years, and this year was no different with four new puzzle game titles, Porolith Flash, The Four Color Problem, School Wars and Chat Noir.

Michael Le

When Michael Le from Canada released his puzzle game Jelly Blocks last summer, he certainly wasn’t expecting instant success. Jelly Blocks is so simple and absorbing that people can’t stop playing. And with 100 levels available to play, it can take a while to complete it.

Preloaded (U.K.)

Preloaded is a London-based Web design agency. After CDX, a multi-episode adventure released last year, Preloaded is back in 2007 with LaunchBall, a new addictive Puzzle/Physics Flash game created for the Science Museum in London their new Launchpad gallery.

Adam Schroeder (U.S.A.)

Adam Schroeder is the creator of the very challenging and delightful puzzle game Sola Rola. He also released the third (and final?) installment in his Asteroids Revenge earlier this year, and is now co-working on Argue (About Everything) with a fellow developer, a multiplayer real-time strategy game set for release next year at Kongregate.