Relaxing Game
This super simple, slightly pointless, very relaxing, quietly addictive Flash game is really fun. It’s called Boomshine.
Once loaded, (it’ll take a few minutes for those of you on slower connections like I am) you’ll see a number of little colored circles floating randomly on the screen. You place your cursor somewhere on the screen. When you click, you create a large circle in that spot. Any small circles that touch your large circle, themselves grow large and capable of continuing this chain reaction. Then they shrink and disappear. The object is to affect as many of the circles as possible. So far, I’ve not been able to reach the given goals all the way through to level twelve, but it’s fun trying.
What’s more, there is some relaxing music that accompanies the game if you turn your sound up. I thought it was neat that the programmer came up with a way to add sound effects (when the circles affect one another) that blends in nicely with the pretty music.
You won’t win any awards, add fodder to your resume, or climb any mountains with this one, but if you are feeling stressed or just waiting for another page in your browser to load, this is a nice, gentle (and kind of pretty) way to pass your time.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
mmmm…sounds like a game on a Star Trek episode I once saw. It was supposed to be relaxing also and as it turned out very addictive and part of a take over the world plot
Beverly Crusher’s son was the only one who managed to avoid playing the game and thus saved the day. You are not planing on taking over the world are you. 
May 27th, 2007 at 7:04 am
LOL! I remember that episode!
Hey, and no fair sharing my world-domination-through-fun secrets.
P.S. Thanks for stopping by.