Games

Dan Efran’s Computer Games

Dan Efran as a LEGO MinifigHi! I’m Dan Efran.

I’ve written a few computer games, mostly short adventures. You can play them for free, online, right now!

 

CAN'T STOP THE HYPE TRAINCAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN is an action-puzzle game implemented in just 1024 bytes of JavaScript, created for JS1k 2015.

Click to switch which train is faster. Don’t let them collide!

Play CAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN (at JS1k)

 

Ka - cover artKa is an old-school text adventure.

For a Pharaoh, death is only the beginning….

My entry in JayIsGames.com’s Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7.

Play Ka (at CGDC7)

 

The Sand Boxes - cover artThe Sand Boxes is a Flash point-and-click adventure.

These puzzle boxes are unusually sophisticated for Inca artifacts….

My entry in JayIsGames.com’s Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8.

Play The Sand Boxes (at CGDC8)

 

Hall of Heads - cover artHall of Heads is interactive fiction based on a They Might Be Giants song.

Please don’t try to leave…

My “track” of Apollo 18+20, an Interactive Fiction “tribute album” homage to They Might Be Giants’ delightfully surreal Apollo 18.

Play Hall of Heads (at Apollo 18+20)

Particle-antiparticle interactions, but no player interactions!

A particle’s eye view of a particle accelerator.

Hadron the Uniter is a no-button Flash game created for the Ludum Dare 26 Game Jam (with the theme of “Minimalism”).

Watch out for those negatrons!

You are a mysterious field that can attract subatomic particles together in small groups, thereby synthesizing atoms of various elements. Making Hydrogen one atom at a time isn’t too hard, but there’s so much antimatter about, even Helium is a challenge. Can you capture the components of a Lithium atom? Beryllium? Something even more complex? (Probably not, because the game balance isn’t that great: there really is too much antimatter. Li, at least, is achievable.)

Play Hadron the Uniter