Orisinal
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Orisinal: Morning Sunshine is a website
featuring 58 Adobe Flash
games. The website was created in 2000 by Ferry Halim who resides in Fresno
, California
. It won the World Summit Award
in 2003 in the e-entertainment category and the Webby Award in the games category in 2003. In 2004, the site jayisgames.com commended Orisinal: Morning Sunshine for Outstanding Achievement in Artistic Expression in its Best of 2004 special awards. As of November 2010, Ferry Halim has begun selling a selection of his games on the Apple App Store in remade versions for the iPhone
.
), with few games involving fighting and battle. The games have been considered art game
s.
The Orisinal website also includes an online store, guest book, desktop wallpaper, trailers and a special function that allows users to send and receive flowers custom-made via email services.
Orisinal is also known for having very strong protection over its Flash games that has kept them from being unlawfully copied onto other websites. According to Ferry Halim, the website is "his personal playground."
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
featuring 58 Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
games. The website was created in 2000 by Ferry Halim who resides in Fresno
Fresno, California
Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. It won the World Summit Award
World Summit Award
The World Summit Award is a global initiative for selecting and promoting the world's best electronic media and applications. It sees the bridging of the digital divide and narrowing of the "Content Gap" as its overall goal and, as of 2006, involves representatives from 168 countries on each...
in 2003 in the e-entertainment category and the Webby Award in the games category in 2003. In 2004, the site jayisgames.com commended Orisinal: Morning Sunshine for Outstanding Achievement in Artistic Expression in its Best of 2004 special awards. As of November 2010, Ferry Halim has begun selling a selection of his games on the Apple App Store in remade versions for the iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
.
Contents
Ferry Halim's games mostly contain small animals. The majority of the games are 'cute' and have beautiful outdoor backgrounds and relaxing, ambient music (some of which composed by Steven Cravis and several from Kimagure Orange RoadKimagure Orange Road
, usually abbreviated as KOR, is a popular shōnen romantic comedy manga and anime series from the 1980s.Written by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, it was later adapted into an anime series broadcast on Nippon Television, animated by Studio Pierrot and directed by...
), with few games involving fighting and battle. The games have been considered art game
Art game
An art game or arthouse game is a video game that is designed in such a way as to emphasize art or whose structure is intended to produce some kind of reaction in its audience. Art games typically go out of their way to have a unique, unconventional look, often standing out for aesthetic beauty or...
s.
The Orisinal website also includes an online store, guest book, desktop wallpaper, trailers and a special function that allows users to send and receive flowers custom-made via email services.
Orisinal is also known for having very strong protection over its Flash games that has kept them from being unlawfully copied onto other websites. According to Ferry Halim, the website is "his personal playground."
Game examples
- Winterbells - The player must steer a white rabbit up a winter night scape to earn points by leaping onto increasingly smaller white bells.
- The Way Home - The player must steer a squirrel across a cityscape, collecting food as they go.
- The Truth is Up There - To earn points, the player must keep a flying saucer within the viewfinder of a video camera.
- Apple Season - The player must try to catch as many apples as possible.
- The Crossing - The player controls a 'bridge' that moves back and forth to allow deer to cross.
- Sunny Day Sky - The player controls a small bear that flies using its umbrella, that must pass as many cars as possible and land perfectly.
- Carrot Track - This game includes a small rabbit which has to be led avoiding several puppies to gather carrots along the way.