My cousin Ben emailed me over a good flash game last night. It’s not open source, but I thought I’d drop it in here. It’s called Escape the Red Giant (by ShinyShackGifts) and has a very unusual concept and is extremely addictive.
Escape the Red Giant opens on an asteroid. You are pulling the strings of a space man whose desire is to escape. to get thing started you press the up key which hoikes the astronaut out into the cosmos. As the the space man passes though space he passes asteroids. Once landed on a planet, you can use the left and right keys to move the character round the planet. By pressing the up key, the space man will launch into space once more. The more elaborately you can launch yourself off the planets, the better your score. while flying from planet to asteroid you have the opportunity to pick up countless goodies.