Red Ball 2: The King 1.0

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2D platformers have been steadily getting ignored by the AAA gaming industry, leaving it up to indie developers to take up the mantle. However, the progenitor of indie games, flash games, have also gone really far in creating high quality 2d platformers. One of the best-known ones is the Red Ball series, a physics-based series where you just play as a red ball. Let's look at Red Ball 2: The King.

To play Red Ball 2: The King, simply run it with a Flash player of your choice.

The premise is that you play as a red ball who happens to be the king of a ball monarchy. His crown gets blown away in the beginning of the game and you help him locate it.

This game is deceptively simple. You control the ball with the arrow keys. The right and left arrow key will roll the ball left and right, the up key will make the ball jump, and the down key will force the ball's momentum down, either stopping any forward momentum or making it roll faster down a hill.

Each level's objective is also simple. Simply collect all the stars and get to the finish flag. What gives this game its complexity is the sandbox physics. Speedrunners have found a ton of tiny little tricks like buffering a jump to double its power by pausing the game and hitting the corner of a block and jumping to get a ton of height. This game is the definition of high skill ceiling.

All in all, however, Red Ball 2: The King is a great game that has some of the best sandbox physics in flash games around which gives it an insane skill ceiling.