u/MaterialScarcity845

I'm trying to remember the name of this site, or even the name of one or more of the games, as I used to kill time with them around 1999-2003. It seems to have been reasonably popular, but it wasn't a big public submission or aggregator site like Newgrounds or eBaum's. It was run by a single person (or maybe two) who was obviously an established artist whose style was very soft, using pastel and muted colors and portraying subjects such as small animals and children usually in rural/forest settings. Think storybook illustrations. The games themselves were simple with a moderate difficulty level, with soothing music, mostly designed for calming repetition. The games I can clearly recall are:

-An object catching game in which you control a character holding a basket that you move side-to-side to catch falling apples (very generic, I know, but I probably played this one the most).

-A game in which you control a little girl who is mirrored upside-down along a horizontal line across the middle of the play field. Clicking the mouse button would make your character jump, and when she landed, her mirror-self would be propelled downward with the goal of having the mirror catch stars on each jump. If that makes sense, at all - I might be misremembering small details. I feel like this game was named "Catch a Falling Star", but I'm not sure.

The artist also ran a small merch operation attached to the site, and I feel like there were other sections beyond the games, like this site functioned as an interactive portfolio or something.

Any help appreciated!

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u/MaterialScarcity845 — 13 days ago