Free Online Games!

I like to play merge games on my computers, and recently I got hooked on the Arrows game on my phone. I found a version for Windows in the Microsoft Store, but when I searched for such a game on Garuda, I found nothing, so I searched the Crazy Games website and found exactly what I want. If you want to play a game that you can’t find elsewhere, look there.

On Garuda (KDE Plasma desktop), I edit the Applications menu on the panel (Keeping my web browser open so I can get the game’s URL later):

ALT+Click the Applications menu icon
Click ‘Edit Applications’ in the context menu
Navigate to the Games sub-menu and ALT+Click, then choose New item
In the resulting pop-up dialog, enter the name of your game and click the OK button.
In the resulting game item, for the Program field, enter the name of your web browser.
For the Command-line Arguments field,enter the URL to your game from your web browser.

To customize your new game entry (keeping the Edit Applications dialog open), you can search for an appropriate icon image on the Internet (PNG or SVG image) and save it to your Pictures directory.

Back in your games entry, click the square box (upper-right).
In the resulting Select icon dialog, Click the Browse item (bottom)
Navigate to your Pictures directory and choose your new icon image.
Click Save (upper-right) then close the dialog.

You can now launch your on-line game from your Applications menu,

Ernie

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What are the security issues with online games?
Do they open ports?
Do they use cookies?

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I’ve signed into Crazy Games, so any game I run from them keeps my progress for future sessions. AFAIK, the games may use cookies, but the only way my progress has been saved has been after I sign in. Since the game runs in my web browser, I have no idea what security issues may be encountered, depending on how concerned you are about privacy, but in my experience, they only keep what they need to provide the games. I’ve seen no evidence of ad-tracking, or anything like that, and they never asked for my credit card or anything either.

Everything I’ve learned about them is at their corporate website, so you can check it out for yourself.

Ernie

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