I know trying to find a missing Flash game is a long shot, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
This was a game that I played in 2005-2008. (Actually 2000-2003, sorry. My math was bad.) I think it was called Elephant's Paintbrush, but I can't remember for sure. It was about an elephant trying to find his missing paintbrush.
The game was a point and click style. Each screen allowed the player travel between multiple landmarks. The game's art style was minimalist, with white backgrounds, so it was easy to see where to go. On each screen, a thought bubble would appear above the elephant's head, with the text "I want to find my paintbrush," or something to that effect.
I was never able to complete the game. After about four or five screens, I would end up in a monster's mouth. There was nowhere else to click on, and the game wouldn't end. It was too cartoony to be creepy. I would always click out of the game, confused.
Here's the weird bit: I am fairly certain the game was available on Disney.com, despite the fact it didn't seem to represent any show or movie. At the time, I didn't know of many websites. None of them could play games. Disney was one of my favourites, so I would play there often.
Has anyone else played this? Feel free to pick my brain for more details.
The swf file might still be out there somewhere. I found some House of Mouse rips, so I know it was possible to rip Disney's games.
Last Edit: May 31, 2017 22:57:42 GMT by senshisun: Was moved to the correct category. Thanks!
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If you remember it on the disney website, I suggest using the wayback machine and oldweb.today as archive sites to look for the game or games similar to it.
I can't seem to access the "Kid's Island", the area I'm pretty sure the game was on. It's been taken down. I definitely remember an island-shaped map housing this game and others. One of the others was Mikey and Minnie's Safe Internet Adventure, where Mickey and Minnie taught internet safety things that I wouldn't use until years later. Another was a game where you made characters from Out of the Box dance.
Here is the closest I've come on the Wayback Machine: disney.go.com/kids/today/index.html I can't find any screenshots of what the website looked like.
I found and remember playing all of the games listed in this article, but I think they were made a few years after this.
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I got Kid's Island to work. None of the links go anywhere, but it looks and sounds just like it used to.
I'm noticing two listings on the Toontown building (Games). One is Disney's Games Cafe, with an icon that looks like Bejeweled, and the other is Free Mini Games, with an icon of a hockey puck with a face.
Last Edit: Sept 17, 2017 20:34:33 GMT by senshisun
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igrezadecu.com/hot-shot-business/ Oh! One of the pics on kid island showed this game on this website dumped. I think you could possibly find elephant paint brush! However, from your description of the game, it just kinda sounds like a game from the site scratch.
Man, that's wild. I remember playing Hot Shot when I was little. I would always choose the dog spa.
What do you mean by "a game from the site scratch"?
Edit: A game from the website Scratch. I don't remember that at all, but I'll take a look.
I found another link by guessing the correct URL and scrolling forward in the timeline until the site loaded properly. Because Disney's website links are 90% redirects, it took a painfully long time. The correct link is disney.go.com/games/today/index.html
Load it from the web archive's main page.
From there, I was able to find disney.go.com/games/hockey/index.html which is the page for a hockey game that immediately downloads itself onto my computer. It's called "hocky.dcr".
disney.go.com/games/hotshot/hsb.html is the link for Hot Shot Business, the game @luvdisc123 linked to earlier. The actual page was never backed up.
disney.go.com/games/dtoys/index.html links to "cool gizmos". These "gizmos" are 5 simple, mildly educational games. The links to the game pages themselves are redirected.
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I decided to see if I could find some more old links for games. If I found a pattern in URL names, I could guess the right URL.
disney.go.com/games/sharkcave/index.html is for Ariel's Shark Cave, which tells me I should have Shockwave installed. I don't know if I can get around that error.
The hockey game is called Airhead Hockey.
Toontown is toontown.station.sony.com and I didn't realize other companies had involvement in it. (Then again, when I was a kid, I wasn't looking out for branding in the first place. If I was, I wouldn't have this problem.)
All of the links I can see have some start of transfer code at the start of them. The URL I'm looking at is at the end of a long string of technical commands that I don't understand. That might explain why I end up with all of these odd redirect problems.
Trying to "explore disney.go.com urls" brings up "no matching URLs", with a little "searching for urls". I thought this meant it couldn't find anything until I went to dig around somewhere else for a little bit, came back to the page, and it had loaded over one hundred thousand! Jackpot!
Searching for "paint" brings up a bunch of paint centres.
I also decided to check Scratch. While the styles of many games do look similar, it's far too new to be related. Addicting Games doesn't seem to have it either. Funbrain has a bouncy animation style and bright colours that don't fit what I remember.
Maybe I should try asking around the interwebs.
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I suppose the best way to proceed would be to contact somebody at Disney. They do have a contact option. However, odds are they'll tell me they don't know anything. I could try finding somebody who might have been involved in this at the time.
Another option would be looking at fan sites and forums, both modern and from the time, to see what the remember.
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There isn't much content related to Disney websites themselves, and nobody responds to my posts about the old Disney website. I have no idea what to do.
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I haven't found anything useful in the past couple of years. My latest search did come up with a Little Golden Book adaptation of The Very Saggy Elephant, which had flatter colours. I played several other interactive books, and would have been able to tell the difference between a book and a point and click game.
I don't think it's a Disney property anymore, but it would have been on a relatively major website.
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