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There are some games that just instantly capture you with their abundant charm. Sunny Day Sky is one of those games. Playing a cute little bear, your goal is to fly over cars on a highway by using your umbrella. If you miss and touch the ground, the game is over. Flying over cars increases your multiplier, and landing on cars gives you points. Incorporating a simple but engaging scoring scheme, one-button gameplay, and charming graphics and sound, it's the sort of browser game that easily draws you into its little world as you compete for the high score.

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Orisinal: Morning Sunshine is a website devoted to the very core of the principles behind casual gaming. With 59 tiny Flash-based games, there is something to please every palate, from the light shmup action of V-Force to the puzzle play of Bauns to the coordination challenges of Floats. Additionally, every game is illustrated with style, using subtle gradations and washes of color not typically seen in Flash titles, making each experience feel more rich and elegant.

Boiled down, the underlying gameplay element of each game is wonderfully simple and thoroughly addictive. And each can be imagined as having been the result of following a random idea, a "what if" scenario. It would seem, then, that there is no such thing as a bad idea for a casual game. How, then, does one determine when to expand an idea into something more complex?