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Orisinal: Morning Sunshine is a collection of Flash games and related projects by Ferry Halim.[1]

Orisinal, also stylized as "OrisinAl"[2] or "Orisinal Games"[3], is a registered LLC under Halim's name that began October 25, 2000[4] as a website to showcase the creator's games and visual demos in Adobe Flash. About a year after the website's premiere, over a dozen visual demos were scrapped from the site, leaving a collection of only a select few games that Halim rebranded as the "Morning Sunshine" collection.[5] The collection continued to grow over the years and remained on Halim's personal website until December 2020, when Adobe Flash was discontinued. Halim contributed the graphics and programming for all games in the collection, and although some of the musical scores are credited to Steven Cravis,[6] Ernesto Cortazar,[7] and Mami Ishizuka,[8] Halim has admitted to taking some of the other music from random Japanese songs without attribution.[9]

At its peak, Morning Sunshine was one of the best known collections of Flash games on the Internet, with roughly 1 million visitors per month.[10] In 2003, it won a best-in-class Webby Award for "Websites and Mobile Sites - Games"[11] as well as a World Summit Award for its innovative design.[12] In 2004, it received an award for "outstanding achievement in artistic expression" from JayIsGames.com.[13]

Etymology

Born in Padang, Indonesia,[9] Ferry Halim is likely fluent in Indonesian and may have titled his website after the Indonesian word "orisinal", which means "original" in English.[14] This possibility is consistent with Halim's use of the tagline "nothing is original" in several of his custom wallpapers that were once available to download from the site.[15]

Games

Games in the Morning Sunshine collection are displayed in an interactive grid of square, desaturated icons that float and saturate during mouse-over.

OrisinalCollection

The Orisinal: Morning Sunshine collection, circa 2020



New games were added to the grid every few months until the last game was added in 2013. In the Orisinal games list below, titles are ordered according to their position in the interactive grid.

Orisinal: Morning Sunshine games list

# Icon Title banner Date
1 Apple Season Apple Season banner 2000a
2 Puzzler Puzzler banner * 2000a
3 Flight of the Season Flight of the Season banner 2000a
4 V-Force V-Force banner * 2000a
5 Silent Water (old)

Silent Water
Silent Water banner Feb 23, 2001b
6 Hold the Rope Hold the Rope banner Mar 30, 2001b
7 Penguin Panic Penguin Panic banner * 2000a
8 M-017 Metal Armor M-017 Metal Armor banner Mar 8, 2001b
9 Critical Zone Critical Zone banner Feb 8, 2001b
10 Milk the Cow Milk the Cow banner 2000a
11 Aim & Fire Aim & Fire banner * Mar 30, 2001b
12 Swordsman Swordsman banner Mar 30, 2001b
13 Among the Clouds Among the Clouds banner Jun 4, 2001b
14 Cranky Crabs Cranky Crabs banner Jul 6, 2001b
15 The Amazing Dare-Dozen The Amazing Dare-Dozen banner Mar 30, 2001b
16 The Truth Is Up There The Truth Is Up There banner Jul 28, 2001b
17 The Three Monkeys The Three Monkeys banner Feb 23, 2001b
18 Midnight Serenade Midnight Serenade banner Mar 8, 2001b
19 Snowbowling Snowbowling banner Feb 23, 2001b
20 Bubble Bees Bubble Bees banner Jun 16, 2001b
21 Chicken Wings Chicken Wings banner Sep 3, 2001b
22 Bum Bum Koala Bum Bum Koala banner Nov 2, 2001b
23 Hydrophobia Hydrophobia banner Nov 12, 2001b
24 Pocketful of Stars Pocketful of Stars banner Nov 25, 2001b
25 The Perilous Voyage The Perilous Voyage banner Mar 2002c
26 It Takes Two It Takes Two banner Mar 2002c
27 Bauns Bauns banner 2002d
28 What Comes Around What Comes Around banner 2002d
29 An Early Spring An Early Spring banner 2002d
30 The Snowrider The Snowrider banner 2002d
31 Windy Days Windy Days banner 2002d
32 Bungee Bear Bungee Bear banner 2002d
33 The Bottom of the Sea The Bottom of the Sea banner 2002d
34 Roperunner Roperunner banner 2002d
35 Fishball Fishball banner 2002d
36 A Cupid's Day A Cupid's Day banner 2002d
37 These Little Pigs These Little Pigs banner 2002d
38 Panda Run Panda Run banner 2003d
39 Hungry Spiders Hungry Spiders banner 2003d
40 Arctic Blue Arctic Blue banner Feb 2003d
41 The Pond The Pond banner Apr 9, 2003b
42 Friends Friends Always Stick Together banner Apr 17, 2003b
43 Rainmaker Rainmaker banner Jun 3, 2003b
44 The Runaway Train The Runaway Train banner Jun 18, 2003b
45 Firedragon Firedragon banner Jul 5, 2003b
46 Summer Walk Summer Walk banner Aug 1, 2003b
47 Cats Cats banner Sep 19, 2003b
48 Starry Night Starry Night banner Feb 18, 2004b
49 The Bird and the Sea The Bird and the Sea banner Mar 20, 2004e
50 Floats Floats banner Apr 20, 2004e
51 Wake Up Calls Wake Up Calls banner Jun 20, 2004e
52 Monkeyslide Monkeyslide banner Aug 24, 2004e
53 High Delivery High Delivery banner Oct 21, 2004e
54 A Daily Cup of Tea A Daily Cup of Tea banner Jan 28, 2005e
55 The Way Home A Way Home banner Apr 15, 2005e
56 A Dog for All Seasons A Dog for All Seasons banner Aug 8, 2005e
57 Bugs Bugs banner Nov 25, 2005e
58 Winterbells Winterbells banner Dec 9, 2006b
59 The Crossing The Crossing banner May 31, 2007b
60 Sunny Day Sky Sunny Day Sky banner Aug 19, 2008b
61 Drifting Afternoon Drifting Afternoon banner Nov 15, 2009b
62 Carrot Track Carrot Track banner Dec 11, 2010b
63 The Hatchings The Hatchings banner Dec 1, 2011b
64 Constellations Constellations banner Jan 19, 2012b
65 Casanova Casanova banner Oct 31, 2012b
66 Wings Over Water Wings Over Water banner Apr 19, 2013b

*Delisted sometime between November 2008 and November 2009.
Remastered sometime between November 2008 and November 2009.
aPre-dates the earliest archival capture of the site, which showed that all of these games pre-date a December 2000 demo.
[16]
bDate of the earliest archival capture of the site containing any mention of the game.
cDate of the earliest mention anywhere on the Internet.[17]
dDate reported by web domains registered since 1999[18] and 2006[19] but cannot be corroborated by any surviving information, due to a lack of archival captures until June 2003; however, an unsourced screenshot supports the notion that this segment of the list is ordered according to when the games were added,
[20] unlike previous segments.
eOfficial release date provided by Halim in a Flash-based news reel.[21]

Mobile ports

Several games from Orisinal: Morning Sunshine have been ported to Android or iOS.

App icon Title Platform Released
Winterbells App Store Icon Winterbells iOS Nov 20, 2010[22]
Sunny Day Sky App Store Icon Sunny Day Sky iOS

Android
Jan 5, 2011[23]

Dec 7, 2016[24][25]
Rainmaker App Store Icon Rainmaker iOS Jun 16, 2011[26]
The Hatchings App Store Icon The Hatchings iOS Nov 29, 2011[27]
Apple Season App Store Icon Apple Season iOS Apr 12, 2012[28]
Monkeyslide App Store Icon Monkeyslide iOS Jun 10, 2013[29]
Casanova App Store Icon Casanova iOS Mar 4, 2015[30]

Flight of Fire

Flight of Fire App Store Icon

Flight of Fire app icon

Flight of Fire is notable for being Ferry Halim's only game created in the style of Orisinal: Morning Sunshine to receive an iOS-exclusive release. Halim advertised the game in banners on the Orisinal: Morning Sunshine website, starting in late 2010.[31][32] The game was released November 1, 2010[33][34] and sold for $0.99 USD in the iOS App Store (App ID: 400047220).[33] On the in-game start screen, it is presented as a game by "AnotherCorner"[35], the name of a separate website Halim created just for the game.[36]

When it was still listed in the App Store, the app's description (grammatical errors included) read: [33][34]

Get ready for a blazing fast ride!

Flight of Fire is a fast speed action game sets in a faraway land. Fly on your magic carpet and blast the enemies off the night sky!

Gameplay

In Flight of Fire, the player takes control of an Arabian-clad cat wearing a turban.[37] Over a cityscape strewn with minarets, the cat rides a flying magic carpet through the night sky.[37] The objective of the game is to accumulate points by shooting streaks of fire at the incoming bat-like enemies and eliminating as many as possible before the timer reaches zero.[37] Bonus items, including energy, bombs, and shield power-ups, can be collected along the way.[38] Movement is controlled by tilting the device up or down, and attacks are triggered by tapping the screen.[38] Waiting longer to attack will result in a more powerful blast of fire.[38]

Current status

Flight of Fire has not been preserved in any known archives and may be lost forever.[39] If rediscovered, the game is theoretically playable on modern computers using the touchHLE emulator, which allows players to launch directly into iOS games without the hassle of configuring an emulated device.[40]

Gallery

Other projects

A "Miscellaneous" section appears at the bottom of the Morning Sunshine collection. Some of the icons in this section simply act as links to other pages of the website, but a few showcase other projects Halim created in Adobe Flash.

Icon Feature Notes
Online Store Online Store Originally linked to www.cafepress.com/orisinal where clocks, mugs, t-shirts, and tote bags with Orisinal characters could be purchased as late as May 2011; sometime later, the icon was redirected to another page of Halim's own site and replaced with a list of Android and iOS ports available for purchase
Flowers Flowers Flash application that allowed the user to pick flowers, stretch or rotate them, arrange them in a vase, choose a backdrop, and email the resulting image to a friend with a custom message
Guestbook Guestbook Flash application that was originally a cyberpunk-themed guestbook with minimal features; it was redesigned early in the site's history to accommodate more of the aesthetic themes from the Morning Sunshine collection, allowing visitors to dress-up Orisinal-style creatures and include them alongside the visitors' signed messages
OrisinalWallpapers Wallpapers Flash application that allowed the user to browse and download wallpapers created by Ferry Halim; it was present on the site as late as September 2009[41] but was delisted by December 2009[42]
Tell A Friend Tell a Friend This icon opens a pop-up window with a Flash application that will allow the user to email a link to Ferry Halim's website to a friend
Link Back Link Back This icon redirects to another webpage with a list of graphics for buttons or banners that users are allowed to host on their own websites in order to link to Ferry Halim's website
Rain Rain Flash application that displayed a photo of a Japanese shrine with poetry along the bottom of the screen and an infinitely repeating loop of animated rain with accompanying sound
Unknown2 kite Kite Seen in a screenshot from 2003,[43] this icon was delisted from the site sometime in the early-to-mid aughts, but based on an archived sitemap,[44] it appears to have linked to Halim's "Kite" demo, a minimalistic Flash application in which the user controls a hand that is holding the string of a kite and can perform two simple tricks
Trailer 2001 Trailer 2001 Animated Flash trailer that Halim produced in 2001 to showcase the Morning Sunshine collection
Unknown3 metallic Alphabets Seen in a screenshot from 2003,[43] this icon was delisted from the site sometime in the early-to-mid aughts, but based on an archived sitemap,[44] it appears to have linked to Halim's "Alphabets" Flash experiment, in which the text "watch the words coming out of your mouth" is followed by an endless stream of random letters shooting out of an abstract sculpture

Flowers

"Flowers" lets visitors arrange bouquets of flowers and email them to their friends with an attached message.


Guestbook

The guestbook allowed visitors to dress-up Orisinal-style creatures and include them alongside signed messages for other visitors to read.


Wallpapers

Ferry Halim created a collection of wallpaper designs that visitors could download. The feature was delisted from his site sometime between September and December of 2009.

Rain

"Rain" is a photo of a Japanese shrine with animated rain falling in a continuous loop. A soft guitar tune plays, and across the bottom of the screen, a poem reads, "I love the sound of the rain / Unfortunately it's not easy to hear it anymore / My apartment walls won't let me listen / So I just wait... and wait / And the rain would fall / And I will step outside to listen."

Rain


Trailer (2001)

Ferry Halim created a trailer for Orisinal in 2001, showcasing some of his earliest games.


Music

Although most games in the Orisinal: Morning Sunshine collection do not include credits for the music, there are a few exceptions:

  • Critical Zone
    • Music: "Critical Zone" by Steven Cravis
  • Bubble Bees
    • Music: "Through the Kaleidoscope" by Steven Cravis
  • Pocketful of Stars
    • Music: "想いの行方 / Omoi no Yukue" ("Whereabouts of Thoughts") by Mami Ishizuka
    • Note: This track was originally composed by Mami Ishizuka for the Japanese anime series Kimagure Orange Road (1984-1987) and was eventually released on one of the anime's many soundtrack albums, Madoka's Piano Files (1996), on which the song is falsely attributed to the anime's main protagonist, Madoka Ayukawa, as part of a marketing gimmick. This is why many online sources provide seemingly conflicting information about the song.
  • The Perilous Voyage
    • Music: "Mystical Myst" by Steven Cravis
  • Flowers
    • Music: "Our Love Never Dies" by Ernesto Cortazar

Ferry Halim has publicly admitted that many of his other games in the Morning Sunshine collection use uncredited Japanese songs.[9]

How to play without Flash

After Adobe Flash was deprecated from web browsers in December 2020, Ferry Halim's website became unusable for most visitors, and the site now displays a message that reads, "Unfortunately Flash Player is no longer supported after 2020." Even though the website is not working, there are still ways to access and play Orisinal: Morning Sunshine games without Flash:

Online solutions

Offline solutions

Screenshots

External links

References

  1. http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20010123220200/http://ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
  3. https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/privacy.html
  4. Public records show that the Orisinal.com web domain was first registered on October 25, 2000.
  5. Archival captures in the Wayback Machine show that the site was overhauled and had "Morning Sunshine" added to the header sometime between August 12, 2001 and October 17, 2001.
  6. Steven Cravis is credited for the in-game music on the starting screen of Critical Zone.
  7. See the credits screen from "Flowers".
  8. Mami Ishizuka is credited for the in-game music on the "game over" screen of Pocketful of Stars.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://b3ta.com/interview/ferryhalim/
  10. https://thefwa.com/interviews/interview-063-with-ferry-halim
  11. https://winners.webbyawards.com/2003/websites-and-mobile-sites/general-websites-and-mobile-sites/games/157410/orisinal
  12. https://wsa-global.org/winner/orisinal/
  13. https://jayisgames.com/best-of/2004/
  14. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/indonesian-english/orisinal
  15. See the "Wallpapers" section on this page.
  16. See Wayback Machine Jan-23-2001.png.
  17. https://www.magicaweb.com/2002/03/
  18. https://www.mobygames.com/person/330958/ferry-halim/credits/
  19. https://gameclassification.com/EN/search/index.html?search=orisinal
  20. See Orisinal2002-2003.jpg.
  21. https://web.archive.org/web/20060902151514/www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/sunshine/news.swf
  22. https://www.148apps.com/app/404410628/
  23. https://www.148apps.com/app/412796186/
  24. https://steprimo.com/android/us/app/com.orisinal.sunnydaysky/Sunny-Day-Sky/
  25. Consistent with the date given by Steprimo.com, the Wayback Machine shows that the Android port appeared on the Ferry Halim store page between November 19, 2016 and January 18, 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20170118171212/http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/store/
  26. https://www.148apps.com/app/443353331/
  27. https://www.148apps.com/app/478369265/
  28. https://www.148apps.com/app/516779573/
  29. https://www.148apps.com/app/580922138/
  30. https://www.148apps.com/app/969891979/
  31. https://web.archive.org/web/20101104105054/ferryhalim.com/ff/ad1.gif
  32. https://web.archive.org/web/20101104112653if_/http://ferryhalim.com/ff/ad2.gif
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 https://www.148apps.com/app/400047220/
  34. 34.0 34.1 https://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/flight-of-fire
  35. See the screenshot of the start screen in the "Flight of Fire" section of this article.
  36. https://web.archive.org/web/20100615000000*/anothercorner.com
  37. 37.0 37.1 37.2 https://www.mobygames.com/game/49480/flight-of-fire/
  38. 38.0 38.1 38.2 https://jayisgames.com/review/mobile-monday-98.php
  39. https://archive.org/details/@ios_classics
  40. https://touchhle.org
  41. https://web.archive.org/web/20090926233632/ferryhalim.com/orisinal/others/wall.htm
  42. https://web.archive.org/web/20091209080138/ferryhalim.com/orisinal/others/wall.htm
  43. 43.0 43.1 https://wsa-global.org/winner/orisinal/
  44. 44.0 44.1 https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal
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