The folks behind the “got milk?” campaign have done one of the most impressive Flash sites I have seen to date. Get The Glass is a board game done in Flash Video based on 3d-modeled artwork. The whole thing left me speechless. (EDIT: The site was created by North Kingdom. Great job guys!)

While you may be tempted to skip the intro, don’t it done really well, and is completely worth seeing. Once you get to the game, you roll a di to progress. I’m pretty sure the faces of the di are actually done in papervision. If so I think that is the first commercial use of papervision I’ve seen. The mechanism for throwing the di is pretty nice too. it bounces all over your browser like it was the board of a board game. (EDIT: according to a comment it probably isn’t papervision)

Games spaces on the board are divided into one of three categories, mastermind, fortune or misfortune. Fortune and misfortune just send you back and forwards spaces, but mastermind is a set of Cranium-like challenges like word search, trivia questions, fill in the missing letters of the word, and just a whole lot of well done micro-games. At various stages though there are bigger mini-game challenges that range from arcade to puzzle and some frantic sucking up to a PMS-ing crime mom.

Throughout the game you are followed by the police who if they capture you take you off to Milkatraz prison. Here is the REALLY interesting part. You have to make a choice. Lose a life, spin a wheel that either really helps or really hurts you. OR! you can get a friend to bail you out. Cough up a friend’s email address (which they have to respond to in under a few minutes) and you get out of jail. Don’t try this on your own machine though or it will wipe out your own game.

The whole game is beautifully designed, animated and constructed down to the icy hill that gives the cop a good chance to catch up.

If you know which studio built this, let me know. I want to shake their hands. (and thanks to Scott Schnaars for forwarding it to me!)