So, you watched the movie Tron, and now you want to run your computerized guy off of the game grid and into the rest of the computer system? That's exactly what Daniel Wellman did on his Apple IIgs.
posted on Oct 8, 2008 - View this thread

Aether: lonely boy befriends a mysterious monster, leaves Earth to explore the galaxy. A quick, relaxing, hypnotic, motion-aftereffect-inducing flash game. Programming/music/design by Tyler Glaiel with further art/design by Edmund McMillen.
posted on Oct 7, 2008 - View this thread

Ludomancy: Storyteller, I wish I were the Moon, The Trials, and Night Raveler and the Heartbroken Uruguayans. Flash gameplay experiments by Daniel Benmergui. windows bonus: Stars over Half Moon Bay and The Marriage by Rod Humble
posted on Oct 3, 2008 - View this thread

What can one learn from the design choices of past games? John Harris discusses different game aspects, 20 games at a time, at Game Design Essentials. You can read on 20 Open World Games (where generally the player is left to his own devices to explore a large world), see your destroyed controllers in a new light with 20 Difficult Games or check out 20 Mysterious Games (that rely on algorithmically-generated content or emphasize secret-hunting), 20 Unusual Control Schemes and 20 Atari Games. What about roguelikes, you say?
posted on Sep 30, 2008 - View this thread

Now that the presidential debate is back on, it's time to prepare by selecting the most appropriate drinking game for tonight's debate.
posted on Sep 26, 2008 - View this thread

Find the Star, a third time Following on from this and this, here's a third installment.
posted on Sep 26, 2008 - View this thread

Most gamers have never heard of Braunstein. Sad but true. In the hierarchy of self-awareness you’ll find the circle of gamers who know what D&D is (a very, very large circle), then inside of that is the circle of gamers who know what Greyhawk is (large but smaller), and inside that the circle who knows what Blackmoor is (smaller still). And then in the very center, vanishingly small, are the people who’ve heard of Braunstein. Which is a pity, because Braunstein is the granddaddy of them all.

80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice.
posted on Sep 6, 2008 - View this thread

It's not often that a freeware game can truly be called a masterpiece but Daniel Remar has finally released Iji, an action platformer with touches of RPG, in which you control a female heroine with a whole lot of engineered superhuman abilities. What makes this game so good is the sheer of polish that has been put into the production and the large amount of choices there are to make. You can choose what abilities to level up with, whether or not to bother killing enemies and the path you take through each sprawling area, which can effect the outcome of the unfolding story.
posted on Sep 5, 2008 - View this thread

Friday Flash Fun — Boombot.
posted on Aug 29, 2008 - View this thread

mySQLgame. Naturally, it's an alpha build. [via]
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - View this thread

Place Spotting ― Try to solve this Google map quiz. In the upper part of the page you see a satellite picture. Drag and zoom the map in the lower part of the page until it shows the same location as the upper map. Here's how.
posted on Aug 16, 2008 - View this thread

Blocky 2. Simple kiddie game with cutesy graphics and annoying sound effects, or addictive puzzle with surprising depth and strategy? Both? Either way, I've played it too often; now it's your turn.
posted on Aug 15, 2008 - View this thread

Coign of Vantage is an unassuming, soothing kind of game - manipulate and move around a 3d cloud of pixels until they line up and melt into a simple image. Easy, zone-outtable, quite addictive.
posted on Aug 14, 2008 - View this thread

Superstruct: An alternate reality game of future survival from the woman who brought you I Love Bees. Starting soon.
posted on Aug 14, 2008 - View this thread

Can you guess these movies from just one letter of the poster? Empire has put together a little quiz to test your movie font knowledge. Guess the movies from just one letter in the film's poster title. Via Neatorama
posted on Aug 11, 2008 - View this thread

levelHead is a spacial memory game by artist Julian Oliver, using a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors through which you guide your character. Take a look at a demonstration or build your own levelHead setup.
posted on Aug 10, 2008 - View this thread

The Tombs of Asciiroth : A puzzle/adventure game you can play in your browser
posted on Aug 8, 2008 - View this thread

Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper is a new independent game from the brilliant creator of Crayon Physics.
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - View this thread

Can you guess where my accent is from? A flash game from the Language Trainers' Group -- listen to lines of poetry recited by people from different countries and try to guess their origin.
posted on Aug 3, 2008 - View this thread

Transcendence, the outer space exploration/trading/shoot 'em up, has hit version .99. I cannot begin to tell you how much time I sunk into previous releases -- the Nethackish randomness, both in the layout of the systems to explore, and the mysterious devices and substances to apply to your ship in hope of an extra edge, makes the replay value immense. RGCD has a glowing review and an interview with the developer. (Mentioned but not actually linked to earlier.)
posted on Jul 30, 2008 - View this thread

Sushi Go Round - a sushi serving game.
posted on Jul 24, 2008 - View this thread

Flash Sunday: Customize your disease and wipe out the population, Pandemic II. Get to Madagascar before they close their shipyard!
posted on Jul 20, 2008 - View this thread

Totem Destroyer ... a puzzle game where you strategically remove blocks in order to lower a golden idol closer to the ground. Get it within 3 squares from the bottom, but not touching it, and you move on to the next level. (via)
posted on Jul 18, 2008 - View this thread

Defender of the Favicon -- I've never played a game inside a favicon before. Until today. Works in Firefox and Opera.
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - View this thread

Happy Birthday, MeFi, here's a fun free* game! Ikariam is sort of like a Skyrates version of Civ, with the real-time MMO combat and diplomacy that might bring to mind. Also, it's set in Olympian Greece, but only kind-of. Enjoy! *Batteries not included. Some registration required. Suggested age: 8-and-up. Some implied violence and consumption of alcohol (wine). Expansion materials may be purchased but are not necessary to enjoy the game and are, by the judgment of this MFGA (MetaFilter Gaming Authority) member: "some kind of bullshit."
posted on Jul 14, 2008 - View this thread

[SO VERY NSFW] Fake or Not? The site will show you ten pictures of boobies, a pair at a time. You must determine whether or not they are augmented. Wes Cherry, creator of Solitaire for Windows, aptly cites it as one of his three favorite websites. [via memepool]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - View this thread

Rental Car Rally. (From the guys who brought Street Wars to NYC). That is all.
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - View this thread

Eric Lieber, producer of the groundbreaking Dick Cavett and Mike Douglas talk shows as well as the creator of (my own beloved guilty pleasure) Love Connection, has passed away of leukemia at age 71.
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - View this thread

Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam ... The year is 1897. For five long years Europe has been ravaged by Baron Battenberg's Steam powered war machines. Led by Great Britain, a handful of defiant countries remain free of the Baron's tyrannical rule. But time is running out for them as his forces grow stronger every day. As dawn breaks high above the Atlantic, a tiny airship arrives at its secret destination. Onboard, Britain's greatest explorer, spy, and master of esoteric fighting arts readies to strike at the heart of the Baron's empire!
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - View this thread

Phyta. Downloadable (windows, linux) interactive thing. (via PlayThisThing)
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - View this thread

Toronto Game Jam posts the entries and winners of their 2008 Competition.
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - View this thread

Casual Collective has been linked before[Previously, and Previously-er], but they have some more recent, well-crafted games.
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - View this thread

Crates are falling out of the sky. Push them off the platform. Keep doing it until one of them crushes you. Which it will. Soon.
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - View this thread

"I’m Charlie Cappa floating through his nightclub in a sharp Italian suit in MEAN STREETS, Henry Hill being lead through the back door of the Copacabana to a table right in front of the stage in GOODFELLAS, or Ace Rothstein at the dead center of the frame as he walks through the Tangiers in CASINO. I’m also Michael Barnes and I am walking through Atlanta Game Factory on a summer day three years ago. Imagine the Ronettes or the Rolling Stones on the soundtrack and you’ve got a pretty good picture of what it felt like to walk into AGF at the peak of its powers. All my life I wanted to be a game store owner." Gameshark has just posted the tenth and final installment of the strange saga of the rise and fall of the Atlanta Game Factory.
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - View this thread

Flash friday late night thursday fun: Hedgehog Launch
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - View this thread

Cute quiz: Name the Simpsons characters. Also: US states, countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, periodic table of elements. More.
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - View this thread

Flash Friday: If you enjoyed GemCraft (recently posted by juv3nal), you'll want to stop by towerdefence.net, catering to all of your tower defense needs. With a hundred Flash games and ten downloadable ones, you're sure to find something you like.
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - View this thread

FridayFun: This game is absolutely ridiculous, but you'll enjoy it anyway! (Via)
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - View this thread

Shockwave Friday Fun - Tank Ball 2. (previously)
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - View this thread

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! A "board game" where you gather a gang of girls in the roaring 20s and taunt, fib, & flirt your way to high school domination!
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - View this thread

Will Wright's Spore creature creator free trial, mac and PC. Video demo.
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - View this thread

GemCraft Flash Tower Defense goodness. Neat little rpg/upgrading touches in between maps. Lots of maps with some epic bosses thrown in every once in a while.
posted on Jun 14, 2008 - View this thread

Tetris has changed over the years. The latest game mechanics are well-documented and allow for techniques more complicated than those of us used to earlier iterations could possibly imagine. And of course, you can have it any way you want it. [via]
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - View this thread

Starshine - catch the stars with your comet by clicking on the centres of gravity at the right times. Short, relaxing, charming Flash game.
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - View this thread

Epsilon. A flash puzzle game with portals, time & gravity manipulation. (via JiG)
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - View this thread

Fearless Fightin' Flash Fun for Friday: Robokill is a demo that recalls the overhead action of SMASH TV - though this time, you're placed in the metal shoes of a lowly salvage bot, sent to decimate your mechanical brethren who commandeered an orbital outpost. As you clear the halls for the benefit of some lazy humans, you can trade supplies and armaments with an alien merchant who mistakes you for one of Earth's fleshbags. It's a thankless job, sure, but you're supposed to be a remorseless machine...[via]
posted on May 30, 2008 - View this thread

6 Differences is an extremely simple and oddly soothing Flash game with nice background music.
posted on May 30, 2008 - View this thread

The Japanese master intercultural stereotyping. Is it racist when non-whites do blackface?
posted on May 25, 2008 - View this thread

In 1989, Lieutenant William “Mad Dog” Rizer was called before the Senate Military Investigations Committee to discuss his statements regarding the effectiveness of military operations in response to the Red Falcon invasion of the previous year. The following is a transcript of his testimony before Congress. The Contra Hearings.
posted on May 23, 2008 - View this thread