MetaFilter posts tagged with Games and game

Artificial Intelligence?

flatluigi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:24:47 -0800

Hell is Other People "Fight the ghosts of those that have come before by moving in two dimensions and shooting missiles. The fiercer you fight, the harder it shall be for those that come after. How much past can you cope with before you are overwhelmed?"

Have fun storming the White House!

bardic — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:36:33 -0800

"Join in NOW and help Capture Obama and the renegade Cong. Defeat the Union Troops and other allies of the former President and help safeguard American Freedom. " It's the online survivalist game/wish fulfillment entitled "2011: Obama's Coup Fails" (via) Who wouldn't want to play with event like this one: "Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck Found Dead in Camp March 5, 2011 – Clark County, VA – A FEMA camp was liberated today, one of two still controlled by the war criminals loyal to Obama. Rush Limbaugh was executed over a week earlier, we are told, and Glenn Beck was found in his cell and has died, incredibly of an ‘aspirin overdose’, the preferred way to send a message to the enemies of Obama."

Hey, you taffers!

dunkadunc — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:19:21 -0800

The Dark Mod, a total conversion for Doom 3 in the spirit of Looking Glass Technology's Thief series, has finally been released after years (and more years) of development and is now available to download.

Anyone can make music.

empath — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:33:54 -0800

iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.

Panzers and air raids and artillery, oh my

XMLicious — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:54:43 -0800

World Wars 2, sequel to the hex-wargame-inspired World Wars, has been released. One MochiAd upon first load. They also did an election-themed version Battleground States 2008.

Remember that there is only one level.

Item — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:21:19 -0800

This is the only level in the game and you will die a lot.

This balladry makes me spoony

grobstein — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:27:15 -0800

Final Fantasy IV remix project. This week the videogame music rearrangement site, OCRemix.org, released a new project covering Nobuo Uematsu's soundtrack to FFIV (originally FFII in the US). FFIV's was the first game soundtrack I fell in love with, back in 2nd grade. Maybe you feel the same. The musicians have generally eschewed crowd-pleasing statements of the original's iconic themes, which is . . . bittersweet. Try

this cafe-vibe take on Rydia's theme,
this rhythmically fractured version of the sweet "Welcome to Our Town,"
"Into the Darkness" transposed and remade as "Step into the Light,"
or this slight, anti-triumphal take on the series's traditional victory fanfare.
And here is the "Theme of Love" made up as what sounds like classical guitar.

All FFIV remixes on OCR. All OCR album projects (I recommend the Street Fighter project, which was used for the soundtrack to the "new" game, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix).

Easier than Twister

furtive — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:06:47 -0800

The lying down game.

Fun shooting mentally ill people in straightjackets

XMLicious — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:00:04 -0800

Madness Combat Defense, an evolution of the tower defense game.

Casual? tower defense

juv3nal — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:21:18 -0800

Plants vs. Zombies is out. (Mac also). Demo available. $10 on Steam. Adorable promo music video. It has more minigames than you can shake a stick at including a reskinned bejewelled twist & insaniquarium. (in fact it is by the same designer behind insaniquarium). Unfortunately in-game music is not as cool as the promo video, but still a darned addictive game overall.

Hey little sister what have you done

Artw — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:27 -0800

There's something in the sea... and it has a big drill for an arm.

The German-style game

Artw — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:47:34 -0800

Monopoly killer - how The Settlers of Catan redefined board games.

Video Games, One Moment At A Time

flatluigi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:41 -0800

Moments _{A small blog by Mister Raroo}

Vintage Game Club plays Chrono Trigger

grobstein — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:53:20 -0800

Good morning, Crono! (Cf.) Starting this Friday, the Vintage Game Club will play through the RPG classic Chrono Trigger, a game beloved and praised but perhaps not well understood. The discussion is beginning here (little substance so far). (Chrono Trigger was published for SNES and Playstation, and is available in a new Nintendo DS port.) The Vintage Game Club is an online discussion group dedicated to playing through and understanding true classics of video games. It is a project of Professor Michael Abbott (great glossy-style profile) and Metafilter's own danb (and some other dudes). Chrono Trigger is the VGC's fifth game. You can find archived discussions for the first four on the forums:

Beyond Good and Evil (warning game has deceptive title)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey
Deus Ex (these discussions are really interesting; see e.g.)
Grim Fandango

Luna City Arcade

grobstein — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:37:05 -0800

Luna City Arcade is Peter Hirschberg's home / barn video arcade, with about 60 vintage machines all set up to eat quarters. WaPo story about Peter's dream. You can come around to Peter's Virginia home for Game Day every couple months. In addition to maintaining his own dinosaur machines, Peter writes some software -- usually clones of classic toys and games. His Battlezone clone Vector Tanks is coming soon to the iPhone for a couple dollars.

Evacuation

Rinku — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:38 -0800

Friday Flash Fun: Evacuation is a puzzle game about explosive decompression. Save the crew! Eject the aliens into space by opening the spaceship's doors! The catch: doors of the same color all open together. By the people that brought us Too Many Ninjas! Via the always excellent TGISource

Poison Shroom

juv3nal — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:16:10 -0800

RIP 1UP & EGM. 1UP.com produced some stellar gaming podcasts. Most of the staff responsible for those have now been laid off. Links to torrented archives and twitters to keep track of former 1UPers.

Everything you know about Alternate Reality Games is wrong

nthdegx — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:13:14 -0800

Everything you know about Alternate Reality Games is wrong

Air traffic control simulator

nthdegx — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:19:15 -0800

Push tin with ATC-SIM, an air traffic control simulator.

Nothing like an achievement to justify wasted time

graventy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:46:14 -0800

Achievement Unlocked: Posted a Flash Game on Friday.

Spot the 9 differences

Kattullus — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:09:41 -0800

Difference Games offers you 9 spot-the-difference games. The 3 categories are Graphic Novels and Comics, Play With Mum and Difference Xtreme! My favorite is The Dragon and the Wizard, which makes failure interesting.
Difference Games offers you 9 "spot the difference" games. The three categories are Graphic Novels & Comics; Play with Mum and Difference Xtreme! My favourite is The Dragon and the Wizard, which makes success interesting.

Dominos

Pants! — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:37:56 -0800

Even if you're aren't Dutch, you can still play with dominos.

puzzle shooter

jammy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:48:15 -0800

Fat Cat : a bit of friday flash fun

Roll 1d20 for save. 9 again? Heh, too bad.

loquacious — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:00:46 -0800

In a must-see interview for tabletop gamers everywhere, Colonel Louis Zocchi talks about modern mass produced plastic dice and why they utterly fail at being random: Part 1 - Part 2

Games that Never Existed

flatluigi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:13:59 -0800

The Loneliness Engine and other invisible games.