MetaFilter posts tagged with achievements

He Too

Skeptic — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:54:52 -0800

Pablo Pineda holds a teacher diploma and a BA in educational psychology. He also recently won a Best Actor Award in the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his role in the semi-autobiographical film "Yo También" ("Me Too"). He has Down's Syndrome.

If you think the game looks crappy, you should try upgrading the game graphics!

Nelson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:19:54 -0800

Upgrade Complete is an engrossing Flash game that marries classic shoot-em-up gameplay to unprecedented flexibility in ship design and an innovative UI re-skinning system. Drawing from the same well as previously discussed game Achievement Unlocked, this arcade shooter maximizes familiar game design tropes to keep the player occupied for literally minutes. Do you have what it takes to get through 100% progress and unlock the (spoiler alert!) secret best ending? Via Play This Thing, the blog of the late lamented indie game publisher Man!festo games.

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.

Yahoo's new BravoNation

riffola — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:53:44 -0800

Yahoo's new BravoNation brings Xbox Live type achievements to the world outside of gaming. You can send or receive homemade awards from any user. They are banking on third party sites using their API to hand out bravo awards to people for doing various things. Our own waxpancake has the exclusive first look.

quirked — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 06:46:23 -0800

Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors from The Brookings Institution. Rebuilding Europe After World War II and Expanding the Right to Vote are number 1 and 2 respectively. Do we give our Government enough credit or should this be compared to a list of Government's 50 greatest boondoggles?