MetaFilter posts tagged with game

You have survived another day!

catchingsignals — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:59 -0800

Elona Shooter - a fantastic castle-defence-shooter-RPG in Flash. Warning: insanely hard.

Now you're thinking with science.

hellojed — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:49 -0800

Ever wonder how the physics of Portal's portals worked? Or how Mario could walk on space rocks in Super Mario Galaxy? Games Demystified seeks to answer these pressing questions, with code samples and working demos. Currently a feature on the game industry blog Gamasutra, Games Demystified has also covered the rail-grinding of Final Fantasy: Dissidia and the physics of the iPhone game Rolando.

Bloodless war game

twoleftfeet — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:26:47 -0800

Oral histories indicate that slahal is an ancient game, dating to before the last ice age. At times discouraged, this gambling game is still being played. Also known as the bone game and the hand or stick game, the rules are simple: guess which hand holds the unmarked bone. But while your team tries to guess, the opposing team will confuse you with chants and drumming and music. And you do the same to them. An entire game can be quite loud and quite subtle. A short documentary.

Drench. It is a game.

thirteenkiller — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:21:23 -0800

Here is a simple game called Drench.

Radio radio

mudpuppie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:28:40 -0800

Please dismantling the Radio(?). your have only screwdriver. The tool you can use is the screwdriver. Japanese skill is NO need to slove this puzzle. Good luck. [Via JIG.]

It's Helvetica! I know this!

flatluigi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:39:14 -0800

TypeWar: How well do you know your fonts?

State of berkelium (Bk) at 0° C and 1 atmosphere of pressure

netbros — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:30:47 -0800

Knowledge Score is a general knowledge quiz game. Categories include Art, Astronomy, Food and Drink, Geography, History, Literature, Movies, Politics, Music, Economics, Languages, Sports, Math and more. If you want to try out Knowledge Score without registering, use the "Play as guest" feature.

A puzzle game without a single Sokoban level

you — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:47 -0800

Friday non-Flash Fun: Robozzle is a surprisingly deep puzzle game. If you don't want to install Silverlight, there's a Javascript version. Mge almost posted it six months ago.

Small Worlds

juv3nal — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:30:23 -0800

Small Worlds is an exploration game created by David Shute for JayisGames' Casual Gameplay Design Competition 6 (the theme this time around was "exploration"). It's short and there are no enemies to kill or items to pick up but it has faux pixelly gorgeousness and decently atmospheric music. Protip: the controls really don't like you hitting jump and moving sideways at the same time. To jump horizontally, first hit the jump key then hit the key to move sideways after. Bonus links: CGDC5 (theme: "Upgrade") CGDC4 (theme: "Ball Physics") CGDC3 (theme: "Replay") CGDC2 (theme: "Grow") CGDC1 (theme: "Puzzle")

Eroge for All Seasons

The Confessor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:09:28 -0800

Japan has a flourishing market for video games featuring adult content, or Eroge. Unfortunately, the sole exposure of some westerners to this wide genre may be through the controversy surrounding the irredeemably disgusting Rapelay (previously). That's a shame, because there is wide variation in content and gameplay focus in even the small subset of Eroge games translated and released for the western market by specialty publishers like Peach Princess and G-Collections. For every Rapelay or Water Closet (which should only be played if you wish to subsequently gouge out your eyes with a dull spoon), there are games like Amorous Professor Cherry, The Sagara Family, or Come See Me Tonight, which at least attempt a coherent narrative love story and usually reward empathetic behavior. Even these games are only more subtly misogynistic, unfortunately; the female characters are targets, first and foremost, as evidenced by the fact that the most difficult endings to obtain in each game feature unlikely sexual couplings of two or more of the female characters with the first-person narrator, which are known as "harems" in Eroge game parlance. Which brings me to my two final examples of Eroge, and the only two such games I've played thus far that I would recommend to a wide (mature) audience: Kana: Little Sister (for those concerned, no actual fictional blood relatives are banged in the course of gameplay), and Crescendo. Both are visual novels, include only a few mature scenes in the course of several hours of gameplay, and attempt to evoke complex emotions and leave a lasting impression on the player.

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."

Machinarium

brundlefly — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:32:15 -0800

Machinarium: a new game from the creators of Samorost 1 & 2.

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.

The Andy Rooney Game

LSK — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:49:53 -0800

Youtube user totallyjk has been posting a series of videos titled the "Andy Rooney game", in which everything but the first and last lines of an Andy Rooney segment from 60 Minutes is removed, often with amusing or touching results. A few other YouTubers have videos of the game, too.

Raise Thumb. Close One Eye. Squint.

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:01:27 -0800

The eyeballing game: compare your best attempts at several instinctive everyday tasks - determining a point of convergence, bisecting an angle, finding the midpoint of a line - against mathematical certainty. In a more financial mood? Play Chartgame: given a random historical stock chart of an unnamed S&P 500 company, choose to buy and sell as time advances to see if you can beat the market.

This is a three-er

tellurian — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:17:51 -0800

Conquerors 2009 “There are many underhanded ways of making your conker harder. The best is to pass it through a pig." World Conker Champion – Charlie Bray. The World Conker Championships are on this weekend. All the action from last year. previously [1] [2] In other news, a cure for bleeding canker has been found, with a welcome side effect, leaf miners don't like having garlic breath.

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

CrunchyFrog — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:48:35 -0800

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, the legendarily awful 3DO game, is now fully playable on YouTube. It is a (barely) "Interactive Romantic Comedy," whose main selling point is its "17+" rating for innuendo, language, and censored nudity. (Walkthrough inside) Walkthrough: He makes a first move! He plans a vigorous assault later on! The hairball takes advantage of the situation!! Our heroine declines the disgusting proposal! John heroically dashes off to save Jane!! Jane rejects the power. I want the Hollywood ending!! Or just watch the individual scenes in whatever order you want.

Clockwords

juv3nal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:29:27 -0800

Clockwords. Type words to destroy robotic insects intent on stealing your secrets. Fair warning: there's a pay-to-unlock-more-powerful-letters scheme buried in there, but the free content is still worthwhile IMO.

Which One Is the Original?

netbros — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:47:49 -0800

So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Take 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and redo them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. Instead, call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?

Strange Adventures in Infinite Space

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:55:22 -0800

Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is a game of space exploration that can be played in under twenty minutes. Its adjustable difficulty and random maps make it very replayable, and for the first time ever, it's completely free. PC and Mac versions are available. Plenty of user-made mods are available for download, as well as the full source code.

Hi, How Are You

DecemberBoy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:49:52 -0800

Hi, How Are You is a really fun iPhone game based on the music and art of Daniel Johnston. Imagine QBert crossed with Super Mario 64 and WarioWare Touched mixed together in a blender with Daniel Johnston, and you pretty much have it.

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.

Super chilly and super tough 2D flash biking game

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:15:09 -0800

Icycle is a flash game about a naked man, a bicycle, and the end of the world. Also death, lots and lots of death. Via Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Time Cfuk is a game about stasis

The Devil Tesla — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:03:15 -0800

Time Fcuk is a new game by Edmund McMillen and friends, its a "puzzle platformer" about perspective, its a community experience about communication with people who you dont like. When naming Time Fcku any combination of f, u, c, and k will do. (previously: 1, 2, 3)