MetaFilter posts tagged with videogames 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?"

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).

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.

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.

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.

Air traffic control simulator

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

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

If we all choose world "My" we can play together! Happy birthday!

Navelgazer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:41:57 -0800

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."

Harpooned: Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator

nthdegx — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:46:00 -0800

Harpooned: Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator Or Whale-hunting shmup, in other words. Shock as consciousness-raiser, is the general idea.

M.U.G.E.N: The 2D Fighting Game Engine

milquetoast — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:34:31 -0800

M.U.G.E.N [wikipedia] is a 2D fighting game engine, originally developed by Elecbyte and released in 1999. The engine is highly customizable; characters, backgrounds, and sound files -- whether from existing games or original works -- can be easily integrated. Some examples of the engine in action [youtube]: Homer Simpson vs. Peter Griffin, Ryu vs Popeye, Green Power Ranger vs Osama Bin Laden, Fat Albert vs Juggernaut, Marvin the Martian vs. Duck Dodgers. Also, game crossovers: Homer in NES Land, Thunder Force III vs. Duck Hunt. [mi] WARNING: some of the videos are very loud.

Dove of Brutality!

thirteenkiller — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:00:47 -0800

Bible Fight [Flash game]

Super Columbine RPG controversy continues

jcruelty — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:35:19 -0800

Super Columbine Massacre RPG (previously discussed here) has been dropped from the Slamdance games festival, after being selected as a finalist by the jury. The festival's organizer cites "moral obligations." In response, at least 6 of the 14 other finalists and one of the festival's sponsors have withdrawn in protest. Ongoing coverage can be found at watercoolergames (1 2). Art games and game arts are proliferating in the videogame era. For those with an interest in this subject, the beautiful new Italian volume GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames is a must-read.

Is there a physicist in the house?

loquacious — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:21:15 -0800

Fun Motion - a blog dedicated to physics-simulating games, currently with 49 reviews (and counting) of well known favorites like Stair Dismount and Truck Dismount, Towers of Goo, Toribash and many, many more. (A follow up to my previous YouTube post.) Kiss your precious, fleeting motes of productivity goodbye, cube-farmers!

Games by Tony Pa

boo_radley — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:26:32 -0800

Games by Tony Pa. jayisgames just reviewed tony pa's new flash game, Geartaker. Geartaker has you leaping from cog to wheel to gear in a precise ballet of timing and angles, completed by an eclectic, interactive retro-synth soundtrack. After a good 30 minutes of that, I explored Tony's site more thoroughly, enjoying Trinks, Nelinurk (haunting soundtracks both), the othello like simplicity and complexity of Shooot. There's also the fiendish puzzler Gemsmith, the shocking anti-consumerist geometry of Save the Shoppers, and the fun is rounded out by the tiny retrolicious BoatRider. Unfortunately, there are no links straight to the games, and trying to link to them directly results in getting redirected to the home page. Suffer through the start page, and you'll be rewarded with a treasure trove of novel and engaging flash entertainment.

ZIDANE ZIDANE ZIDANE

jcruelty — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:18:35 -0800

NES Zidane A fairly accurate recreation of the World Cup final. Also, ze headbutt explained.

happy fun vacuum time

boo_radley — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:51:30 -0800

This game sucks. Courtesy of the experimental gameplay project.

GO WEST EAT DOT GO WEST EAT DOT

boo_radley — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:59:54 -0800

DotQuest Can you survive the deadly ghosts in this text adventure? via languagehat's blog in an oblique fashion.

Concerned (Half-Life 2 comic)

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:09:17 -0800

Concerned (Half-Life 2 comic)

Good enough to cease 'n' disist

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:37:57 -0800

Mario Adventure - SMB3 hacked into an entirely new high-quality game

Project Entropia

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:44:31 -0800

Man spends $100k on imaginary nightclub to tax those who hunt its native dinosaurs. Man is likely to make a profit. <bgsound>

DJ Format featuring Abdominal & D-sisive

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:56:42 -0800

Witness the Whiteness as borderline-albino Canadian nerdcore MCs kick it Konami-school [Windows Media/Quicktime; more]

xoc - SMW

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:46:03 -0800

SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.

Saaay, aren't you?

Smedleyman — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:59:06 -0800

I always thought Bruce Campbell would be perfect to play the guy from Doom. And yeah, Howie Long is a dead ringer for Duke Nukem. But looking at how much Mr. T looks like Barrett from Final Fantasy 7 and Winona Ryder looks like Vice from King of Fighters I have to wonder how much of this is on purpose? Of course there are the exceptions.

It's Pac-Man's 25th birthday

kingmissile — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:19:08 -0800

It's Pac-Man's 25th birthday and it's quite clear that some obsessed fans out there are much happier about it than other extremely obsessed pac-players. Maybe that guy needs to unwind for a bit?