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sixteen things tagged “games

Sky Force: Reloaded

Sky Force: Reloaded

by iDreamz

I installed this game in May 2018 and finally beat it seven years later in June 2023. I wish I could somehow figure out the amount of time I’ve spent trying to beat this exquisitely-made scrolling shooter, for it would be the amount of time I’ve spent on planes, in Ubers, sick and bedridden, or just…

Robert Wardhaugh is a Professor of History in Canada who’s run a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign for 40 years.

I know nothing of D&D, wanted to find out more after watching the latest season of Stranger Things, and came by this video. I still don’t understand how the figurines contribute to the gameplay but was amazed by his vast collection of them. Lots of lovely passion and camaraderie here ♥️ Here’s t…

Adventuron is a framework that lets you create old-school Text Adventure games for a browser

Here’s a giant list of games people have created with it. Here’s a teeny little introductory adventure. I plan on playing The Quest of DuBebe this evening:…

Super Mario Songs

Koji Kondo is a “sound designer” who composed music for Super Mario Bros. He was inspired by these songs. Music Artist Song The Main “Overworld” Theme T-Square Sister Marian (3:08) When you go down the Warp Pipes Friendship Let’s not talk about it When you get a Star Piper Summe…

The Chrome Dino

Here’s a fairly recent (Dec 2018) interview with the creators of chrome://dino. It was called Project Bolan (which I had to look up), had 270M games played every month1, with most users coming “from markets with unreliable or expensive mobile data, like India, Brazil, Mexico, or Indonesia” and took…

“I have to do this.”

I made a bet at work that involved me eating my Crocs (if I lost, of course), prompting my co-worker to send me this story about Eric Taylor, a “former Magic: The Gathering player and highly regarded Magic columnist, especially during the earlier days of the game” (MTG Wiki), who made a similarly ha…

Kids

Kids

by Various

CK and I loved this short and strange and beautiful ‘game’ by artist Michael Frei and developer Mario van Rickenbach. There’s even an art exhibition. I don’t know. Take it for what it is.…

Art Plunge

Art Plunge

by Space Plunge

Well-worth the $2 you’ll spend on it. Don’t look behind you if you have major vertigo or megalophobia. “The Creation of Adam” was hair-raising. The Vermeer was just so beautiful 💯…

Coin Sound

This is lovely. More here.…

Frost

Frost

by kunabi brother

Developer site. A beautiful meditation that’s just the right length. Reminded me of “Osmos”, an all-time favorite. Won an Apple Design Award on 2018 (with “Florence”.)…

Florence

Florence

by Mountains

Beautiful, astoundingly well-crafted, painfully short work of interactive art.…

Gandhi the Annihilator

At least in Civilization: [. . .] Gandhi tends to be the first to use nuclear weapons, and spares no expense on wiping your civilization off the map. You probably always thought you were crazy — how could a series that prides itself on historical accuracy portray Gandhi so wrong? Well, you’ll be ha…

Starman

Starman

by Nada Studios

Brooding and wonderful stuff by the brothers Jacobo and Sergio Abril of Nada Studios (who are architects.)…

Prune

Prune

by Joel McDonald

Three years late but what an absolutely beautiful game! “One of my main goals when designing ‘Prune’ was to respect the player’s intelligence and to respect their time, whether that player is 4 or 74,” McDonald said. “So much of the mobile game market just does not do this incredibly simple thing o…