Entries tagged “games”

Gamasutra has a nice long retrospective on Atari games.

You Have To Burn The Rope [Flash]. Sound up.

Chain Factor. Game.

Cursor*10, a short but challenging puzzle game [Flash]. Run your cursor up flights of stairs (click on stairs), then run the same sequence of time again using a second cursor that plays alongside the first. Some puzzles require cursors from previous plays to do the right thing to allow the later cursor to succeed.

Peggle, a new Mac game from PopCap that will most assuredly have you paying the $19.95 registration fee at the end of the free 60 minute demo. Despite a simple physics model, it's somewhat random, but stellar graphics, sound, music and good design make most random or otherwise unexpected behaviors very rewarding.

Syzygy, a fast-paced multiplayer crossword game. See videos. Really neat idea, makes me wish I had friends.

See also Bananagrams, Take Two!, Pick Two!, Double Quick!. (Thanks to a coworker.)

Bloxorz, a fun Flash-based puzzle game. 33 levels.

The Lemmings Story, a personal account of the history of the landmark computer game, Lemmings.

Original source code found for Colossal Cave Adventure, Wil Crowther's 1972 text adventure computer game. the FORTRAN source code accompanies an excellent article celebrating the anniversary of Adventure, which also includes photographs of the actual caves on which Adventure was based.

Adventure spawned dozens of remakes and extensions, but this is the first readily available copy of the original source code, long thought to be lost.

Nintendo announces homebrew game development kit for the Wii.