Microsoft Solitaire enters video game hall of fame
Included free of charge with Windows since 1990, Microsoft Solitaire has finally achieved immortality in the World Video Game Hall…
Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch
My friend Tom recommends Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch, a free project created by CutmanMike and Team MM8BDM who consist of…
One Hour One Life
Jason Rohrer’s One Hour One Life is a persistent shared world where you are born as a baby, aging one…
Artificial intelligence finds surprising solution to Q*bert
Artificial intelligence sometimes solves problems using solutions which surprise humans. I find this quality charming — menacing*, but charming. The…
Scrimish
Scrimish is “an epic 10 minute battle of strategy, memory, and misdirection.” Via Boing Boing, where Mark Frauenfelder has “heard…
The internal economics of a popular Minecraft server
Alice Maz writes about how she mastered the economics of Minecraft: I started on my server with only a rudimentary…
Carrion: you are the alien blob monster
This looks like fun: in Carrion, you play an alien blob monster, hunting and devouring humans in a failing space…
Stone Story RPG uses text-based animation
Stone Story is an RPG with clever text-based ascii animations, combining old-school visual style with current-day gameplay. From the developer:…
Hook
I have not played Hook, but it looks interesting: Via Rock Paper Shotgun: The idea is that each level gives…
MAME going open-source
Happy news for MAME developers. Gamasutra reports that MAME is going open source to be a “learning tool for developers.”…