Rogess: chess with roguelike combat
Jonathan Lessard and Pippin Barr’s Rogess is a mashup of roguelike combat and chess, for two players (“mediocre AI available”…
The evolution of snooker video games
Boing Boing reports: Starting with a 1984 version of snooker (kind of like pool with more balls and smaller pockets)…
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…
Loot box legislation
Loot boxes are subject to legislation in some countries; other countries are debating legislation. What is a loot box? Wikipedia…
Bio-reactors: converting waste into food
Someone should make a game about this: Space scientists propose technology which converts human waste into food: … A Penn…
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…