As a lifelong devotee of art, music, and literature, some find it strange that the thought of Lincoln Center, SoHo, and dramatic black and white photo shoots, fills me with nausea, dark brooding cityscapes excepted.
They must be bypassed. Keats' Grecian Urn will dock with the Nanobot Mothership when a Flash-speckled, moon-flecked firmament shrieks at each star-tablet.
Pope's light militia of the lower sky will synergize with Augmented Reality.
Screencapture is from FlashFridge.com.
A gothic urban scape, where the underworld interposes itself upon the tumbling clouds, where the nether realms spin the garish mist, where ruffians and ghasts share the same drag racing strips.
It is time for the eremite once more to rise from the grotto and wander the mazy lanes and avenues. The denizens of the caves, the ether, and the concrete grid need a berserk leader to unify the guilds and the loose sinuous associations.
Screenshot is from the introductory movie to The Coke Zero Game.
The Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games at boardgamegeek.com
Donald Seagraves did all the work, and we have not tried even one of these game yet, but we definitely believe and trust a friend who insists that this list will make it possible to never have to visit Toys R Us or Wal-Mart, a comic book store, or anywhere else for that matter, for cool boardgames again. We are sold on this prospect and are currently browsing the lists from this meta-list for the best sounding ones.
Happy gaming.
The photo is of counters from Demonlord, The Epic Game of Sorcery and Conquest.
There seems to be no end to the line of cool games, gadgets, music, and, of course, beverages, being churned out by the Coca Cola Happiness Factory. And, additionally, Coca Cola is not like McDonalds or Thanksgiving: childhood dreamstates that lose their innocence after their murderous nature is realized.
Coca Cola is ringed by a mass media halo. Guiltless indulgence. Joy.
I am supposed to be focused on browsing Flash developers, but agencynet had the nerve to place an enticing word search on their Capabilities page. Now, I am fully aware of their eBranding, microsite-development, and advergame abilities, but I have just wasted several minutes solving their puzzle, which is a fine example of interactive eBranding, by the way.
And, apparently they know talent when they see it, since they said that I should consider working there. Quite delightful, but, at this moment, I am much more interested in finding a skilled Flash development team than becoming a part of one.
Levitated.net's Invader Fractal would have been a useful tool for early video game design, and, in a MOMA Digital Installation-kind-of-way, is a quirky game-like experience in and of itself, although I dread that critics from The New Yorker would expound more on what statement about viruses, xenophobic anxiety, and the asymmetry of modern society, the artist was trying to express than about the sheer fun imparted to gamers.
The underlying game engine is actually a 'region of space filled recursively with 15 bit combinatoric objects affectionately called Invaders', which is another way of saying that Hercules is fighting the Hydra.
It was a tough call, but we are separating the game engine from the game theme here in order to both support and oppose it. It is light-fun to play, and delightful to ogle at, but we imagine that raw almond butter is being sought instead of milk.
We made a dairy exception in order to feature the Rankin-Bass of modern flash games, but we would not have featured this game if it were about a family in search of their secreted steak dinner, or even omelet, for that matter.
Just milk...this time...barely! ;)
The stuttering staggering lateral steps, the lurching, loping quest toward the Tron-geek singularity:
It is truly a new age
Screenshot is of the Science Fiction room by sciencefictioncomputer
I remember reading about this website on a best-of list several years ago. I sampled just about every game and found them delightful, but particularly enjoyed Cats. Haven't returned since, though I made a few half-hearted and unsuccessful efforts to locate the site. You'd think I would just search 'orisinal' on Google, but, for inexplicable reasons, I didn't think of it at the times!
But, the good news is the site is still up and all its games are still playable. As a matter of fact, it doesn't look like anything has been changed on the site at all since my last visit circa 2004. Relocated, refound, and renoticed for rediscovery.
Anyway, check out Cats.
Also, Pocketful of Stars is charming and dreamy-cosmic whereas V Force is a slow-reacting, vertical scrolling, spaceship shooter.
Screenshot is from the game Cats.
If anyone cares to try:
dkm software's Sudoku Online
Puzzle number: 58244723
Difficulty level: Supreme
I solved this puzzle with no penciling in of possible values, but rather, with nothing but mental imaginings.
Did several others at the Supreme difficulty level in this challenging fashion just prior to solving this one, but didn't think to notice game number or to get screenshot.
Just starting to play sudoku, btw. Kind of avoided it for a while.
Affected meteoric rise from absolute novice puzzles to difficult ones, now solved with no penciling in of possibilities and no use of other mind-alleviating crutches, in about a week.
Who is the baddest?! ;-)
Didn't realize that level 9 was as slow as level 7, but with 6 instead of 5 categories. Thought it was just sped up version, which, again, I think requires too much hand eye coordination. Not that having a 25 dexterity is a bad thing, it is just that, imho, it would be better tested and measured elsewhere.
Anyway, not bad!
Played 2 practice games before amping it up for a good score.
