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Good Old Games is making digital downloads analog. Wait, what?
Good Old Games (GOG) decided to make digital downloads analog. Take a look at “the GOGBook,” which is “literally as fast as light.” Okay, so this was a joke to promote the fact that GOG is selling games for the Mac now, but it was a good one.
Find out your snob quotient with "Cheese or Font"
This quiz game gives you the name of a cheese or a font and asks you to discern which one it is. It’s a fun way to realize that the two are weirdly similar. If you do well, you’re probably some kind of cheese or font snob, or both. It’s okay, we still like you.
Kickstarter backed "Haunt" hits major delays, calls phenomenon into question
Gamers are still in the honeymoon phase with Kickstarter. What happens when games never make it to launch? Kyle Orland at Ars Technica discusses Haunt‘s recent failure and what this says about the Kickstarter phenomenon: Over 1,200 backers helped Rick Dakan and the development team at Mob Rule Games
Build your own adventure game with Story Nexus
Have you ever wanted to make your own adventure game? Failbetter Games has created a tool called Story Nexus which allows you to craft your own text based adventure. And even if you don’t want to create a game, you can play other people’s. The adventure creation package requires no coding but allow
Can former Nintendo Fun Club President make learning effortless?
Howard Phillips, of Howard & Nestor fame, has started a Kickstarter for an educational game that distracts you from learning. Basically, image and audio are paired in tiles that players have to match up for score combos. The distraction of figuring out how to get a high score makes it seem like you’
NES cartridge made into NES console
Why? Why not. This is how it was done: Instructables user dany32412 pulled an Xzibit, he built a Nintendo NES system into an old school NES Cartridge. Inspired by Kotomi who completed a similar project, he sourced a NES On A Chip (NOAC), a cloned consol which is essentially a fully functional Ninte
Pokémon, the horror story
It’s time to break out your DS flash cart or emulator and play the homebrew ghost story Pokémon (Creepy) Black. You could read most of it here, but I found it far more creepy using the DS game retelling. In true ghost story tradition, the game’s gradual unfolding is part of what makes it creepy, so
A metagame about playing JS Joust
Pippin Barr, the man behind Pongs and this article about sadist Pong, has made a game about playing the game Johann Sebastian Joust called Ludwig Von Beatdown. If you can’t make it to one of those artsy conventions, you can play at home! …kind of.
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