This flash game asks you to name as many as you can in 12 minutes. I only got 31 and thought I was doing well. You don't have to guess in order, and correctly spelled answers (or in some cases, their abbreviations) will automatically appear in the list. I'm putting this to you guys not only as a throw-down-the-gauntlet challenge, but also if the quiz creator missed any, or improperly listed one or more, you'll pick it all apart. Because after getting fewer than 50 percent, I need to feel better about myself, and the only way to do that is to question this quiz's credibility. (Kidding.) So you have at least one hint, let's see what you can do with the rest.

Can You Name the Video Game Systems (Released in the U.S.)? [Sporcle]

I wanted to make a game about how regret feels, but not necessarily about how to overcome regret. We both agreed that we should avoid the Deepak Chopra self-help angle.

My initial design ideas used 2-D platform mechanics as a foundation. Imagine making a mistake like missing a jump, but not dying from that mistake. Instead, imagine that mistake coming back to haunt you, forcing you to replay that jump again in the future. Imagine a level that becomes longer and longer as the regrettable past portions of the level are injected ahead of you - a future populated by past mistakes that you must replay.

Using familiar mechanics as a foundation can work, but I'm more interested in devising new mechanics that are the best possible fit for the topic at hand. I cast the net a bit wider and came up with the design that involves feeding animals. Oh, and killing them, too.

Worth a look this weekend if you've got the time — I didn't have much time to play around with it, maybe after I'm safely ensconced in LA for our E3 get together. Here's hoping traffic doesn't suck.

Game Design Sketchbook: Regret [The Escapist]

Bowja the Ninja 2: In Bigman's Compound [Pencilkids via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Unlike previous competitions, all the games are available for perusal right now, and they're not doing individual blog entries to introduce the titles. Still, there's a nice spread and variety, so if you've got some time to waste, wander over and check them out.

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5 [Jay is Games]

Questionaut [BBC via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Best Freeware Arcade Games 2007 [Indiegames]

What's in a name? It's definitely wee (who knew it was possible for tanks to be cute?), it's a war (round-based strategy at that), thus Weewar definitely isn't a misnomer. You have to request an invite, but for those of you into this sort of thing on a wee scale, perhaps not a bad idea.

Player-generated maps, online competition, cute tanks, and more hexagons than are found in a honeycomb - not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Maggie Greene

The designer describes it as "a digital poem/game/net artwork hybrid of sorts" and "a strange bit of craziness in the shape of a retro-platformer." I'd call it "Likely to exacerbate a headache and fun, if very odd - and that rolling ball of ... something is oddly endearing." Not exactly the world's most difficult game, I was still interested enough in the weird hand-drawn art and pseudo-religious texts popping up to keep playing for a while. To say that it is diverging a bit from most online flash games is something of an understatement. Maggie Greene

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