Save the Date is a text-based dating simulator. It’s also a really funny comment on how we play games. We’ve posted about it before, but I finally got to play it, and I had to record some highlights to share. Check it out! You get the idea of where the game is going pretty quickly,…
Bananasaurus_Rex is easily one of, if not the, best Spelunky players out there. And right now he’s in the middle of an incredible run to rack up a record score of $3 million, which means getting every single piece of treasure in every level. UPDATE: He broke the record, and hit $3 million, a score…
We’ve talked abouthow Titanfall’s NPCs make sure there’s always something happening and there’s always someone to shoot. But the “grunts” also have their own dialogue, and it’s something more reminiscent of Halo than Call of Duty. You might notice when you’re near a group of grunts that they call out things like “Enemy pilot spotted!”…
There’s something really peaceful and fun about slowly clearing this board of different colored pieces of paper. It reminds me of playing with the paint bucket tool in MS Paint. It can also get just as frustrating as when you have a space in your outline that you didn’t catch. Kami came out for iOSlast…
How do you design a building when gravity can change at any time? Willy Chyr is figuring that out with his first game, Relativity. Think about it as if GLaDOS gave you control over gravity instead of portals (minus the evil AI narrative). Somehow, Willy he decided that his first project should be a game…
An important question is finally answered. SciShow does a great job answering this reader’s question about what constitutes ‘you’, and if any of that can technically be considered nachos. Sadly, the answer is no, but there’s still a good lesson here: Humans are basically shaped like weird, complicated donuts. SciShow via FirstWeFeast
It’ll be another day before the Titanfall beta officially starts for the public, but we’ve got access right now. And what better to do with the beta than 1) play the hell out of it, and 2) stream it live for you all to be in on the experience. I’ll be playing through the various…
I can make a tank (or a butterfly), then blow it up with lightning? I think DayZ just got topped in the pantheon of “reasons to own ArmA“. Check out this short trailer that shows off some of the features. Update: The developers livestreamed about an hour of gameplay, and it looks great. Check it…
Maybe it’s through natural talent, maybe through hours of obsessively replaying something. Maybe it’s speedrunning Metroid games, maybe hustling people in Street Fighter. Whatever it may be, what game are you best at, and how did you get that way? Personally, I tend to find myself playing games as far as my natural skill will…
“Even the most ridiculous design has a purpose” says the creator of this virtual countdown timer in the building game Minecraft. Well, the purpose of this design is to remind us of our place in the universe with a clock that will run for longer than there will be computers to simulate it. YouTuber spumwack…
I was poking around for interesting Portal 2 maps to play, and instead found an entire mod that replaces the portal gun with a gun that shoots the blue and orange gel from Portal 2. Even better, it has an entire storyline with a new character. Aperture Tag is a mod inspired by Tag: The…
Jazzpunk is a really hard game to explain. It’s like an adventure game that was written by a dozen different people, who all love puns, surrealist art, and computer jokes. Hopefully the video above will give you a feeling of what I’m talking about. If you’d like a more coherent explanation, Leo took a look…
Sure, this Starscream-inspired transformer definitely looks a little bit shaky, but that’s how all great inventions start out. It takes a while to get from biplanes to sentient fighter jets, but we’re getting there! If you’re at all familiar with Kerbal Space Program, you know that it’s no easy task just to get a basic…
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Fru is another creation from Global Game Jam 2014. It’s a platformer where you can’t see half of the platforms until you move into the right position. It starts out with fairly simple challenges, until about 2:40, when the acrobatics really begin.
What’s Echo Prime? It’s a mobile game by Robot Entertainment that just got released on Steam. It’s pretty fun, but playing on PC leaves you wondering why you aren’t playing on a phone. Take a look at the video and see what I mean. The game is pretty simple. Run across a screen, tap on…
I never really understood complementary colors, which makes sense, because I did horribly on that section of Color. It’s an incredibly simple game that will drive you mad trying to get a perfect score. Color is from Method of Action, who host a course called Design For Programmers. As you might imagine, the course attempts…
The Floor Is Jelly seems like a pretty normal platformer with some bouncy floors thrown in. Which it is, but the way it uses those bouncy floors creates a series of really interesting new challenges. I saw a hint of some different mechanics in the trailer, but I thought maybe it was just something thrown…
Octodad may be a family man living a quiet life in the suburbs, but life can get pretty hectic when you’re a 6 foot tall octopus in a suit pretending to be a human. Take a look at what the poor cephalopod has to deal with. Also, read our review of Octodad! Octodad is out…
So we’ve seen plenty of other games recreated within Minecraft, but now we’ve finally come full circle, and Minecraft has been recreated in Project Spark. How long until they get redstone functioning and create a working computer? Project Spark Showcase via @tomwarren
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