This is just a little piece of internet wonderfulness that was emailed to me by a friend. The web page begins: Every year, we throw a big, game party to ring in the new year. This year (2010) is our house’s 100-year birthday, so we celebrated with cupcakes… …and the cupcakes were a game. Here
Jessica Hammer ’99 and her research team recently won a grant to design iPhone games that will help people stop smoking. The grant speaks for itself: The game is intended to be an alternative to smoking with the goal of reducing or eliminating tobacco use in players’ lives. The game involves breathing into a microphone
Wired has a story on Settlers of Catan, “Monopoly Killer“. It’s a nice mix of discussion of the game’s mechanics, the story of its creation and its inventor, and the status of German games in general, among other things. But what really piqued my interest was this graph: The article says that Catan has started
Fantastic Contraption This is a most amazingly addictive game. You build machines. Machines! Simple machines that do things. Amazing things. All in service of getting an object to a target area. Once you’ve struggled your own way through the various levels (fun and frustrating at times), you can see some of the incredible things that
So I’ve been instructed to post here with random cool things I’ve found on the Internets. Random cool thing from the Internets: http://www.rawkins.com/games/do2/ It’s a very, very simple browser game. Also very, very pretty, and very, very addictive. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who feels like he isn’t wasting enough time. Also anyone who