Extra FutureInstead of just asking for money for my prototype game, Badlands, I’ve created the Scroll of Naming. Visit the Badlands homepage and you can pay $1.50 to add any 3 names to the random name generator in the game. Your submissions will be added to the core game code and distributed with the game to everyone.
Don’t be a jerk. I can / will reject names due to bigotry or other jackassery.
As a big fan of [genetic walkers][walk], and [genetic cars][car], [this is right up my alley][link]. Can I get a baseball version please?
[link]: http://joshmillard.com/football/ “Genetic Football”
[walk]: http://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/ “Genetic Walkers”
[car]: http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ “Genetic Cars”
[A crazy version][link] of [Conway’s Game Of Life][con] using floating point numbers instead of integers. The results are disturbingly organic-looking. Could be images from a blurry microscope.
[link]: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/10/smoothlifel/ “SmoothLifeL | jwz”
[con]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_Game_of_Life “Conway’s Game Of Life”
[“the first online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive, text-based games with the world.”][link]
Reminds me of [Kove][kove].
[link]: http://playfic.com/ “Playfic”
[kove]: http://kove.extrafuture.com “Kove”
[A whack-a-mole game written entirely in CSS/HTML][link]. No Javascript. Chrome/Safari only.
[link]: http://jsdo.it/GeckoTang/4rXg “CSS PANIC – jsdo.it – Share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS”
My friend Ben Garvey and his daughter Sasha have created a [Floortop RPG for pre-school aged kids][link]. The idea is your kid uses his or her favorite toys as the characters and baddies. You can buy printable monster cards and rule sheets [on his website][link].
[link]: http://kidsdungeonadventure.com/ “Kids Dungeon Adventure”
[Similar to a project I was working on (now cancelled. they so win.), a todo list app with an RPG system tacked on][link]. Feel better about your real-life accomplishments with phony rewards!
[link]: http://www.epicwinapp.com/ “EPICWIN”
[Sabermetrics turns Baseball into a math nerd’s game.][link] I find nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
[link]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100402 “Bill Simmons: Finally on board the sabermetrics revolution – ESPN”
[Beautiful, super-detailed love-letter][link] to the mechanics of Choose-Your-Own Adventure books. via [Andy Baio][andy] and [John Gruber][gruber].
[link]: http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/ “cyoa”
[andy]: http://waxy.org “Andy Baio”
[gruber]: http://daringfireball.net “Daring Fireball”
[Didn’t know this was coming][link], seems a bit overpriced at $7.99, and 350mb of space seems, likewise, excessive. I’m also not entirely sure how the pointing mechanics will work, as a lot of the targets in Monkey Island are quite small. This works great for a mouse-based pointing system, but when your pointer is a human finger that Apple says should take up a minimum of a 40×40 pixel square… maybe not so much.
[link]: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/23/the-secret-of-monkey-island-se-released-for-iphone/ “The Secret of Monkey Island: SE released for iPhone”
[“The sport of lying down in random public places to confuse people.”][link]
[link]: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5989617014 “Facebook | The lying down game”