Kern Type
Learn how to properly distribute the space between letters with this kerning game created by Mark MacKay for Method of Action
Famous Objects from Classic Movies
Which movie does the object come from? Addicting game with great design from Google Creative Lab’s creative director Ji Lee (concept and illustrations), Daniele Codega (site design), and Cory Forsyth (coding).
Scrabb.ly
A massively multiplayer online Scrabble crossword with an insanely huge game board. To start playing just lay down a word.
Vaporize Any Website
Erik Rothoff put together a simple bookmarklet that turns any website into a astroid-like game where you and your spaceship take on ads, images and links. Try it out on the Tumblr dashboard, there’s plenty to shoot at there.
Remember: It’s cooler if you make your own sound effects.
Biolab Disaster - Pure HTML5 & JavaScript
Dominic Szablewski put together an incredibly impressive demonstration of what he’s able to pull of with pure HTML5 and JavaScript with the game Biolab Disaster. Although the graphics and gameplay are on par with what you’d expect out of the NES in the early 1990s it still shows the bright future for in-browser games and applications.
Read more about Biolab Disaster and the Impact HTML5 Game engine on Dominic’s blog.
Thanks Google
Google took their logo art to a new level today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pacman with a playable version of the game. The best part is that you can play the game on your iPad or iPhone, just swipe the direction you want to turn.
Sword & Sworcery
Game developers Superbrothers are getting a lot of attention at GDC this year for their upcoming indie iPhone game - Sword & Sworcery. They describe the game as “a fantasy subgenre characterized by swashbuckling heroes”. It reminds me a lot of the old pixel based adventure games, but with an incredible stylized twist.
More information, videos, artwork and news on the project.
Bank Run - Interactive Action Movie
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid? Bank Run is like combining one of those book, with the production quality of an action movie, and an interactive game. Interactive shop SilkTricky run by Chris Lund recently launched this site along with part II that’s playable as an iPhone game.
Go ahead. Kill some time on this site. It’s worth it.
15 Best (and Unknown) iPhone Apps of 2009
Creative Applications put together a list of their top 15 iPhone apps from 2009, all of which you probably haven’t heard of.
The Sixty One
Take the social gaming elements of Foursquare and combine it with music discovery and you have The Sixty One. Launch the site and ‘heart’ music you like, comment, participate in the daily quests to gain reputation awards, and level-up. The quest urge users to become participants on the site as well as educating them about music as in the quest In The Mood—Listen to four different moods on the homepage. (At least five minutes for each mood.)
If you sign-up for an account use my email address (jmoore@newezra.com) as a referrer. I assume I’ll end up with a few reputation points as a result.
