101 Free Games #6: Plus Or Minus and Cytoplasm

Cytoplasm is a scion of the amazing Experimental Gameplay Project at CMU (again with the CMU!). Although I love the project, this is not one…

keepon dancing

Marek Michalowski, one of the mad geniuses at CMU, has made a robot that dances, named Keepon.  This is both the cutest and most brilliant…

and dj stands for…

That’s Kool Herc up there, one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing.  I was looking at some wanky academic papers with titles like “Beatboxing As…

get on and ride

If you’ve ever had sex, you should watch SHORTBUS. It is by degrees touching, hysterical, hopeful, depressing, fantastic, real, mind-bogglingly explicit, and deliciously subtle. It…

101 Free Games #5: Frog Hunt & BallDroppings

Frog Hunt, to quote from the designers, “Might just be the worst game ever made.”  If nothing else, it’s interesting for 15 minutes or so. …

101 free games #4: toblo!

Toblo is the bastard love-child of Quake I CTF, the National Film Board Of Canada’s classic BLOCK CITY, and the music of the Postal Service. …

real men read bradbury

I accidentally went to the Times-Colonist Book Sale yesterday, and, uhhh, bought some books. Can’t beat $1 paperbacks. The Golden Apple Of The Sun, by…

instant city

In a creepy case of parallelism, I was given a link to the Instant City music construction device right after thinking of something similar (but…

101 free games #3: multihero

Attention anyone who played 8 bit or 16-bit games: You pretty much have to try this one out. Mutlihero is an old-school action game remix…

101 Free Games Part 2: Nanozoa

…continued from Part 1 of a look at 1up’s 101 Best Free Games Nanozoa: This is a classic example of a great design idea /…