MeFi Projects is a space for members to toot their own horn and link to something that they have done and wow has member malevolent done a great bit of tootin'! You'll see what we're talking about if you play his online game Stycraper and build a tower of junk!
Screenshot from the game The Witness
Daisyace could use your help. They'd love to find a video game that they could play with their husband. Something that is a "engrossing, feel-good video game with gorgeous visuals" but has little or no violence. What do you suggest?
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From ftrtts, 12 Word Searches. A book of 12 small puzzles that get trickier as you progress. For 1 or more solvers: as foxtongue describes in the comments, "puzzles in puzzles in puzzles." Just something cool that we didn't manage to point out amid the holiday bustle (and thread archived here now, sorry!), but Mefi puzzle lovers should take note of the seductive Itch.io tags: "Difficult," "secrets," "Text based," "Trivia," "Word game," "word-search." Maybe just the thing for a little decompression during these puzzling times.
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Here is dng's explanation of their quirky project: Quest Heroes is a sort of cute and cuddly (and hand drawn and fairly rough) card game version of 80s role playing board game classic Hero Quest which I made for my niece and nephew the other week (who both love Hero Quest a lot for some reason).
Would you like another distraction from *waves around* all this? Sweet, come check out lucidium’s post about a wig making game. Yeah, you heard that right, come try it!
Screenshot from game!
It’s been six years since community member justkevin released his first game, Starcom: Nexus. Time’s flown by and the follow-up is here (over in Projects) Starcom: Unknown Space! Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.
Photo by Elena Popova on Unsplash
Would you like to learn how to play the board game Go? "This website is visually appealing, simple to use, and easy to understand." Thanks bq!
Detail from Consider the Consequences book cover
And on THIS branching path, it turns out Mefi's own "professional enthusiast" gee_the_riot is the character who creates the Twine game featured in Rhaomi's fantastic post on reviving "Consider the Consequences!," the world's very first work of interactive fiction. Neato!
One of many creations made with The Incredible Machine
XKCD made a machine and Rhamoi made a post about it! There are balls involved, along with a fan, gears, an anvil and other stuff to direct the things in various ways. This is all about having fun, so come on in, the water's fine!
How do you deal with edge cases? Vincebowdren posted about "No Vehicles in the Park", an interesting (and short) game/quiz that looks at the difficulty of having policies that everyone agrees on.
Photo by Scott Swigart on Flickr
Wobbuffet casts a mage hand with a smashing megathread for Dungeons & Dragons 50th birthday (more or less)! 🐉
The majestic Snowyoctopowl, perhaps?
In case you missed it, Brids, Sfish and other Amals, a fun browser toy by dng that mixes up Victorian animal illustrations to create amazing new hybrid animals every time you click.
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