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All Fun and Games

Close-up photo showing the edge of a monopoly board with the race car playing piece on the Go To Jail square and a small red plastic house on an adjacent square

Nice weekly free thread discussing the games we play! Don't miss Wobbuffet's commentary about the history of parlor games from antiquity to the present, and how old games reveal themselves in modern equivalents.

01/23/24
by taz

How many words can you get?

typingtyping by Kiran Foster (cc by)

Go ahead and cancel your plans for the next few hours 'cause Kattullus has posted about an addictive game you can play. Best part is that each game only lasts 20 seconds!

Prompt. Type. 20 seconds passes. REPEAT!

Cracker Barrel

illustration showing huge neon text ENTER THE DEMOSCENE atop a futuristic cityimage via generationamiga.com

Z303 has crafted an amazing megapost on demoscene history, techniques, creations, social scene, and more.

12/12/23
by taz

small, fun, free

simple pixel art of a creature inside an enclosure containing nooks where blocks must goscreenshot of opening level of the game I Have No Mouth, And I Must Create Blocks On All Sides Of Me

"charming, handcrafted, fiendishly difficult puzzle games with a retro 8-bit feel": Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013, a passel of Puzzlescript, iOS and Android games to while away the hours, 8-bit at a time.

11/28/23
by taz

"Phrygian? I don't even know Ian!"

Screen capture of a title page showing the text Phrygian at the top, a background of musical notes, and in the foreground an anime character wielding a sword and an angry Pikachu

Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's analysis videos that use game music to illustrate modes.

09/11/23
by taz

"Friday Flash Fun Forever"

Flashpoint logo in a red circle surrounded by two circular rows of small logos of flash-based games and software

Rhaomi posted a labor of love featuring the Flashpoint Archive preservation project with over 145,000 preserved Flash games, plus highlights, more emulators, more games, tips, background, new software and more. If you miss Flash Fridays, definitely *don't* miss this post!

07/17/23
by taz

"an implausible profusion of original tabletop games"

Internet lore tells us the story of Cheapass Games, founded by prolific gamemaker James Ernest in 1996 ... JHarris posts about Ernest's new (2020) Crab Fragment Labs, "offering an array of both pay-what-you-want-to-print and paid-for-physical products: card games, board games, quick-playing and easy-to-learn pub games, solitaire games and a wide assortment of the best of the old Cheapass Games in Cheapassic Park."

04/15/23
by taz

Idle Hands

Play Free Now

Mafia Donna mobile game ad screenshot

I work in the space and have a few observations ... Jilder shares insider insight on those bizarre free-to-play mobile games / ads.

07/02/22
by taz

How Puzzling!

Squardle screenshot via setsideb.com

Daily puzzles in art, geography, and more (also, see this Ask Metafilter question)

06/29/22
by taz

Gametime

Game BoxGame Box by M.G.N. - Marcel ON OF (cc by-nc-nd)

everything happens so much! what can I play? "What are some good recent video games that don't suffer if you are frequently interrupted?"

06/21/22
by taz

gaming without the grinding

PortalPortal by AaronPriestPhoto

In Ask Metafilter, unus sum says, "I'm looking for a longish video games to sink my teeth into. I find it nice to have a video game where I can solve interesting problems that don't actually matter as a way to relax..."

06/27/21
by taz

Just Fun, No Fooling

FunFun by ::: mindgraph ::: (cc by-nc-nd)

Join the right day, wrong century Exquisite Corpse game underway in Metatalk, or dip into Uncle Mefi's Big Book of Beans for some solo activity game fun!

04/01/21
by taz

underappreciated, underinitiated, undiscovered?

image of Hiversaires game screen on a tabletHiversaires launch trailer screenshot

In Ask Metafilter, serathen is looking for single player PC games for the underinitiated, and in case you missed it previously, Going To Maine asked Mefites for interesting gems in the Racial Justice & Inequality Bundle, while recently in Metafilter, a post on games designer Bennett Foddy's picks for the most under-appreciated games of the 2010s (with links!), and xedrik throws in some favorites that could use more love, too.

08/24/20
by taz

Campfire bonding games

CampfireCampfire by Jason Pratt (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, quiet coyote is looking for "good discussion-based games for 6 adults to play as a group that don't involve supplies other than pen and paper, and ideally help us learn more about each other rather than just passing the time."

Meanwhile, over in Mefi Music, the most favorited tracks of the past week have been: Workman 9 to 5; A Grand Unslam; Trapeze Act; Time (the Revelator)

08/15/20
by taz

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