Category Games

Time for a rant

Games get a hard enough time being taken seriously without rubbish like this being produced. It’s a ‘virtual fashion game’ aimed at 9-14 year old girls in which the aim is to “become the hottest, coolest most famous bimbo ever”.…

Questionaut

Here’s another game by the people responsible for the brilliant Samorost 1, Samorost 2 and Quest for the Rest. This one’s actually designed as an educational game, and I can forgive the rather crude embedding of content because of the…

Alternate realities

I’ve been recently getting more and more interested with the potential of alternate reality games (ARGs) as a lo-fi solution to the problem of the expense of educational game development. Basically an ARG combines a story with a series of…

Is this the most boring game ever made?

A big thank you to Scott Wilson for pointing this game out to me. It has truly risen to the challenge of making filing fun. Perhaps sadder still is the fact that I’m in the pub feeling the need to…

Cursor*10

This game falls into the time-travelling cursor genre and is worth a diverting five minutes. Much easier to get my head around than the very confusing time bot (of course, that could just be my limited attention span talking).