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January 17, 2011

Pirates Love Daisies: An HTML5 Tower Defence Strategy Game

Decent tower defense game. Sponsored by Microsoft, works fantastically in Chrome, no plugins required.

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July 22, 2010

Cow Clicker

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“You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.”

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June 13, 2010

Carcassonne for iPhone

Beautifully designed and implemented board game for iPhone. I’m still getting to grips with the strategy, but it’s rather fine.

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March 28, 2010

QRANK

Free iPhone trivia game — new questions daily, and compete against your Facebook friends for bragging rights. Initial poking points to: Rather Splendid.

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February 23, 2010

Robot Unicorn Attack

Currently sapping productivity at the Slide offices. Rainbow farts included.

Sushi Cat

Cute fun flashgame. Sort of Peggle meets Plinko, with a sushi-eating cat.

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February 9, 2010

Glitch

Glitch, the forthcoming multiplayer game from some ex-Flickr-folks. Looks gorgeous, although my MacBook’s fan is already whirring at the prospect of all that Flash gameplay.

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November 13, 2009

ARGH — Augmented Reality Ghost Hunter

Nifty augmented-reality iPhone game. The 3GS’s compass app might have seemed pointless, but opening up these kinds of possibilities makes it worthwhile!

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November 2, 2009

Machinarium

Gorgeous and fun point-n-click adventure. I played one screen and then paid for the full version.

October 9, 2009

Rock Band Coming to iPhone/iPod Touch

Will be interesting to see how this compares to the just-released Tap Tap Revenge 3. TTR3 costs $0.99 and has a fairly weak collection of free songs, and a small but decent music store. Rock Band will come with 20 tracks from bands you’ve heard of, but will likely be in the $10 range.

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June 1, 2009

Telltale Games - Tales of Monkey Island

And… AND!!! New Monkey Island game in an episodic stylee from the folks who did the recent Sam & Max. Woo!

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LucasArts.com | The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

The original Monkey Island game, “remastered” and coming soon to Xbox. “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.”

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April 27, 2009

W I N D O S i L L

So much imagination in one little game. Only $3, and well worth it if you like flashgames like Grow Cube or Feed the Head.

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March 17, 2009

gamemakers @ ngmoco:)

Blog from ngmoco:) on developing games for iPhone. Some fantastic insights.

February 27, 2009

WordFu

Quick and fun iPhone word game from ngmoco. Somewhere between Dice Poker and Boggle. $0.99 from the App Store.

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January 28, 2009

10 iPhone Games You Must Own | Wired.com

The games on this list that I’ve played have all been top-notch, so I’ll have to sample a few more.

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Closure.

Awesome atmospheric platformer, where you can only stand on what you can see.

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December 20, 2008

Achievement Unlocked | Armor Games

The game where unlocking achievements is the only point of the game. Hint: Clicking the Hint link gets you a “Cheater” achievement.

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December 9, 2008

Dangeresque - Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque

Short, fun, Flash approximation of ye olde LucasArts adventures from Homestar Runner. Ace!

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December 4, 2008

Tapulous - Tap Tap Dance

Stonking soundtrack to the new Tap Tap Revenge game (Daft Punk, Justice and Chemical Brothers, amongst others), and some trippy-ass visuals. Ace!

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November 30, 2008

App Shopper: TapDefense

Fantastic, highly-addictive and free tower-defense game for iPhone. After three (almost half-hour each) games, having trouble beating Level 30 on Easy.

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November 16, 2008

PuzzleManiak: It's demoniak

I loved the jailbroken version pre-App Store, and I’m delighted that a polished version is now available. Only $5 for a buttload of challenging puzzle games.

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October 28, 2008

Bejeweled Twist

PopCap’s latest. When I watched the video, I was skeptical — it all looked a bit crazy and flash and overkill. But it is ace fun and a worthy addition to the Bejeweled family.

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October 14, 2008

2D Boy: World of Goo

Stonking little indie game, finally officially released. Filled with bizarreness and imagination, I’ve been having a blast with it.

May 22, 2008

PuzzleManiak

Great puzzle collection for the (jailbrokened) iPhone. Some are a bit fiddly to play with your finger as stylus, but overall they’re a lot of fun.

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May 2, 2008

XSketch

Multiplayer online Pictionaryalike.

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March 26, 2008

Crossover Games

Wine for OS X and Linux especially designed to play graphically-intensive Windows games. The Orange Box and its contents are supported, and Audio-Surf ran OK for me, with some minor resolution-based oddness. Not sure it’s worth $40, though, when I can just reboot to Boot Camp.

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March 21, 2008

Experimental Gameplay Project t-shirts at Target

Target is stocking t-shirts which come with CD-ROMs of games from the Experimental Gameplay Project. Off-the-wall short-form games *and* silk-screened T-shaped clothing? It’s like they’re IN MY MIND!

February 25, 2008

Forumwarz

Funny and clever RPG based on pwning internet forums. I’m having a lot of fun with it.

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February 16, 2008

Audiosurf: Ride Your Music

An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!

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December 31, 2007

iminlikewithyou: Blockles

I’m In Like With You branches out into wickedly-addictive multiplayer Tetris. They even let you play without joining the site.

December 20, 2007

Passage

Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator’s statement. Lovely.

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December 19, 2007

Peggle

The awesome Peggle is now available for Mac, for anyone who hasn’t yet been caught in its crack-like addiction. And only $10 to register until the end of the year. Well worth it.

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November 27, 2007

November 17, 2007

Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games

A brief history of Bejeweled and similar “casual” games.

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September 18, 2007

Nelson's Weblog: Space Giraffe

Sounds fucking AMAZING! Do I dare buy a $300 console, just to play a $5 game?

September 12, 2007

Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game

Best game so-far for the iPhone. And once again I say: If this is the awesomeness unleashed by reverse-engineering, imagine what might be possible if Apple ever get around to releasing a proper development environment for the iPhone.

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August 26, 2007

The Lemmings Story

Creation of one of the best video games of all time. They’re absolutely right about the perfection of the learning curve in the first game.

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August 1, 2007

Taito announces Arkanoid DS, special paddle included - DS Fanboy

Arkanoid for the DS will be packaged with a paddle controller so you can play the game as it was always intended. This makes me colossally happy.

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May 18, 2007

JPC - Computer Virtualization in Java

Java applet that emulates an x86 PC. Kind of interesting, but what’s really cool? They’re demoing it with lots of classic PC games — Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Lemmings… If they had “Jones in the Fast Lane”, it’d be perfect!

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May 1, 2007

Frets On Fire

Open source Guitar Hero-a-like.

April 6, 2007

CHICK CHICK BOOM

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

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March 21, 2007

Desktop Tower Defense

Excellent Flash strategy-ish game which cost me about 20 minutes of productivity. So far.

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March 1, 2007

Sprout

Relaxed, attractive Flash logic puzzle. A lovely way to fill five minutes.

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February 27, 2007

The Impossible Quiz Deluxe by =Splapp-me-do on deviantART

Trick questions, logical traps, and just general evilness. Takes an age to download and get going, but it’s plenty of fun.

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'Beyond Tetris' - Minesweeper

History of everyone’s favourite Windows feature.

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January 5, 2007

WotR 80 - Jet Set Willy:Online

Multiplayer Jet Set Willy! Play as teams collecting objects, or capture the flag mode. It’s like my entire childhood was leading up to this.

January 4, 2007

Wormux

Open source Worms-a-like. Far too many of my student hours were taken up playing “Worms 2” against my flatmates. Admittedly, most of that time was taken up by giggling as we named our worms things like “Sean Is A Virgin” and “Jim’s Cock”, but I think the game was fun too.

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December 23, 2006

WiiCade.com - Flash Games on your Nintendo Wii

Flash games designed to be played on the Wii’s Internet Channel. What a clever way of getting “homebrew” games onto the Wii!

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October 28, 2006

Frozen Bubble - the official home

Truly excellent open-source Bust-a-Move clone hits 2.0. Features, oh yes, internet multiplayer mode. My productivity hits new lows. (No Windows or OSX port yet, but hopefully only a matter of time)

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October 4, 2006

Sega of America: Sonic Rush

There’s a proper 2D Sonic game for the DS?! Why was I not alerted to this sooner? I love me some spiny blue action.

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September 14, 2006

blufr - bruising your ego one bluf at a time

Silly little true-or-false game from answers.com. Good fun.

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May 22, 2006

SourceForge.net: UltraStar

Open-source version of the SingStar karaoke game.

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May 17, 2006

YUI Tetris!

Tetris implemented in XHTML and Javascript, thanks to Yahoo’s javascript UI libraries.

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May 15, 2006

Life After the Video Game Crash

Fun rant predicting an impending crash. “We’ve now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and… even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the most realistic fog yet!”

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Fancy Pants Adventure

Enjoyable hand-drawn Flash platformer.

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March 21, 2006

rrrrthats5rs.com » Don’t Shoot the Puppy

The funniest flashgame I’ve played in ages. Can you work out the secret to not shooting the puppy?

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December 7, 2005

Deflexion

Real-world bounce-the-laser-off-mirrors boardgame. Looks like a lot of fun — I think I’ll head to the “World Championships” at MIT this weekend.

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.