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The Psychology of Video Games

The Psychology of Video Games

039;s year-end gaming club. (2) - By Leigh Alexander, Jamin Brophy-Warren, Mitch Krpata, and Chris Suellentrop If someone else wants to be Puck, I can volunteer to be Kevin Powell. Or better yet, we could all cast ourselves in Jersey Shore (which I guarantee Ubisoft has in development). I would like to channel the spirit and flair of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. (Also, is Nolan North, who voiced Drake, the video-game industry's Will Smith? I love my other favorite game of 2009 for the exact opposite reasons. With almost nothing but a simple game mechanic and some evocative details (the fluttering doves a la John Woo, the pitter-patter of his black loafers), Canabalt made me feel desperation, longing, and sadness when my character inevitably fell to his death. Chris, I completely agree with you about the length of games. Before I go, I want to mention one more game. Chris, I really want to tackle your Modern Warfare 2 comments, but I think they'll be best served by another post.

What Games Are Games Tagged with 'mobile-monday' - Jay is Games Games Featured: • RunMan: Pronto • Glorkian Warrior • Color Tale Time to add a little color to your life. Both literally and figuratively! Colorful games with colorful characters and possibly even direct coloring gameplay additions dominate this edition of Mobile Monday. Games Featured: • Harry Likes Plums • Clobbr • Super Sanctum TD Get to demolishing things! Games Featured: • Droid Arcade • Pixel Room • Final Fantasy VI A little nostalgia to start your week? Games Featured: • Faif • Devils • Death off the Cuff The devils made us do it! Games Featured: • Stealth Inc. • LYNE • Inexistence Since everyone's already gone calender shopping for the new year (you remember printed calendars, right?) Games Featured: • Dungelot 2 • Trexels • Vacation Vexation As the mobile marketplaces wake up from their holiday slumber, new games start emerging like little flowers in the snow. Games Featured: • Angry Birds Star Wars II • Tengami Free games and the year's best games. Sonic's back! So many sales! Quick!

Goodbye Effect Games Friends, The time has come to shut the doors on Effect Games, so we can move onto other projects. But we've preserved some of our old games and demos for you to play with: We've also open sourced the entire Effect Games engine, as well as the web IDE. The source is MIT licensed, so you may use it in both personal and commercial projects. Deepest thanks to everyone who tried Effect Games and provided such awesome feedback. Baseball Advance (GBA) FAQ by King_Lueshi BASEBALL ADVANCE (GBA) FAQ/Guide by King_Lueshi Sooo... This is an FAQ/Guide for Baseball Advance for the Game Boy Advance. Baseball Advance is a suprisingly good baseball game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega. Even though it is basically universally considered to be the best baseball game on the GBA, there was sadly only one version ever made, while inferior series like High Heat and All-Star Baseball lived on. How'd you like my attempt at an introduction? Yeah, I didn't think it was too great either.

The Art & Business of Making Games the Web Genius Metagames: Games About Games Abusive Games Penn & Teller's Smoke & Mirrors (Sega CD, 1995). Download. Like their earlier Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends video from 1987 — see Vidi Kopy or Super Kleener for meta-VHS examples — Smoke and Mirrors was a collection of small pranks that used unique aspects of the medium to let buyers play tricks on their friends. In Desert Bus, the most notorious of the mini-games, players drive a tour bus on a mind-numbing eight-hour trip from Tucson to Las Vegas. Driving off-road gets you towed back to Tucson in real-time, making it difficult to cheat. Bastet: Bastard Tetris (Windows/Linux, 2005). I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game (Windows, 2007). The Unfair Platformer (Flash, 2008). Steamshovel Harry (Flash, 2009). Tetris HD (Flash, 2009). Minimalist Games The flipside of abusive games — games so obvious that they're barely games at all. Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die (Z-code, 1996). Progress Quest (Windows/Linux/Web, 2002). Quest for the Crown (Flash, 2003). Mr. Violent Games

Continuity Die Gute Fabrik News Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Quadradius Free Games - Computer video games online play strategy puzzle cards arcade board etc games The 150 Best Online Flash Games It was a long and exhausting task: playing hundreds of online games for hours in a row, day after day. It was hard, but someone had to do it. The result is the list that you will find below. Enjoy! Action Games 1. As you probably guessed, on this game, you get to drive an indestructible tank around. Click here to play IndestructoTank 2. A fighting game where you need to beat down several opponents at the same time. Click here to play Electricman2HS 3. Think about Sonic the Hedgehog with a more clean design and some physics effects added. 4. On this game you play a small dinosaur that is trying to escape the imminent extinction from a fallen meteor. Click here to play Dino Run 5. The Matrix fans out there will have fun with this one. Click here to play Matrix Rampage 6. The Gooples are all around you. Click here to play Amorphous+ 7. Ever wanted to fly around like Spider Man? Click here to play Double Wires 8. We couldn’t leave ninja games out of the list, right? Click here to play Final Ninja

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