Interactive
Art with doing. Games, puzzles and environments. Go ahead, click.
Art with doing. Games, puzzles and environments. Go ahead, click.
Posted by dave
Darren Solomon composed a few minutes of beautful noise and visuals, then published it as a lake of youtube videos. Any or all videos can be started or stopped at any time without worry. Play with those volume sliders to make your own personal melancholy soundtrack.
Posted by ted
Nacho Rodriguez, whose Mr. Coo series was featured before , has a Mr. Coo game out — well, it’s sort of a game, but it’s more like an interactive comic. Check it out. I love the way the frames move. It’s in Spanish, but very sparingly.
Link to: Mr. Coo game
Posted by jon
Shift is a black and white puzzle game with a unique game mechanic. Sometimes black is the floor and sometimes white is the floor. It all depends on your perspective. Press “shift” and everything flips.
Posted by jon
This game by Pixel Jam has exactly three things going for it:
(1) Simple, addictive game play
(2) Endearing old school graphic style
(3) Dinosaurs
Link to: Dino Run
Posted by ted
This isn’t the kind of thing we normally have here, but this speed run of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial memory game, which was captured with desktop screencap software and as such seems a bit like stop motion, is so cool it’s practically art. (Also, it’s a spoiler. I know, you are so bummed, you wanted to figure out the green cube yourself. tough toodles, crybaby.)
Posted by jon
Not your ordinary Flash game. Made by K-Guare.
Link to: Mindfeed
Posted by jon
I’ve always been a sucker for artillery games—the kind where you have to set the angle and power on a projectile. This particular incarnation is one player, high score based, and imbued with some fun bouncy physics. The whole package is simple and addictive enough that it wasted a good deal of my time last night.
Link to: Ice Castle Blaster
Posted by dave
If the smiley, golden idol breaks, you lose. A simple concept, but heartbreaking every time.
Link to: Totem Destroyer
Posted by jon
A unique game where you control a spider. Draw your own web, catch a variety of delicious bugs and then devour them with a satisfying sound effect.
Link to: Arachnophilia
Posted by ted
Here’s a simple game with a vertical orientation like R!se, but with the option to buy better powers in between rounds. The NASA-style letter at the beginning cracks me up.
Link to: Hedgehog Launch
Posted by julie
It’s simple but addictive.
Link to: 10-Second Pollock
Posted by ted
Strictly speaking, this game is not fun, nor is it original in design. In fact, it is a straight rip of Space Invaders. And as it is meant to promote John McCain, I suppose it is not satire. But there’s just so much that is hilarious about a game where a "McCain" logo shoots the word "veto" at a block formation of ear-marked Pigs that I had to post it. The metaphor makes no sense — wouldn’t the pigs be hidden in Politically Difficult to Dodge Bills? — but the sad thing is that this is the McCain campaign’s attempt to be "cutting-edge" and appeal to the youth — Obama’s got a social network, and McCain responds with a rip-off of Space Invaders, a game that is older than the voters it’s supposed to woo.
Link to: Stop the Pork
