A Dark Room
Inspired by the ASCII taxt game, Candy Box. Incredibly minimal and fun.
A Dark RoomA minimalist text adventure
Indie
Build Your Own Retro Arcade Machine
All the components and directions you need to build your own arcade machine, sans cabinet.
Retro Gaming with Raspberry PiWith a Raspberry Pi, game emulation software and genuine arcade controls from Adafruit, you can build a dedicated retro game station and re-live these classic quarter-chompers. (Members Only jacket not included.)Adafruit Learning SystemPhillip Burgess
A Look at CivCraft, a Minecraft Mod
It’s hugely involved, with you mining the ground to gain resources to trade for coins to claim your land. Like a proper game of Civ, major construction involves clicking on the ground and watching the buildings extruding upwards. They’re functional buildings, allowing you to enter and use them, and enhancing them to provide the bonuses to the land.
This feels like the next natural stage of evolution of Minecraft.
A Minecraft Mod To Admeier: CivCraftThere’s not a lot of structure to vanill
Morrowind Rebirth 2.2 Released
Find new enemies to fight, exciting areas to explore, gain access to new weapons to slay your foes or just roam the huge world that’s out there
Combine this with the Morrowind Overhaul Mod, and you have a beautiful remake of the classic game.
Candy Box, a Bizarre Text Adventure
A very minimalistic, ASCII text-based game that runs in your browser. With no instructions on how to play whatsoever, it’s oddly addicting and fascinating.
Build New Games
Build New Games fuses game programming, web development & open web technology to push the boundaries of game development on all platforms.
Some well-written articles on getting started with web-based games. As an added easter egg, you can also play Asteroids on the frontpage.
Angry Birds HD: My thoughts on Ouya
With Ouya’s Kickstarter page going live yesterday, people have been asking me what I thought of the new console. I’ve had some time to think it over, and I keep coming to the same conclusion. The Ouya is little more than a smartphone masquerading as a home console. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just what it is. Hardware Lets start with the hardware. It’s near-identical to what’s found in the current generation of smartphones and tablets. Nothing about it is really impressive. It’