Gaming Links
I am drowning in offbeat links and bizarre stories (imagine a family who walks on their hands, a fashion show featuring a flying penis, or a casket maker who will actually send you a sample), but while I'm working on that, here are some gaming links for you.Brent sent me a link to a game called "NotPron." It's a collection of riddles that get increasingly wicked as you go along. 138 levels, almost 8 million site visitors since August 2004, and 94 people have been certified as finishing the game. Very odd and very compelling. Here's the link:
http://deathball.net/notpron/.
The always interesting Matthew Sakey has a new IGDA column where he writes an open letter to Jack Thompson. Hopefully Thompson will leave his law office at the mall long enough to read it. Here's the link:
http://www.igda.org/columns/clash/clash_Mar06.php.
I have no idea where I saw this link first, but it's an interesting article on how significantly game development has increased in complexity. Orders of magnitude increase, seemingly. Here's the link:
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=114.
Here's a link from Sirius to a Wired article about first person gaming--in the real world. Here's the teaser:
You're trapped in a high tech Spanish slammer, crawling through real tunnels, behind real bars. First-person gameplay breaks out of the box.
I'm not sure something like that will ever be more than a boutique, high-end business, but it will be a business, and it's going to be increasingly cool. Here's the link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/lafuga.html.
Here's a Futurama pinball machine--a user mod, if you will, and it's brilliant. Here's the link: http://members.aol.com/specialwhenlit/CustomPinball/index.html.
Lastly, a ton of you sent in a link to the newest craze: Accordion Hero. I don't know who put this site together, but they are funny, funny people. Here's the link:
http://www.phobe.com/sfi/accordion.html.
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