Uhh, where do I start? At FlashPunk I discovered the hint to a games called “LIFE” and “DEATH“. Both are part of the so called “Klik & Play Pirate Kart II”. And that is a nice thing. In the spirit of (?) good old cartridge-collections, the goal was to create “371 games within 48 hours”. So, why is that? Global Game Jam made 370, and they wanted to do at minimum “one more”. The Glorious Trainwrecks site says: “Glorious Trainwrecks Dot Com is hereby declaring QUANTITY WAR on the Global Game Jam“. To achieve this goal, they set up simple rules: “All of the games are made in a single 48-hour period. No game is allowed to take more than two hours to make.” And they did it! 529 games were made are now available here.

This is wacky stuff!

The works from Jason Rohrer are getting more and more interesting. His latest work Sleep is Death is a two-player game with much degree of freedom – and it promises lots of fun! The game should be released in April and will be 14 dollar. Pre-orders are accepted now for only 9 dollar. “And what will the game like“, you ask? Just take a look at this slideshow to get the idea! Have fun!

Productivity and even more productivity. Suck at artworks? No problem at all! Use the Büro Destruct Designer. It is some sort of semi-automatic design-tool, that let’s you create artworks in the style of the Swiss designers from Büro Destruct. You use circle shapes, colors and simple rules, to create your things. Really, really beautiful! Will the designers in future render their job useless by this app? Surely not, but it’s a really nice toy to create stuff to build upon. Available for iPhone (at 99 cent Introductory price) and free for Adobe Air.
(via Creativeapplications) [Playstate entry]

…but you have. Dinosaurs Didn’t Have Keyboards is a small platformer, with an experimental game mechanic. You move your dino with the keys 1-2-3-4 to move right, and 0-9-8-7 to move left. To jump you have to press 4 + 7 at the same time. This experiment consist of one level, that isn’t too hard. You have to make the time-record in running from start to goal. People can get very quick on the keys, and after a while the fingers really work physically on the keyboard. Best play it with friends!

The game was made by Sophie Houlden, who also did the Boxgame, that was unconventional and experimental in its nature, too. Cool stuff, she makes. Unfortunately made in Unity, that requires the Unity web-plug in. Wouldn’t it be at the time to completely move to Flash for compatibility-reasons for the next iterations of experimentation?
(via Superlevel)

Queue

Increpare Games has an interesting slogan: “Let’s try something out here…“. If you expect experimetal works now, than you are absolutely right! The stuff I tried so far on the site are explorations of narrative forms, somehow in between storytelling, classical writing and game interaction. If you got 10 minutes of time, checkout for example Queue.

Lucid Freaks pt.2 – the remixes

Does anyone know, what is going on inside the labs of Error Broadcast netlabel? Insane things! Whow. They released remixes from the Pixelords – Lucid Freaks pt.1. And this remixes are reaching out far more into incredible spaces and unheard regions of crushing beats and playing with sound. Much more sonic than the first one and still with nerofunk-cyberpunk gaming oddities in heard and soul. I have to say so: a must have!

I know, there is a typography-lover inside all of us. But some may not know. To help them, you can put them to the site What type are you. Then they will found out what “typo-type” they are. To achieve this, you have to answer four questions about your personality. Voila. This flash-based site is very lovely made, a site for “bon vivants”. Unfortunately some “skip sequence” buttons are missing.