Be A Martian
NASA needs lots of help sorting through the hundreds of thousands of images they’ve collected from the surface of Mars. What do do? Make it into a game! Be A Martian combines the work of analyzing those images online with the competition of gaming. In this way, NASA hopes to enlist citizens to help with the huge project.
Nasa hopes the mix of real data and fun will also inspire the planetary scientists of tomorrow.
“We really need the next generation of explorers,” says Michelle Viotti, from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which oversees Mars missions.
“And we’re also accomplishing something important for Nasa. There’s so much data coming back from Mars. Having a wider crowd look at the data, classify it and help understand its meaning is very important.”
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Leaving
Leaving is a video game based on a true story.
William David, a developer for Ubisoft, decided the best way for him to quit would be through the same medium, but in a rather different style. The combination of style, music and message make this an entertaining experience and by the time I had walked my way through it, I myself was willing William on to do great things. His plans are to continue work as an independent developer.
You don’t accrue points, you don’t compete against anyone, and there are no advancing levels, but the music is awesome. Use the arrow keys to advance and quit your job. Link to story. Link to game. -via reddit
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Must Pop Words
Must Pop Words is a straightforward but addictive clear-the-board game mixed with a word game. As letters drop, you type in any words they can form, which will clear those letters. Don’t let the screen fill up with letters! I scored 3576 on the first try. Link -via the Presurfer
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Best game show ever!
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I don’t know what they’re talking about, but the show is awesome!
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An Archive of Droodles
Kind of sounds like a new designer dog hybrid, but “droodle” is a mix of “doodle” and “riddle,” a simple line drawing with a complicated answer as to what it is. A famous one adorns the cover of Frank Zappa’s album “Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch,” which is exactly what the droodle depicts. They’re silly and almost impossible to guess, but it’s fun to try. I’m really partial to the one on the left. See if you can guess what it is before you click the answer.
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Broken Picture Telephone
This online game is like the old telephone game, except with pictures. It starts with a post-it note describing a scene. The first player draws the scene. The second player only sees the picture the first player drew, and write what they think it is. The next player draws a picture illustrating the previous player’s words. Players only see what the one player previous drew or wrote. But after eleven steps (ten players), you can see the whole game. In fact, anyone can see completed games, like the one shown. Some games stay close to the original scene, but some stray strangely far afield. Link -Thanks, DaMamaJama!
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Video Game Boosts Learning
Remember when video games were bad for you? Mom and Dad would complain about how they tied up the television, kept you from playing outdoors, ruined your eyesight and wasted your time. That’s a thing of the past. Re-tooled videogames are now helping children and teens boost basic skills in reading, writing and math.
At West Nottinghamshire College in the U.K., computer science teachers were struggling to get teenage students into literacy and numeracy classes. The college needed to take drastic measures to assist “disaffected students”.
The resolution came in the form of Neverwinter Nights, Atari’s popular computer game. Teachers rebuilt the game to deliver educational challenges players must tackle in order to progress.
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White Jigsaw
This starts out easy, but every time you successfully complete one of the all-white puzzles, you get another one with more pieces. I can’t seem to stop playing… I want to know how large the final puzzle gets! If anyone gets there, let me know.
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An Escape-the-Room-Game: Vision
Vision is another escape-from-the-room game, sure, but it’s pretty. Be sure to examine every nook and cranny – you’re going to need keys or combinations to open almost everything. And take note of the shapes of things. That’s all I’m saying! Have fun and good luck.
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Virtual Etch-a-Sketch
I was never any good at the real Etch-a-Sketch, and I’m certainly not any better at the virtual version. This picture to the left was done on a real Etch-a-Sketch (you can see more on the Ohio Art site), but maybe you’ll do just as well online. Let us know how you fare!
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Virtual Juggling: Just as Hard as Real Juggling
I can’t juggle in real life, so I’m not sure why I thought I would do well at virtual juggling. I couldn’t even get past the first level… but maybe you can. Let us know how you do!
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Game of LIFE Gets a Reality Check
Did you used to play the board game LIFE, with those little cars with room for a pink mom, a blue dad, and two kids in the backseat as you motored predictably through college, job, marriage, home-buying, etc?
Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy is coming out with a "spicy" version of the game where a lousy economy, gambling sprees, shotgun weddings, and disappearing family members are the norm.
The name of the game comes from a Japanese idiom meaning "life’s a roller coaster" and is expected to hit the stores in April.
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Maze Game is Really Hard
Or maybe it’s just hard for me – I have perpetually shaky hands (it takes me two hands to play Boom Blox on the Wii) so I only got about halfway through before biffing it. Your job is to guide the little red dot through the maze without touching the walls, but it’s not as easy as all that. There are moving parts and twists and turns that make this pretty challenging! And if, unlike me, this maze is way too simple for you, there’s a link at the bottom of the page for version two, which looks darn near impossible.
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Make Your Own Virtual Kaleidoscope
I’ve been entertaining myself with this for way too long this afternoon. You get a bunch of elements – squares of different colors, vertical lines, horizontal lines, diamonds, dots – and then can place them wherever you want and see what kind of pattern you get. I bet you can come up with some cooler than mine, though.
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Japanese cat Tetris iPhone game
I can’t decide whether or not this iPhone game is wonderful or terribly annoying. I *still* love Tetris and I love seeing games that build upon the original Tetris idea. I love to see the iPhone’s accelerometer being used in new applications. At the same time, however, having to listen to somebody else playing the game with its cacophony of cat-noises in a confined space seems like it might be tortuous. Has anyone played this? Any iPhone owners plan on buying the game now that you’ve seen the video? [YouTube]
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Word Association Game
OK, it’s not exactly a game, but it is kind of entertaining in a mindless way. It’s pretty simple: the site gives you a word and you type in the first word that comes to mind. Then it gives you another word based on the word you just gave – the site is essentially learning word connections from the people who use the site. You can get stats on each word to see if you think the same way other people do or not. It’s also kind of fun to come up with a word no one has entered yet – you end up stumping the computer, and it adds your word to its list.
It’s a good time-waster.
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Brown Dyed Hotel - A Flash Game
This game is surprisingly hard. You have to figure out how to get through each page without any direction whatsoever. It’s believed that there are 12 levels, but apparently there are some hints on the site that more exist. Will you figure it out? If you do, let us know in the comments. I got stuck on the Cirkles level (you can tell what level it is by the URL). I know what to do; I just can’t get it done.
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Fun With Sushi
C’mon… like you’re getting any “work” done right now. Christmas Eve must be the most unproductive day on the job all year. Anyway, if you’re just counting down til you get to go home, kill a little time with this sushi game. You learn how to make different types of sushi, then you have to serve customers and order more ingredients when your stock runs low. It starts off slow, but it really picks up. Before you know it, an hour has gone by. Or maybe that’s just me.
Link: Sushi Go Round
Photo via Wikipedia user Nesnad.
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Light Up the Christmas Tree Puzzle
This is an interesting logic puzzle – it kind of reminds me of that old game Pipe Dream. You have to rotate the “wiring” pieces and connect each bulb to light up the tree. It’s harder than it sounds!!
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Test Your Typing Skills
Think you’re a super-fast typist? See if you’re right by racing against total strangers at Typeracer. Yes, I’m a nerd, cause I thought this was really fun. It reminds me of those games you could play on the old Apple II back in the day, like Number Munchers.
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Mass Attack - Addictive Flash Game
Mass Attack is a highly addictive flash game where your goal is to even scales by dropping weights in the right size on them.
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