Games
Werewolves infect Webmasters
Werewolf (also known as Mafia) is a great parlor game in which players try and figure out the good guys from the bad guys relying on your ability to read the body language of other players to determine who is telling the truth and who is lying while keeping your role and identity hidden from [...]
Ethan Haas? 1-18-08? Let the scavenger hunt begin!
I’m a total sucker for this kind of stuff. Can anyone tell me what this is about? Scott Beale posts a note that says it has nothing to do with JJ Abrams mysterious new trailer for 1-18-08 - this is going to be fun!
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Lumos Labs - brush away the cobwebs of your mind
Lumos Labs is a new site which, through a series of simple online games, excercise your brain. The site’s games are “scientifically proven to improve your attention, memory and processing speed.” Like doing situps for your mind, the site sends you through a series of short games that are fun, engaging and beautifully designed. Scores [...]
Reuters opens up bureau in Second Life. Can taxation be far behind?
The 200 year old news service which transmitted its first dispatches via homing pigeons has opened up a news bureau in the virtual world of Linden Labs’ Second Life.
Adam Pasick, who goes by “Adam Reuters” in Second Life is the wire services sole correspondent, editor, and bureau chief.
Being a financial news service, reporting is focused [...]
1K Project
The 1K Project overlays 1,000 replays from the PC game Trackmania and composites them into a single video. A lesson in automotive physics and combustion driven liquid dynamics. No one knows who made this video or where it came from.
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answers.yahoo.com is a first person shoot ‘em up
Danny Sullivan takes a look at the growth of answers.yahoo.com and compares it to other successful social media properties.
If it were a computer game, Wikipedia would be a strategy game in which you take a long view to win a campaign or goal. Yahoo Answers is a first-person shoot-’em-up. Questions appear, and as soon [...]
Spore
OMG! I’ve been hearing all about this game as the next greatest thing but until you see it, you can’t really appreciate just how cool it is. Joystiq has links to videos from E3 that show the game in action and it looks amazing.
Joystiq Video, Wired Spore Event
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The New Yahoo Games
While the big gaming show E3 is going on in Los Angeles, Yahoo Games has released an update to Yahoo Games including a shiny new version of Yahoo Chess.
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Social Software as a Game
Three really great links that explore the relationship between a vibrant community site (i.e. Digg, MySpace) and an engaging multiplayer online game.
Casual Games =~ Social Software - Duncan Gough
Putting the Fun in Functional - Amy Jo Kim’s slides from eTech
Write up of Amy Jo’s presentation - Bruce Stewart
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Job Requirement : Level 60 World of Warcraft Guildmaster
By John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas write in Wired that contrary to popular perception, multi-player online games are a good training ground for junior management.
. . . the process of becoming an effective World of Warcraft guild master amounts to a total-immersion course in leadership. A guild is a collection of players who come [...]
