Here’s a nice time-waster for a slow Sunday afternoon: El Emigrante. You play an illegal alien on a bicycle running away from the police, and you get points for how long you can elude them, and how many police cars you can get to crash while chasing you.
Disclaimer: illegally entering a country and crashing police cars is frowned upon in most jurisdictions…
Here’s Bru, a casual online game that can waste lots of your time. (I know, just what you needed.) You flip marbles from one track to another to make them disappear, sort of like Zuma, but not timed and a lot more free-form (and thus less frustrating). Strangely addictive.
This is a video of a speech by game designer Jesse Schell called “Big Brother, Video Game Psychology & Obedient Humans living inside Skinner Boxes,” from the DICE 2010 gaming conference, and it’s awesome, scary, and awesomely scary. This guy is throwing off skiffy story ideas the way congress throws off wasteful spending.
Evidently Bruce has the whole thing up on his blog. I’m going to see if I can check out the rest of his talk when I get a chance.
Hat tip: Fark.
An oldie but a goodie: Set off a bomb to set off other bombs.
And yes, it is possible to beat level 12; I’ve done it several times.