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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
Okay, here’s a quick one that’s guaranteed to cost you some productivity. How long does it take you to get the little robot guy into the castle? Machinarium is a beautiful puzzle-game, and you can play a short teaser online for free. NOTE: Don’t watch the movie until after you solve the puzzle. (Found this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2009
I have sung the praises of Sporcle.com (here and here), the game site that can teach you more than you learned in grad school. First they had the U.S. presidents. Then they added things like African countries, and the periodic table of the elements. Now they’re adding games at a breakneck pace, and along with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2008
A recent post by Friend of the Star Chamber Mike Onken over at the Industry! blog reminded me what a terrific resource Sporcle is. I’ve written about their excellent Name the Presidents game here before, but they’re on a roll now. They’ve got some kind of solid infrastructure that lets them churn out games lickety-split. [...]
Posted in Games on Sep 11th, 2007
Not wasting enough time yet today? I have just the thing for you. Bloxorz is a dangerously addictive game that will exercise your spatial reasoning muscles. Not to mention your procrastination muscles. I have no idea how to pronounce Bloxorz, but then again, I don’t speak hax0r. The idea is to roll a little brick [...]
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