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epic.net

Reward your future customers with a game

Why not rewarding our visitors with the cutest bunny ice skating game ever?

downpour.games

Downpour

Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story.

andreinc.net

The sinusoidal tetris

A tetris game with a twist.

neal.fun

Infinite Craft

A game about crafting by Neal Agarwal.

kottke.org

13-Year-Old Becomes First to Beat NES Tetris

13-year-old Blue Scuti is now the best Tetris player in the world after becoming the first human player to beat the NES version

abagames.github.io

1d Pac-Man

A one-dimension Pac-Man game.

hexcodle.com

Hexcodle: The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game!

Can you guess today’s hex color? Challenge your color instincts and decode the hex with Hexcodle!

uxdesign.cc

How do Assassin's Creed games encourage players to use parkour?

I break down these core design decisions into mainly level design and encounter design decisions.

brickception.xyz

Brickception

A fun take on the classic bricks breakout game with popup windows!

medium.com

The Nintendo Ads You’ve Never Seen

A study of idyllicism, 癒やし (iyashi) & knowing your audience.

news.play.date

How the Creator of Alone in the Dark Came Back to Games

Frédérick Raynal is best known for creating Alone in the Dark, a game which single-handedly invented the survival horror genre.

shifthappens.site

Shift Happens: Cover Stories

This tiny companion site turns the Shift Happens slipcase cover into a mini game!

logodesignlove.com

Game+Logo, video game logos

A growing compilation of video game logos.

sillycovalley.com

Silly Co Valley

A fast-paced startup simulation game where you play the founder of a tech startup.

brilliant.org

Halfsies: A Game of Shapes & Strategies

Can you make the cut? Test your sharpness and compete with your friends at Halfsies, a new game from Brilliant.

timeguessr.com

TimeGuessr

Guess the right time and location of a historical photo.

nytimes.com

Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz

Test your knowledge of history by sorting eight events in chronological order.

noclip.website

noclip

A digital museum of video game levels

vividfax.itch.io

Fudge: Inverse Tetris

In Fudge, instead of placing falling tetrominoes, you carve them out of a block of tiles.

uxdesign.cc

Tears of the Kingdom: how Nintendo improved (and ignored) UI issues

The latest Legend of Zelda title has both pleased and pissed off gamers when addressing certain user interface issues.