Games

ElegantMedia

Definition

1. I would say that all good art contains all the arts.
   
2. with videogames this can literally be so.
   
3. one should embrace this.
   
4. games as performance
   
   1. hide-n-seek
      
5. games as systems
   
   1. i would never say games should have rules but sometimes a system is useful
      
6. if software, games are alive - if physical games require participation
   
   1. feel free to contradict this.
      

my all-time top 10

1. ico
   
2. silent hill 2
   
3. black & white
   
4. ceremony of innocence
   
5. tomb raider 1
   
6. animal crossing
   
7. kessen 2
   
8. project zero 2: crimson butterfly
   
9. shadow of memories/destiny
   
10. myst
    

Text based

http://lazarus.skotos.net - free for now, give it a try.
NetHack
LambdaMOO

Game companies composed of one or two or 3 people

Bit Blot - http://www.bit-blot.com/
ABA Games - http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html
Llamasoft - http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/
Rinku’s Radical Poesis - http://studioeres.com/games/

InteractiveFiction

• http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if/games/lovecraft/
  

abandonware games

http://the-underdogs.info/
http://mac.the-underdogs.info/

Cheats etc.

• Tingles Rosy Rupeeland
  http://www.importgamers.com/tingle/ (bartering guide)
• HotelDusk (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=64737)
  cheats [1]
• Phoenix Wright Ace Attourney,
  walkthrough: http://faqs.ign.com/articles/734/734985p1.html
• Guild Wars
  • wiki: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • guide: http://guides.gamepressure.com/guildwars
    

Little online games

• Stars http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2007/09/2.html
  very pretty black and white flash mini games
• World Of Sand http://fallingsandgame.com/viewtopic.php?t=1875
  • everything is made up of pixel-particles
  • wall doesn’t react with anything, but can be worn away by fire
  • water dissolves salt to create salt water, and sinks in oil
  • salt water sinks in water
  • wax slowly burns and drips down when exposed to fire
  • oil rapidly combusts when exposed to fire
  • plant rapidly spreads through water (not salt water), but is easily burned by fire
  • spout generates water, but is dissolved by sand
  • sand sinks in water
  • there are 4 optional streams emanating from the top of the screen: water, sand, salt, and oil
  • the liquid elements (water, salt water, sand, molten wax, oil, and salt) are affected by gravity
• Grow Cube