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title: Games
created: 2017-06-07 14:45
updated: 2017-06-07 14:45
revision: 42
author: Au-Mercury
summary: adding useful info
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[[ElegantMedia]]

## Definition

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


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## my all-time top 10
1. ico
1. silent hill 2
1. black & white
1. ceremony of innocence
1. tomb raider 1
1. animal crossing
1. kessen 2
1. project zero 2: crimson butterfly
1. shadow of memories/destiny
1. myst

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## 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 [http://www.mycheats.com/view/section/6153/6242/hotel_dusk_215/nintendo_ds]
- 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://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html) 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](http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html)

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