Archive for the 'Games' Category

Crayon Physics
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

You’ve probably all seen this already, but this game (still in development) looks really cool.

Tai Chi cricket
Saturday, 8 March 2008

I think that there should be a national Tai Chi cricket team.
It would be great: the crowd could join in too, and become more fit doing so.
And calm.

Challenge Everything
Friday, 18 January 2008

The EA Games advert says in a dramatic, whispery voice “Challenge Everything”.
Seriously, everything?
Why?!

Netrek
Saturday, 22 December 2007

In my second year at St Andrews (1990-1991) our college got its first PC classroom; actually it was a Mac classroom.
This was in the days before the World Wide Web, and none of us had email addresses, but the computers were networked, which for us meant two things:

All ten Macs could be connected to one [...]

PicoZ Sky Challenger Battle Pack
Thursday, 22 November 2007

This looks great fun: it’s the PicoZ Sky Challenger Battle Pack
Two radio controlled helicopters, armed with lasers, capable of disabling each other’s engines!

Half Life in less than half the time
Friday, 9 November 2007

Every couple of months my friend Mike asks me if I’ve ever played any of the Half Life games.
Now I’ve watched this one minute summary video I don’t need to.