Joffie recently showed me the ESP Game (he’ll probably post about that game someday 
). The ESP Game however showed me a link to Phetch.
The game is simple and addictive (yes, now I have warned you!). You describe a picture you see and the others (who you don’t know) will try to find it. The better you describe it, the faster people can find it. Then it’s the seeker’s turn and you’ll have to hunt down the image. Speed is of essence here. Highly addictive and fun!
Due to the Flickr API, we see new initiatives pop up everywhere. Today I’d like to show you a little game called PhotoSoup. The site itself describes the game as:
PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the puzzle, and only the associated photo is shown as a clue. The objective is to find all hidden tags in the puzzle before you run out of time.
The game is quite simple. Find all the words (tags) that describe the images around the puzzle and select them before you run out of time. Due to some weird tags you can never guess (like “bw”, “joe”, “henry” etc.), you might want to hit the “Show Hints” button. This way, you’ll see the tags you’re expected to find.
Let’s look at a sample game with topic: “geek”
Warning: you may find this game addictive!
A list of the top 10 best games ever should include Pong and Monkey Island (in my humble opinion). After listening to PRESS PLAY ON TAPE’s version of the Monkey Island theme (see a previous blog post), I felt the urge to play these awesome games again. There must be an emulator to play a game like that, right? So I can play these games on Linux, right? There is and it’s called ScummVM.
The name ScummVM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, so yeah, the abbreviation is a lot easier to remember. It’s described as:
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
I was surprised to see how well this worked. Of course you need the original data files of the games (which of course I had laying around … somewhere online …). After loading up Monkey Island, the good old memories made me smile with nostalgia. The extremely funny game is still fun to play!
Other games that can be played through ScummVM include:
And a lot more…
Oh sweet nostalgia!