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Video Games
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Are Video Games Art? - An article by Aaron Smuts discussing
modern art and the role of video games within its definition.
- Computer and Video
Games Survey - Annual quantitative survey to describe gamers
hardware, software and connectivity set-ups.
- Game Config.co.uk -
TCP and UDP port settings for popular online games for Windows,
PlayStation 2, and Xbox.
- Geelix - Social gaming
service for sharing high definition gameplay experiences.
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Genre and the Video Game - An analysis of genre
categorization as applied to video games in contrast with books
and film, with definitions and examples.
- Open Site:
Video Games - A volunteer-run encyclopedia categorized by
genre. Includes information, review overviews, hints, release
dates, and artwork.
- PBS -
The Video Game Revolution - Companion site to the PBS
program, "The Video Game Revolution." Examines the evolution and
history of the video game industry, from the 1950s through
today, the impact of video games on society and culture, and the
future of electronic gaming.
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And Alice Played a Video Game - A study by Souvik Mukherjee
of the relationship between children's fantasy adventure stories
and interactive computer games of American McGee's Alice and
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (June, 2002)
Action
- Adios,
Amoebas - Kill a number of amoebas and advance to the next
level.
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Adveractive: Brunch in Manhattan - Protect the city by
moving a soldier through the streets to shoot aliens in this
online Shockwave game. Includes three rounds of play and a high
score list.
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Ai Pengo - Online Java game played by moving a penguin
through a maze of ice blocks. Complete each level by pushing the
blocks to squash all the monsters. Offers 36 levels and
highscore list.
- Alien
Flashball 3D - Online ball game played in a virtual 3D room.
Includes a highscore list and ability to play offline. Requires
Flash 5 Plug-in.
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Armadillo Cowboy Club - Try to hit five coyotes in sixty
seconds using a lasso or a slingshot in this Flash-based game.
Watch out for bystanders, hit three per round to lose.
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Battlezone in 32 hrs - Coded by Bill Witts who wrote the
original Atari-approved Quicksilva BattleZone game for the
Sinclair ZX Spectrum back in 1983-84.
- Bubble Struggle
- Use a variety of weapons to shoot the bubbles before they hit
the devil in this multi-level online game. Play available for
one or two players. Includes high score list.
- BubbleGame - Click
the bubbles to earn points in this Flash-based game. The smaller
and faster the bubbles the more points awarded.
- Commando Arena -
Flash-based topview combat game against minibots and androids.
- Cops and Robbers
- Move the red dot to avoid the blue dots in this online Flash
game. Includes high score list.
- The Curb
Game - Try to get a hedgehog across the road without getting
hit by a car. Game includes sound effects and a high score list.
Requires Shockwave plugin.
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Defend The LCP - Defend The London College of Printing. A
flash 5 game by Andrew Kendall.
- Donde vas Nicolas
- A flash game relating to the December holiday.
- Don's
Dugout - Digging Java game. Dig your way underground to
collect buried money bags. Use your bicycle pump to explode
enemies.
Adventure
- Adventure
Classic Gaming - About classic adventure games and
interactive fiction. Offers news, reviews, cheats, galleries,
and a forum.
- Adventure Games
Hall of Fame, The - Adventure game spoilers, walkthroughs,
tips, hints, solutions, pictures and reviews.
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Adventure Games Home Page - Links to reviews, previews,
walkthroughs, patches and saved games.
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Adventureland - A categorized list of adventure games
produced over the years, broken down by company. Also lists game
systems, Interpreters and emulators.
- Annual Interactive Fiction
Competition, The - The free interactive fiction competition
judged by readers of rec.arts.int-fiction.
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Balrog, The - A homage to the Amstrad adventure scene.
- Brass Lantern - News,
articles, and interviews about adventure games, edited by Steven
Granade.
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Cyberpunk games - Site discusses many cyberpunk games (or
heavily influence by cyberpunk) including various text and
graphic adventure games from 1984 to 2003.
- Download
Interactive Fiction Games - Contains authoring tools, games,
program manuals, and frequently asked questions.
- GameBoomers -
Includes PC game walkthroughs, hints and cheats, discussion
forums, list of game publishers and official sites, game reviews
and previews.
Board Games
- ContraPloy - Free,
turn-based, two-player strategy board game with hidden piece
values that change with terrain. Includes annual tournament and
message board.
- CrossCheck
- Slide pieces down the intersecting slots to be the first
player to get four in a row in this online strategy board game.
Played against the computer.
- Final Conquest -
Multiplayer strategy game of world conquest similar to Risk.
Offers rules, FAQ, rankings, and forum.
- Pacru - Strategic board
game playable by two to four players. Also offers single player
game against the computer. Includes rules and downloadable game
for offline play.
- Star Fleet Battles Online
- SFB Online is an internet-based Star Fleet Battles tournament
game service. Subscribers will be able to play SFB tournament
games over the internet with SFB players around the world.
- Atlantic Games -
Offers online correspondence games including Chess, Checkers,
Reversi, and variants. Includes tournaments, rankings, and
upgraded membership option.
- BrainKing.com -
Turn-based board games against live opponents including Chess,
Checkers, Backgammon, Reversi, and Five in Line. Includes teams,
tournaments, and chat.
- BrettspielWelt -
Play over 70 board games (including Carcassonne, Cartagena and
Trans America) either in your browser or using a separate
client. [German, English]
- Chat'n'Brett -
Offers a variety of games and puzzles. Features links to related
sites and chat.
- Darkfish Games -
Selection of Java board games playable against the computer.
Includes Checkers, Reversi, Five Field Kono, Nim Skulls,
Pentalpha, and Taxi.
- Game Colony -
Multi-player realtime games online. Chat with other players.
- The Game
Room - Play classic board games, like chess, draughts and
backgammon or test yourself with brain teasers, puzzles and
trivia.
Music And Dance
- bemanistyle.com -
Covers multiple games, with news, media files, forums,
tutorials, and release dates.
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Konami Music Games Forum - Forum at Konami of America's
official site for players to voice their opinions.
- Team Bemani UK
- Information on the world record holder. Offers photographs,
codes, and United Kingdom game locations.
Pinball
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Dragon Hunter Pinball for Palm OS - A shareware pinball game
for Palm OS organizers.
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LittleWing Pinball - Official site including Tristan,
Crystal Caliburn, Loony Labyrinth, Angel Egg, Golden Logres and
Jinni Zeala.
- Pinball Zone -
Offers online pinball games for download.
- FileRadar - Offers
links to mods, demos, patches and related files. Links are
user-submitted and other users vote up or down the best ones.
Platform
- The Adventures of
Jason - Java platformer in which one or more players jump
around in a rectangular world, trying to catch stars and shoot
each other. [Open Source, GPL]
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BurgerSpace - BurgerTime clone for Linux, Windows, Mac, or
BeOS in which you are a chef and must collect ingredients to
make burgers.
- Ladder - A
classic ASCII based arcade game similar to Donkey Kong.
(Requires the Java runtime environment.)
- Robot Battle - An
evolving programming game that allows players to design and
build intelligent robots using a simple scripting language.
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Super Pooch - A scrolling platformer for Windows similar to
Super Mario.
- TurboLode -
3D derivation of the game 'Lode Runner' for Windows with a real
time stereoscopic mode.
- VideoToons
- Multiplayer Java platformer. [Open Source, GPL]
Puzzles
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ADDiction - Solve each Java-based puzzle by swapping pairs
of adjacent numbered tiles whose sum is a multiple of 3 or 5.
Available for play online, or download.
- AOL
Games - Puzzles - Offers online and downloadable puzzle
games.
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Blueee's Number Puzzle - Online game that displays a random
choice of one of 15,000 different math puzzles. Six nested
equations are shown with icons instead of digits. Find the
digits to solve the puzzle.
- Brainwave -
Determine the shape that doesn't fit in this series of ten
visual logic puzzles. Solve all ten and get a top 5% brain
award.
- Caught At Work
Productions - Offers a new brain teaser each Thursday, plus
archive of past puzzles.
Wordgames
Chatterbots
- Ai Research -
Focuses on creating genuine Artificial Intelligence - the
technology that enables machines to converse with humans in
natural language. Based on a groundbreaking approach, Ai's
technology will pass the Turing Test for machine intelligence by
2011.
- AI Buddy - Personal
chat bots for use with AOL Instant Messenger.
- ALIMbot
- Hobby project written in Visual Basic 6.0 by M.F. Wahid. ALIM,
in Classical Arabic, means the one who has knowledge. ALIMbot is
an Artificially Intelligent chatbot that tries to effectively
react to the user input.
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Android - Downloadable software that refers to a
user-extensible digital knowledgebase.
- Answerpad -
Downloadable program which answers questions based on past
memorized conversations. Compatible with Microsoft Agent
characters.
- Arthur the
Chatterbot - Developed by the Kingston school of Information
Systems.
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Artificial Intelligent Robots - The home of the chatterbot
Talk-Bot, which uses smiley faces to express emotions and small
icons to enhance the conversation.
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Arty Fishal - Web-based bot attempting to simulate an insane
asylum resident.
- Ask ALEX -
Experimental bot programmed to help users find legal information
on JURIST: The Legal Education Network, and elsewhere online.
- The Billy Project
- Chat bot Billy, available for download.
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