Augmented Reality Game!

                  

This is a video about an augmented reality game called Levelhead by Julian Olivier that uses special cubes to interact with a character inside them. Augmented reality is a recent technology that's slowly becoming mainstream and I think that's awesome because the gameplay possibilities are immense. From the developer's website:

"levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.

Some doors lead nowhere and will send the character back to the room they started in, a trick designed to challenge the player's spatial memory. Which doors belong to which rooms?"

The objective of this particular game is to find the exit of the house. So what do you think? Games like this are already possible for Iphone and Android devices, some Augmented Reality games are already in the market. It's just a matter of time before we see something more complex and engaging.

Cuboy Quest, a puzzle game about a cubical cowboy!

In Cuboy Quest you move with "W, A, S D" or the Arrow Keys and shoot bullets with your mouse cursor with the objective of hitting the red target(s) to open a door to the next level. Sometimes you have to think a little bit before shooting but not always.

The game is very easy but that easiness allowed me to play level after level without getting tired, so I think it's perfect if you want to take a quick break. Enjoy!

Check this out: Delicious Skittles video game art!

These incredible and tasty works of art were made by DeviantART artist Matt McManis who now has a website dedicated to his skittle art (visit it here) but he regularly accepts submissions by other artists too. I think they look pretty cool. More of his artwork (including animated ones) inside this post! Enjoy!  

Lovely yoshi.

           

Jumping and shooting.

Tanooki suit was the best.

Video games in real life: Duck Hunt

Two Youtube users and aspiring filmmakers (SoKrispyMedia) uploaded a video that pays homage to the classic Duck Hunt game in the NES. In case you don't remember, Duck Hunt was the game where you shot flying ducks with the stylish orange gun included with the NES (NES Zapper).

In my opinion, the only fault of the video is that the dog doesn't appear in it.

   

Space is key, a simple, addictive game.

Space is key is a simple game with simple gameplay: you use spacebar to jump the different obstacles that are in your way. The thing is that jumping those obstacles is more complicated than it sounds. Each level brings a new way of testing your reflexes and the timing of your jumps but even if I failed horribly I found myself trying again and again.

Space is key uses minimalistic graphics. Nothing fancy here just colored blocks but it didn't bother me at all, this is one of those little games where gameplay is everything.

It was created by Chris Jeff, you can visit  his website here. I hope you enjoy it, try to to make it to level 15!

Link to the game: http://armorgames.com/play/10912/space-is-key

Wanna play the World's Biggest Pac-Man?

A little fraction of the available mazes.

I hope you like Pac-Man because today's post is about the World's Biggest Pac-Man!! This website is epic! There are hundreds of interconnected mazes for everyone to roam while swallowing magic pills and eating scared ghosts! You can play in it without registering, but if you login with Facebook you can create your own levels and connect them to the others! (click here to play net critter's maze). Enjoy!

Link to the site: http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/

Someone made music out of Super Mario World.

     

Imagine building a complex customized level in Super Mario World, then synchronizing every sound effect of the game (the sound of a power-up, an enemy stomp, yoshi, eating a mushroom, etc) and the timing of Mario jumps with absolute precision, all of this to make them sound like a song; actually like a lot of songs! (mostly anime songs though). As the description of the original video says:

"Countless koopas were damaged in the production of this film"

Please enjoy!

Via reddit

Game of the day: Jeu Chiant!

I challenge you to last more than 20 seconds in this game! The objective of Jeu Chiant is to balance a ball in a platform while hitting another ball with a 'brick-breaker' style bar, moving both with your mouse. Go try it and post your highscore here! The game is in french but I don't think any translation is needed to play it, enjoy!

Link to the game: http://dagobah.net/flash/jeu_chiant.swf

Shy Guy becomes Tough Guy

This custom action figure by Jin Saotome shows a not-so-Shy Guy from the Super Mario Bros world, handling weapons with a whole new attitude:

This figure was sold in ebay a couple of days ago for several hundred dollars. Jin Saotome is now selling a figure based on another Super Mario Bros. character, a 'Snifit'

 What do you think about these figures, would you buy a Mario Bros game with realistic characters?

Mario Portals!

Last week I posted about a game that combines Super Mario Bros with Tetris! But now I found a new game that's still in development but looks very promising nonetheless: Mario Portals! The gameplay possibilities are inmense! Check out this video, I think it looks awesome:



The video also shows the level editor. As you can see, in this game Mario can make portals, as in Portal and Portal 2 and use them to advance further in the levels. So what do you guys think, would you play it?

Game of the day! Music Catch 2

The game of the day is called Music Catch 2, the instructions are very simple, using your mouse you have to catch all the good shapes (which are musical notes) while avoiding the bad ones, the blue and green shapes are your score, the yellow ones are score multiplier and the purple ones are power-ups, the bad shapes are the red ones and diminish your score-multiplier.

Music Catch 2 is a very relaxing game, the shapes flow with the rhythm of the music and the gameplay let's you enjoy the melody in an interactive way. After playing for the first time you can add any mp3 you want for the music as you long as you have its URL. I hope you like it!

Link to the game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Reflexive/music-catch-2?acomplete=music+catch

Continuity

Continuity is a game that's half-platformer half-puzzle. You control a little guy with the arrow keys and your goal is finding a door and the key to that door in each level, but the levels are made of sliding tiles that you have to arrange in different ways to be able to get the key. You switch between platformer and tile-sliding mode with spacebar!

Continuity was created by Elias Holmlid, Dmitry Kurteanu, Guy Lima Jr and Stefan Mikaelsson all of them students of Chalmers university of technology in Sweden.

They're releasing an Ipad, Iphone and Ipod touch version of the game, you can visit the site here!

I hope you like it!

Link to the game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/glimajr/continuity

Awesome video game sculptures!

 Today I wanna show you the work of an artist named Jaime Margary. He makes gorgeous sculptures and a lot of them are based on video game characters, but what I think is really cool about his work is that the sculptures are realistic in the sense that if Piranha plants existed in real life they would look like this:

Nice teeth!

I really like this pacman!

Enjoy! You can visit the artist's profile here: http://kalapusa.deviantart.com/

Tuper Tario Tros.

What happens if you combine Super Mario Bros. with Tetris? This game is the result. Mostly you run around playing Mario until you can't advance any further, then you switch to Tetris mode to build structures that you climb.

I found it quite entertaining, with the end of the first level being particularly challenging! You control Mario with the arrow keys, switch between Tetris and Mario mode with the 'Spacebar' and rotate the pieces with 'X'. Enjoy!

Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276

Real life Super Mario Bros video.

What would happen if you could suddenly enter a SMB simulation while taking a walk in the park? This isn't the greatest video of all time, but I think it looks cool! I hope you enjoy it!

But seriously, what's up with gun?

Apparently the guy (or guys?) that made the video likes to make short action scenes from videogames like Call of Duty, that of course involve weapons. Either way, be sure to watch his other videos; they're mostly about special effects.

Cooperate with yourself!

This game is called Cursor * 10, the objective is to make it up to the 16th floor by solving puzzles in each floor, but some of them are cooperative puzzles and the only way to get through is with your own help!

You have 10 turns to control your mouse cursor, but your cursor dies after a certain time has passed, what you did in that turn gets recorded, though, so your own progress helps you advance to the next floor! It's pretty easy to understand once you play it! So far I've only made it to the 10th floor!

I hope you enjoy it!

link: http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

Update: I'm now at floor 15 but can't seem to reach floor 16, if anyone finds out how to do it, please leave a comment!

Redder

Redder  is a flash game that is all about world exploration. You're a little astronaut stranded in an alien world. The game presents little puzzles that are based on switching green and red blocks that make up the platforms in the world and your main objective is to gather the gems that are scattered around.

    

The controls are simple, you move with the arrow keys and jump with either 'z' 'shift' 'spacebar' or the 'up' key. You enter the map with 'M'.

The game world is huge, but don't worry, the game keeps track of the last checkpoint you passed through even if you close your browser or turn off your computer. Play it here!

Super Mario Trippy Levels

I found this weird video of a lost level in Super Mario Bros. The game is supposed to end on world 8, but according to the comments in the video and google translate, you can access world 9 with some arcane methods like turning of your NES quickly, re-inserting the cartridge, resetting and some variations of that. It's also very likely that someone just made this levels up in an editor. Whether it's true or not I like the colors and design of the levels. Here's the video:

    

According to the comments in the video (translated from japanese) you can access the levels like this way:


Indeed, I think it was like this.
1) Mario startup screen, and run out of power, a cassette of a suddenPull
2) Put a tray of tennis, a positive screen by pressing the reset button a few times I will always play tennis
3) turning off the power supply, replace the cassette Mario
4) to start the game properly reset button on the screen, and seen They come out at random surface


 If you finish the game without warping in Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan) you get to a similar set of aquatic levels after world 8, but they seem to be different to the levels found in this video.

Soul Brother

I just played this flash platformer called Soul Brother by Jasper Byrne and it's one of the most imaginative and colorful games I've played. The music and gameplay are simply fabulous and it sports an 8-bit aesthetic that delights me. Be sure to play it!

Completely awesome game.

Soul Brother

Minecraft in space

Do you like Minecraft? If you haven't heard about this game yet Minecraft is an indie game focused in surviving and building stuff out of blocks, it's as fun as playing with legos but in a PC and online. Recently it has inspired new games based on the block-building mechanic. One of those games is Blockade Runner which innovates by bringing the game to space:



Now, what about minecraft in 2D, just check this out, this game is called Terraria and Minecraft developer Notch posted about it in his twitter account bringing it to further fame:



I really like the kind of games that let you interact with the world and build stuff. These two games are still in development but the teams behind them are advancing really fast, I'll be posting more about these games in the future, stay tuned!