Hateris

"hey, have you seen this game? it's basically tetris, but you always get the exact piece you DON'T want. at first it's humorous, but then you want to break your computer.

http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

enjoy!"


(From W.D. )

Taberinos

Taberinos is a simple-yet-addictive online flash game set to a demure tango. It's a cross between a pool table, spiderwebs, and a load of heroin. Basically every time the ball knocks into a white line, it disappears. Your goal is to make them all disappear. However, you have a limited number of shots, and regular nodes, angry nodes, and more to deal with.

I'm not sure why exactly, but the physics of this game seems ever-so-slightly off to me. It wants you to do things like hit tight corners right away.

Seriously, I wasted all afternoon on this already, and I'm only up to level 12. OMG I hope I don't have to drop out of school because of AN ONLINE FLASH GAME. And BTW... how do these people score HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of points on this thing? How?! Clearly I'm not using the angry nodes to their full potential.

Enjoy!

(From Kottke)

Harmony

Harmony is an online drawing java application by Mr.doob (Ricardo Cabello) that allows your sketches to look all tricked out with shading, and fur, and circles, and other odd brushes.

The metafilter post about it claimed it made your shitty drawings look less shitty. This is a controversial statement, but it did bring me joy.

Enjoy!

(From Mefi)

First Person Tetris

First Person Tetris is a take on Tetris that I've never seen before!

When the game starts up, you see what appears to be Tetris playing on a TV- with a VCR on top and everything. When you flip the pieces... the TV and entire setting flip!

Try it out... it'll blow your mind!


(From Neatorama)

FIGHTING DIRTY IN SCRABBLE

FIGHTING DIRTY IN SCRABBLE is a video about how win dirty. I don't play enough scrabble to comment on the merits of this video. According to the author, "Scrabble isn't a game of who can get the best 6 letter words. It's a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners."

I've been playing it wrong all along.

(From Kottke)

Cheese or Font

Cheese or Font is a self-explanatory game where you get to guess if the word is a cheese or font.

(From MT, who got it from Serious Eats)

Pixel

Pixel is a Kongregate game where you move with the mouse and click to shoot. You collect points by destroying enemies and collecting pixels. Hitting a pixel will cause it to shoot back out of your ship.

Comes with bonus pixely-sounding electronic intro music, and exciting drum music later on. It's more fun than that picture looks.


PS: Yeeeeeey birthday! (From Kottke)

Gauging Your Distraction

Gauging Your Distraction is an online New York Times game by Gabriel Dance, Tom Jackson and Aron Pilhofer that tests how well you mutitask by having you change lanes while driving and texting.

According to the authors: "New studies show that drivers overestimate their ability to multitask behind the wheel. This game measures how your reaction time is affected by external distractions. Regardless of your results, experts say, you should not attempt to text when driving."

Except for me, apparently. See results above. 

(From The Gray Lady)

Wiki Trivia

Wiki Trivia is an online trivia game by Alex Ksikes and Philipp Lenssen made from Wikipedia entries. Basically, it pulls up quotes from a wikipedia page, and replaces defined nouns with questions marks. You have to guess what is being talked about.

It's fun, for like, 5 seconds. Enjoy.

(From Metafilter)

Ninja Ropes Extreme is an online game, where you, the ninja, must cross obstacles by sending out and swinging from ninja ropes.

According Appscout, it was featured in the DVD of the Dr. Horrible sing-along blog,

"About halfway through the commentary, Jed Whedon, Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris sing an ode to an iPhone Web game called "Ninja Ropes Extreme," which they all played during filming and which brought them all together."

Enjoy!

(From Justin, Dr. Horrible).

Every Second Counts

Every Second Counts is a game by Ze Frank where you have to hold your mouse button down for a target amount of time (within an error of plus or minus 0.1 seconds). It starts with 0.2 seconds and increases by 0.2 with each level up.  

It's less of a game and more of art.

According to Ze: "I use scale as a way to brainstorm ideas around a theme. I try to imagine certain elements of the theme at extreme scale to see if it generates ideas..."

"...Another less straightforward example is the absurdist game 'every second counts'. The increasing stretches of time and anticipation vs. the small gesture of the mouse button. I find this juxtaposition of scale in things that make me laugh... For example the crude and silly joke: 'I have to go poop.' stated seriously followed by an utterance of the word 'poop'. It only works for me if the sound is small. A little throw away."

Enjoy!

(From Kottke)

Brown Dyed Hotel Puzzle

Brown Dyed Hotel Puzzle is an online game with no instructions. The goal is to progress through the levels without getting bored.

Just click click click until you move on to a different puzzle. 

It was made by a group of nordic supernerds: "Brown Dyed Hotel is a group of students from Campus Karlshamn of Blekinge Institute of Technology. Together we have brought Ether to life in 15 weeks.

Programmer: Roger Skogh
3D Artist: Peter Löfgren 
3D Artist & Animator: Daniel Palm 
3D Artist: Mattias Jansson 
2D Artists: Filip Otto, Emil Johansson"

It was fun until I got distracted by shiny objects.

(From Mefi)

Type Racer

Type Racer is a superfun game about... typing. Basically you try to beat other people by out-typing them.

You watch your little car race at the top. The faster you type, the faster it goes. You just enter the text at the bottom, and it doesn't move on until you have 100% accuracy, which totally hurts you if you always wiat for Word to fix your msitakes. WAIT.

The texts are goofy and random, and it brings me back fond memories of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Yeah, it's super-nerdy, and super-awesome. ENJOY!!!

(From Type Racer)

Helicopter Game

Helicopter Game is an oldie-but-goodie simple computer game. You're a helicopter. Pressing the mouse button makes the 'copter go up, not-pressing it makes it fall down.  Time makes it go forward, and crashing into obstacles makes you lose.

According to one Cammie, "Here's one that took up a good half of my freshman year of college."

Voilá.

(From CamBo)

Shift 3

Shift 3 is the latest iteration of the Shift game on Kongregate.  You run around a maze with the right and left arrows, jump using the space bar, and shift to turn things upside down and make spaces into surfaces and surfaces into space.

If it sounds confusing, that's because it's hard to explain but easy to play. Incredibly addictive, and the "surprises" scared the wits out of me.

(From your mom)

Zilch

Zilch is a 5-dice game of chance that imitates Yahtzee. It's awesome.

(From Buzzfeed)
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BONUS! An entry killed before it could be published due to a removed Youtube link:

Young Sarah Silverman was a Youtube video from Jimmi Kimmel's show showing a young Sarah Silverman. Sarah went on her boyfriend's show to promote her Comedy Central series. The re-united couple dance around the awkward situation of what happened in the interim of their semi-recent break-up, and use a tape from the early cenozoic era as a distractor. Youtube totally rained on my parade and took the video down. 

(From Buzzfeed)

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Welcome to Webcomic Week here on TOTI!























Ctrl+Alt+Del is a gaming webcomic by professional web-cartoonist Tim Buckley. Wikipedia points out that since inception, "The comic's focus has gradually shifted away from single strip gags towards longer story arcs and greater continuity." Also, Tim has been able to stay financially afloat by adding a fee-based members-only features and publishing a book. Ctrl+Alt+Del is currently updated on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday schedule.

The comics focus on Ethan and Lucas:

"Ethan currently works in a video game store called Game Haven. Lucas works tech support at a local computer shop. Scott is a freelance web designer. The other characters have jobs as well."

(FAQ)

It's super game-nerd-core, which means to understand the comics, you have to either be (physically or spiritually) a 15 year old adolescent or have lived in close proximity to one. Enjoy.

(From Wikipedia, Guy)