Category: Games

What’s the meaning of Life, the board game? I was delighted to find that my friend David Argellies bought a copy of this Milton Bradley classic at a yard sale. (Also, it turns out the the game is called “Destins” in French, which only ups the charm.) Along with Monopoly and Hotels, this is one…

American news sites are betting big on video games. But are they just the same old ideas? The New York Times had an article early in the summer about how news websites are turning to video games to gain subscribers and entice them to come back regularly. They mention newspapers such as The Washington Post,…

CRISPR Crunch is a fast-paced puzzle game for mobile, in which the player fends off waves after wave of attacking viruses. To kill a virus, you match the sequence of colors on the virus DNA with those in the hexagonal grid in the center of the screen. The basic gameplay is pretty simple – the player…

Originally posted on playcurious.games Our game CRISPR Crunch is a fast-paced puzzle game for mobile, in which the player fends off waves of attacking viruses by matching the sequence of colors on the virus DNA with those in the hexagonal grid in the center of their screen.  But it didn’t start this way! At first, CRISPR Crunch…

Reposted from the Gamelier I have such strong memories of first playing “Another World”, aka. “Out of this World.” A friend lent me a floppy disk with it on it, and I loaded it up my parent’s PC without any idea of what it was. The lack of introduction only amplified the mystique of starting…

Reposted from the Gamelier Creating games from scratch is hard. What if we could “remix” existing games, just like we do for music? That was the aim of the RedWire game jam that took place in Paris over the weekend of July 25-27. The event was a collaboration between four organizations: the Center for Interdisciplinary…