Jason Rohrer’s Diamond Trust of London requires you to bribe opposing diamond agents, all while your opponent bribes yours. It feels like a German board game, but playing on the DS makes secret decisions possible. Gus Mastrapa at Paste magazine discusses the game’s possible commentary on business t
An ambitious Kickstarter project called Brainworth wants to make a set of games that will teach principles of computer science. Games in development have players developing an AI to play Snake for them and making behavior trees. You could just play RoboZZle if you like ordering commands, but a frien
The upcoming PS3 game Puppetter looks a little like LittleBigPlanet, with its bright style and paper-like visuals. But the game has more than a little Tim Burton in it. Game director Gavin Moore tells Wired his inspiration for the game: Basically, I’m making this game for my [eight-year-old] son. I
Steam’s Greenlight system, where users vote on the games they’d like to see sold on Steam, has stopped listing the most popular games. Hiding this information suggests that Valve wants users to vote for games not based on how popular they are, but if they look cool. It also means that developers can
Fanfiction is easier to write than regular fiction, because the characters and world are already invented. For the Adventure Time Game Jam last weekend, having a ready-made universe let jammers focus on making games! Here are three of my favorites: Noire Time There’s not much to do, but the pixel ar
