It didn’t make me, but after I couldn’t name all the Peters I know on Facebook, I was shamed into unfriending a couple, plus some Jameses and a Michelle.
Who Do You Know? is a simple new game by the guys behind Who Is the Most Famous?. You login with Facebook, it gives you the first name of one of your friends, and you have to fill in the last name. Then you get really depressed at how little you remember your “friends”.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m playing Draw Something. It’s on mobile devices and Facebook, and it’s delightful. You draw a word for a friend, they guess what it is, then you switch places.
The fun is in watching your friends try to convey ideas with sketches clumsily drawn on smartphones. As I mentioned last week on the Slacktory Tumblr, I’ve seen some great drawings. Your friends will surprise you with absurd references to unexpected things. A friend drew me a werewolf and included a basketball hoop (an excellent Teen Wolf reference). Little touches like that make the game great.
However, not everyone tries so hard. I’m playing a couple games with strangers, and, to put things gently: they are the worst. I don’t know why they even bother.
I recently started playing Draw Something. It’s a free game for iPhone and Facebook in which you and a friend take turns guessing what the other person drew. It’s like Words With Friends in that you can juggle 10 games at once, but it’s much better. Receiving a goofy Spider-Man sketch because your partner had to draw “VENOM” is much better than returning to a Words With Friends board to find out your friend has spelled “VENOM” on a triple word tile and now you’re down 50 points and you just realized you hate this stupid game anyway.
When I first started playing Draw Something, I didn’t know anybody else who played, so I let the game partner me up with strangers. The thing is, I’m pretty sure those strangers were much younger than me. At least, I’m assuming they’re younger because I imagine teenagers just wander through the internet like lost babies stumbling through a shopping mall, just wide-eyed and lost and not paying attention, so of course they’d play most of their online games with total strangers.
More judging of teenagers plus a bad drawing of a notepad after the jump. »
The “Who Is The Most Famous?” game asks a simple question: Who is the most famous person named “Mark?” You guess, and you get Family-Feud-style points for guessing the same as most people. Then you complete another name, and another until you are 85 and what happened to your life?
I feel really proud when one of the “smart” names is the most famous, but then I see that the most famous Jackson is “Jackson Michael”.
By the way, it hangs sometimes. Just refresh the page.
The new Grand Theft Auto 5 trailer is out! Aaaaaaaaaah it’s a computer game everyone is excited yay! And it shows that like all GTA games, this one will be full of fake products and slogans. Here are the best 13 14 I spotted.
The creator of Achievement Unlocked and every other good Flash game recently released Coinbox Hero, which takes a Mario-like coinbox hit to a leveling-up extreme, then gives a satisfying ending after all the inane clicking.
Cow Clicker, now in its second year, is a wonderpressingly* thorough parody of FarmVille and other compulsion-driven Facebook games. Install the app like any other Facebook game, and you get a cow to click once every six hours.
You can buy different cow avatars, share your clicks on your wall, click your friends’ cows, and buy (with actual money) the chance to click more often. There’s also an ominous countdown to a self-destruct that you can delay by spending Facebook credits (which you buy with actual money), a mockery of the blatant greed of game makers like Zynga.
In other words, it’s an obvious waste of time. And yet compulsion will easily drive you to spend a half hour maxing out your clicks or playing the Bejeweled parody minigame. You might even briefly consider spending some leftover Facebook credits on this bullshit.
Application developer ZeptoLab has partnered with Ape Entertainment to produce a digital comic book and graphic novel series based on Om Nom, the voracious candy-eating creature featured throughout the game.
— Mashable, “Exclusive: ‘Cut the Rope’ Licenses Comic Book Series”
INT. BASEMENT – NIGHT
A boy, eleven, is tied up in the corner with crudely knotted rope. Around him are piles of discarded packaging: potato chip bags, candy bar wrappers, juice boxes. He is bloodied but defiant.
FROM OFF-PANEL: How do you like your concrete box?
BOY: You’re a monster.
Amazon has recently hired a noted RPG designer, Jonathan Tweet, to design a social game for them.
Social games coming up from Amazon:
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