The native language of video games is neither spoken nor written

I remember this essay shaking things up, w/r/t content and it's very presentation. At the time, I had no idea who Superbrothers was.

A scary little minimalist flash game. It's amazing what good sound design can do for you.

Andy Baio launches a platform for creating your own text-based adventures.

A simple and fun particle system game in HTML5.

A huge, free collection of Zelda-inspired game music by various artists. Class act.

A nice HTML5 puzzle game about love, gravity and spikes that can kill you.

Another @Vlambeer endeavor:

Players all over the world played to save GlitchHiker from extinction and failed: GlitchHiker is a game that has gone extinct. Every successful attempt at collecting more than a hundred points restored the games’ system resources globally and every failure slowly destroyed it.

As the game system withered, increased amount of glitches appeared in the graphics, music, controls and gameplay. As soon as the game would run out of its resources, it would go extinct and become permanently unplayable, not just for that player or for a limited time – it would go extinct for everyone and forever.

A new Kickstarter-funded publication on art-game design. Intro video has artwork by Superbrothers.

Donkey-Kong-meets-platformer. A free indie game by Vlambeer, with worldwide online leaderboards. Wowowowow!

Lovely art/arcade games from a Dutch independent studio.

The guy behind the original Prince of Persia game blogs profusely and answers reader questions about making games. He also created an e-book -- excerpts from his journals when he was developing the Prince of Persia game.

Commercial HTML5 Game written with ImpactJS

A game that scores you based on your kerning solutions, with HTML5, Javascript, SVG. Awesome.

Intro screens from low-res games. I love what a bit of constraint does for design.

300 ideas for game mechanics. Kind of cool.

Computer:~ user$ "A video game in the spirit of WAR GAMES." --HACK --HACK --HACK

5-year-old girl designs a video game.

Another gravity-flipping game. This time with the "running guy" mechanic.

This game has a beautiful moveset and an interesting game mechanic: reverse gravity instead of jumping.