‘A complete from scratch recreation of Super Mario Bros. with a focus on perfectly imitating the feel the 1985 classic gave us. Then give Mario a portal gun, add puzzle game mechanics from Portal and there you go. And if that wasn't crazy enough, play 4-player coop, with everyone having their own Portal gun!’

‘Most gamification sucks because it breaks down our humanity like it is no more than a computer program that needs to be understood and then rewritten for maximum reward—reward for the company behind it, rather than for the player. That's how gamification is disrespectful: because it no longer treats us like people.’

The gamification of Congress, and why it won’t work.

The story of Jason Rohrer’s ‘Chain World’, a customized fork of Minecraft of which there is only a single copy available on a USB stick and which is meant to be played only once, following a strict set of commandments, and then passed on to someone else. It’s meant to be a game about religion.

The creator of 'Passage', that life-story game-as-art Flash game.

A really excellent Flash game.

On what Farmville is (not a game) and what it means (nothing good).

A running and jumping game with one button that I can't stop playing.

A Flash game in the vein of Jason Rohrer's 'Passage'. It sort of picks up where Passage leaves off. Minorly challenging, stylish, and a dark, fun story to play.

Cute and well-done.

Creatively-captioned NES screenshots. "The problem with me and video games is that I want them to love me as much as I love them and they can't, so I have to fill in the blanks myself."

Hehe.

First-person pinball.

Instant trivia.

A stunning game of 20 Questions

"We use computers... to make video games!" Games, music, and more.

"Board games have grown up, too. In the last 15 years a new breed of game has hit the market, those designed specifically for adults."

"The Wiki Game is an hypertextual game designed to work specifically with Wikipedia." This is actually more fun than it seems it might be.

"I have no idea what this card might be referring to, and I was afraid to ask."