2006 TOP 10 Games of the Year by Game Tunnel

Game Tunnel has posted the annual list of the top indie games of the year. I could only check out Titan Attacks since it was the only one available for the Mac, but it was worth it. Twitchy good fun and, as Game Tunnel points out, excellent upgrades. A lot of care went into this one!

2006 TOP 10 Games of the Year by Game Tunnel

UPDATE: the results are in!

Predictions, Apollo and Widgetization - Part 2

Continuing my rant about the power of RIAs and how significant they should be in the coming year, i need to say it: The Browser is a Middleman.With all the discussion of the power of decentralized apps, people seem to losing site of the browser. To me, the browser is the middleman in all of this — a necessary step that will be evolved out of its current existence like the cd-rom. Why, you ask? I’ll tell you…

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DICEWARS

DICEWARS is one of the most addictive casual games I’ve played in a long time. Reminds me of playing b&w Risk on my Mac Classic but with some differences in how your “troops” get allocated.

I was happy to see that Ryan Dewsbury put together a multiplayer version, and it raised a question we think a lot about here - what other single-player games would make good multiplayer games? Post your answers in the comments.

Predictions, Apollo and Widgetization - Part 1

The end of the year always brings the inevitable lists of predictions for the year upcoming. This year is no different, and frankly I’m a sucker for them in any form. At Read/Write Web they’ve published the initial results of their readers poll predicting the Biggest Web Trend of 2007 and the results are interesting.While I can’t say it’s shocking that web video is the big vote getter, I’m surprised to see RIAs fall so low on people’s radar. Not to say that mobile web won’t improve drastically (because it has such a long way to go) but I think browser-based apps are somewhat overvalued here. Now perhaps people are being way more discerning than I am and are calculating release dates and penetration time for Apollo and competitors and that browser-based apps will still rule in 07 before RIAs make a surge in 08. I could accept that… I think.

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Speaking of flOw - Best of 2006

Best of Best of Casual Gameplay 2006

Jay Bibby over at the excellent Jay Is Games blog has listed a gaggle of contenders across multiple categories - including the aforementioned flOw. Many games to be “tested” and voted on, so get to it!