March 20, 2008
Launchball - Speaking of science+games... the top web award @ SxSWi went to Launchball, and after taking an illicit peek I can see why. Roughly quoting the whole of their acceptance speech, "We designed a game called launch ball where you learn science by launching a ball. And now we've won an award for it. Pretty remarkable, really. Thank you." It's as addictive as Portal or Lemmings or Tower Defense, but with a very well thought out science education component that enriches the whole thing.
They go into significantly more detail in this blog post about the development process, an interesting peek behind the scenes. A bit surprised to hear no mention of Lemmings, though, as these guys obviously agree that Lemmings is the greatest game ever created. (Wrote this up, saw Valanyn's directly-related post, posting anyway.)
Yeah, I second the recommendation. I played through it last week after hearing all the SXSWi hype. Springs are overpowered though. I can't wait until the nerf them in 2.4.
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This reminds me very much of The Incredible Machine series of games (which Ned was talking about last night). Lots of fun, those. This is also crazy fun, I played all the way through.
posted by natedogg at 05:41PM CST on March 20