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3:27 am Wed
Aug 19, 2015
Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North found himself stuck in a skateboarding pit with his dog, Chompsky, an umbrella, a leash, a t-shirt, and a pocket computer. To escape, he played Twitter like a text adventure.
Click through for the full gameplay report; the solution was, of course, combining two inventory items in a way that makes no sense whatsoever. Life imitates art—and validates the existential truth of badly-designed puzzles. [via Polygon]
What Remains of Edith Finch is free this month from the Epic store. I downloaded it last night and couldn’t stop playing until I was done. It’s a detailed, polished walking simulator that clocks in at 3 hours, so tightly orchestrated it feels like a genuinely interactive movie. It centers on Edith, a high schooler […]
Fortnite Battle Royale is constantly adding new items, weapons, vehicles and locations. The latest? The Sneaky Snowman. The winter-themed map has a lot of Snowmen hanging around it. Now you can disguise yourself as one and sneak up on folks. Snowmen can’t build or use weapons, but they can throw snowballs and act as a […]
The Domain Name Pricing Game is surprisingly addictive and rather surreal. I’m terrible at it though. Martin O’Leary created the game based on an idea by Holly Gramazio. “Please don’t buy any of these domains,” O’Leary writes. “They’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters.” The Domain Name Pricing Game (via Waxy)
For the newbie, Python can seem like the most intimidating programming language. After all, it can be used to create everything from simple apps to vast networks of web crawlers. But there are fundamental principles that underlie all the uses of this versatile platform, and you can absorb them all with the Python Master Class […]
Building a website on WordPress has always been easy. But if you really want to make your website stand out from the growing crowd, you’re going to need some help. For our money, a subscription to Storeshock WordPress Themes & Elements does the trick almost as well as having a pro designer by your side […]
These days, there isn’t much our iPhone camera can’t do – except feel like an actual phone. Despite years of steadily increasing resolution and image sensing technology, we’re still taking shots awkwardly with two hands, fumbling for the shutter button. Leave it to an avid photographer to design Shuttercase, a versatile iPhone case that solves […]
