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Sunday, November 8, 2009
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Saturday Timewaster: Bloktonik

8:00AM Owen Good | Tipster BulletProof found this Tetrisesque block puzzle with an entrancing soundtrack and passes it along. But more curiously, “Bloktonik” seems to be in development for WiiWare (and for mobile), with a release date TBA. More »
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Monday, October 5, 2009
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Long Weekend Timewaster: GrowBox

10:00AM Owen Good | Been a while since we’ve done these. Here’s GrowBox, courtesy of King.com. The object is to pick up all of the gold orbs, but consuming them makes your box grow, so the board must be navigated in a specific order. More »
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Weird Artistic Timewaster of the Day: Regret

3:30AM Maggie Greene | Jason Rohrer (creator Passage, Immortality, and others) is back with another game, this one with the theme of regret (bet you never would’ve guessed from the title). Rohrer and a journalist writing about the design process game up with the theme, after nixing such topics as “stop snitching”, “torture policy”, and “stop-and-frisk”. The game itself deals with feeding animals … sort of: More »
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Jay is Games Casual Game Competition #5 Is Up

8:00AM Maggie Greene | Jay is Games’ Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5 is now up with twenty one entries. I always like spending some time with the contest entries when they’re finally up; even though there’s always an overarching theme (this go around, it’s ‘upgrade’), the games are usually a pretty diverse and interesting bunch. More »
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