One of my favorite bands of all time, The Mountain Goats has written a short but sweet song about the original Mario game, but from the perspective of Toad. Really a great song, and the video below is worth a watch.
So, I wrote a game! It's something I've been wanting to do and had the idea for a while now. The premise of the game is that a random word is selected, a search of Flickr.com is performed with that word and you see the images from that search. Now you have 30 seconds to guess what that word is!
The game is entirely written in javascript/jQuery and is completely themable with jQuery UI. I wrote the majority of it in one afternoon, and made some updates the following week based on some great feedback from friends on Twitter and just some better usability ideas I had.
Take a shot at it and let me know what you think. I hope to find the time soon to make even more improvements to the game.
Play Guessr!
Want to see one of the hardest games ever created? Someone modified the levels of Super Mario World to be incredibly hard, and they call it “Kaizo Mario”. Here’s level one being played
Now if you want to see something even crazier, how about 134 people playing that level at the same time? That’s right, 134 different plays of this level all superimposed on top of each other.
For a better explanation of that video, and what it has to do with quantum physics, you’d be better off reading the creators homepage: http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=20