Thursday, August 9, 2007

90 Plus AJAX Games, Social Games, and Mashups

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    Ajax/Javascript

    Statetris- A tetris-like game in which the goal is to piece together American states instead of shapes.

    WeBoggle- An addictive, customizable, entirely html and javascript/ajax based, multi-player scrabble like game. The goal is to assemble words from a board in a time limit; high score lists are mapped out against other players.

    Chihuahua- Another word game where you assemble as many words as you can with the letters given, however you must always make use of the middle, highlighted, letter.

    Linez - A puzzle game in which your goal is to score as high as possible by lining up five or more pieces on the 9×9 board.

    Just Letters- A “fridge” with magnetic letters; every player moves them around simultaneously attempting to form words.

    MorfikChess- A highly sophisticated chess game built for your browser entirely in javascript and ajax.

    MorfikPong- Built like MorfikChess, but for an implementation of the classic arcade game, Pong.

    MineSweeper- Another one built by MorikLabs, this time, for another classic game, MineSweeper.

    SinkMyShip- An ajax-based, real time strategy multi-player implementation of Battleship.

    Sudoku Slam- An ajaxy implementation of traditional Sudoku puzzles for the web, much more fun than a pen and paper.

    Sudoku Solver- A “game” which helps you solve those Sudoku puzzles you just can’t get, enter the numbers you know and it’ll solve it for you.

    The Daily Headhunt- Utilizing ajax and javascript for a game in which you decipher real world headlines by means of a word-search process.

    64Pola - Chess- An ajax-based chess game.

    Bunny Hunt IV- An ajax-based game in which you destroy bunnies.

    64squares- Customizable, ajax-based chess game.

    Ajax Chess- A lightweight, ajax-based, Chinese Chess game.

    Ajax Tetris- Another ajax-based game, this time, Tetris.

    Grand Strategy- Risk-clone built entirely on ajax.

    Social Gaming

    Weewar- A round based, multi-player strategy game where up to 6 players control their “pixel armies” on a map-board, much like the classic strategy board game Risk.

    Kdice Another Risk-like online strategy game in which your goal is to eventually be in command of all the territories, slightly more “realistic” than Weewar.

    Connect 4 - A multi-player, online version of the classic board game.

    Geosense-A multi-player geography quiz.

    TripleJack Poker- A free, multi-player poker game with no gambling involved.

    Pictaps- A slightly odd game where you paint a character in a multiplayer virtual world; it’s slightly addictive, but insanely odd.

    Vox Imperium- A multi-player strategy game based on conquest, control and diplomacy.

    Wabble- A multi-player Scrabble clone for your browser, works quite well.

    Grand Strategy- One more Risk-based strategy game, more true to the game’s roots.

    Trendio - A stock-market “game” where you predict and trade words in the news.

    TheBroth- An art-creation game, but with a twist, you’re placed in a room with 1000 tiles which can be moved simultaneously by all players; the result is sometimes amazing artwork.

    Solitaire Craving- A free solitaire challenge everyday. When a registered member completes a challenge, they then rate its difficulty which is averaged in order to provide an accurate description for all players.

    Alexadex- Trade website “shares” in real time, aiming to make as much money as possible, just like the real stock market.

    The Tech Buzz Game- Another game based on some sort of virtual stock market, this one, by Yahoo, utilizes the trade of popular technological buzzwords as “shares”.

    Flower Maker- Using petal styles, colors, and ajax, you can assemble flowers. These can then be saved and added to the community garden, or even emailed to whoever you’d like.

    Tradeover- A virtual stock market game in which players trade real world stocks and currencies given an initial amount of 1 million USD.

    Might & Magic- A strategy MMORPG much like World of Warcraft.

    Babble- An interactive scrabble-like game.

    Alexadex- Buy and sell shares in websites, instead of companies.

    Arcaplay- An interactive social gaming community.

    Blocksavvy- A more mature version of the popular children’s site, Habbo.

    Blufr - General knowledge multiplayer trivia.

    Faketown- Create, manage, and trade virtual assets in a pixelated environment.

    Gamerankings- Vote for as well as rank your favorite games on all platforms.

    Gmworldwar - Yet another Risk-like multiplayer maps mashup.

    Guildcafe - Free guild-hosting for MMORPG, FPS, and RTS clans and guilds.

    Gunzonline - Shoot, stab, run and jump in the world’s biggest shooting-based MMORPG.

    Inkling - Using social trends as shares in an environment similar to the stock market, useful for trendy people and market researchers alike.

    Ispott - The world’s largest social, mobile, scavenger hunt.

    Itsdex - Web popularity game; trade and rank popular websites, predict their rise and fall.

    Kdice - Multi-player strategy mashup game using Google’s web tool-kit.

    Megabuzz - Participate in web 2.0 buzz games and win prizes.

    Millionsofgames - Review, rate and share various online games.

    Mobspray - Create and share graffiti in virtual places through mobile2RFID.

    Multitap - Share, rate, discuss and categorize screenshots.

    Pickspal- Compete with friends on fantasy sports bets.

    Robinfood- Subscribe to the gameshow, donate; if you win, you have the chance to give 1 million dollars to charity.

    Rupture- Publish your WoW profile and connect to other gamers. A “social network for gamers”.

    Sf0 - A collaborative production game where you build characters by completing various tasks for the community.

    Sploder- Create your own flash games and share them on the web, play others’ games as well.

    Spore- A game based on user generated gameplay and characters.

    Synthravels- Virtual travel agency to the gaming world.

    Theburgg- Draw a scene from a movie and have the community guess which one.

    Trivionomy- Create, edit and play your own trivia games, as well those from others.

    Votigo- Create and share your own video or photo contest.

    Weblo- Make money and build assets in a virtual world.

    Mashups

    Flickr Mashups

    PhotoMunchrs- A grid of several flickr photos is given with a corresponding word; the goal is to “munch” and click on 7 photos tagged with that word.

    Fillustrator- Type a short story and this tool will illustrate it with appropriately tagged photos for each word from Flickr.

    Flicktionary- The goal is to guess the tag or title of a photo; once you’ve guessed close, it will give you more hints with additional photos.

    Fastr- Loads a group of ten flickr images all sharing one common tag; you have to guess what that is. The faster you guess, the more points you get.

    Flagrantdisregardcardgame - Create customizable trading cards from your flickr photos.

    Phrasr - A flickr mashup in which you add photos to phrases.

    Google Mashups

    Real World Racer- This “real world racing game” is a google maps mashup where you simply race opponents through checkpoints upon the satellite imagery of a real location. There’s even a choice of tracks, from Boston to Paris.

    Wings- Yet another Google maps mashup where you fly as an eagle, virtually anywhere in the world, climbing, diving, and catching thermals to stay aloft.

    Googles- Again, using google maps, Goggles is a flight simulator in which you can fly freely in virtual skies.

    Google Image Labeler- Help Google categorize its images and have fun in the process. You’re paired with with someone else and shown images to label: guess the same labels as your partner to score.

    Brewster Jennings Protects- You’re an undercover CIA agent trying to save America. The game makes good use of Google Maps while navigating you through various clues on your journey.

    Googlefight - A “fighting” game in which the winner is the word entered with the most search results on Google.

    Guess-the-google - The game presents you with a bunch of images (all Google image search results for a specific term) - you have to guess the search term in a limited amount of time.

    Maps-quiz - Given a satellite image sourced from Google maps, guess where in the world it is.

    Montage-a-google - A google images mashup, tag-based photo montage.

    GMRisk-Another Risk-based game, this one’s a Google mashup.

    Other Mashups

    Microsoft Live Derby- A flash-based, but nevertheless, live-search maps “mashup” game. It’s a Pacman type game in which you pick up tokens, avoiding other cars, whilst driving upon the map’s satellite imagery.

    TagMan- Combining classic hangman with web 2.0 tags from technorati, squidoo, del.icio.us, and flickr for quite a fun experience.

    Dynamiskt Memory Spel- Just enter a term, and the game will search through the yahoo images database and present you with 15 compatible images that are used in a simple memory game.

    Averageshoveler- A mashup combining play with RSS feeds.

    Memory - A Yahoo images memory game mashup.

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