Originally created by the founders of Big Viking Games, YoWorld was sold to Zynga as YoVille in 2008, and later reacquired by Big Viking Games in 2014. YoWorld continues to thrive on the Facebook platform and is cited as one of the inspirations for the creation of FarmVille! The game allows Facebook members to create a virtual community with personalized characters and homes. With thousands of items to choose from, players can customize their homes, characters, and worlds to their heart’s content!
Foldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. It is part of an experimental research project developed by the University of Washington, Center for Game Science, in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry. The objective of Foldit is to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as possible, using tools provided in the game. The highest scoring solutions are analyzed by researchers, who determine whether or not there is a native structural configuration (native state) that can be applied to relevant proteins in the real world. Scientists can then use these solutions to target and eradicate diseases and create biological innovations.
Professor Brainium's Games is an educational video game released exclusively for the Nintendo DS in 2008. The purpose of the game is to inform the player by providing various puzzles, which they must complete to progress further. The game is similar to Brain Age and Big Brain Academy in its format and style of play.
Words UP offers brain challenging fun, super addictive gameplay, beautiful graphics and relaxing background sounds.
Just need to find the words that are hidden and by connecting letters to form words to complete a level. Also find as many extra words as you can find in every level which are hidden and don't present on the crossword board to collect bonus points.
An independent RPG made by Crestfallen Studios that was broken up into 6 chapters. It gained a small cult following among the RPG Maker community.
The story begins with a first glance at the "protagonist," Rhue. He has been searching all along "The Way" which is the name given to the world of this game by his childhood friend, whom was separated from him many years earlier. His travels take him to many settlements, he meets a very wide and varied cast of characters, and has adventures ranging from dungeon crawling, to stopping sieges, to tournaments and even some acting!
Meanwhile, a mysterious killer wreaks bloody havoc, and dark things stir in the Reaches. As the Way's mysteries are slowly revealed, Rhue follows the trail through mountain and forest and fire—and learns more about himself and the world he lives in than he's ever wanted to know...
Wits and Wagers is an Xbox Live Arcade game that brings the fun of Trivia games to your Xbox 360. The game boasts over 700 questions and you can either play with up to 4 people on your xbox, or go online for even more fun.
The object of the game is to use bouncing balls to clear all the notes on a stage. Each level has a maximum amount of ball gates you can open. Once you’re done with the game’s 50 levels, check out letsmakeagame.com to play user-created levels and make your own!
Neverwinter Nights 2 Gold combines Neverwinter Nights 2, the sequel to one of the best-selling and genre-defining role-playing games ever, and Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, which allows you to advance to epic levels (above 20) and choose from over 100 spells.
Brain Voyage features the famous German board game designer Dr. Reiner Knizia. He guides the player on a world tour through 13 different cities and explains how every puzzle works.
In Speed Racer, players take on the role of the characters from the film, getting behind the wheels of each character's signature vehicles to experience firsthand the film's high adrenaline, combative racing style. Perform tricks and pull off insane stunts through incredible, twisting stadium tracks, all while fighting against rival racers with incredible Car-Fu action.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world divided into districts, Mio and her childhood friend Shizuku hears strange rumors at school about "vampiric" murders. Who is the culprit, and how does it tie to that mysterious girl in white?
Crosswords DS supports up to four different players, and features two basic modes - Training and Main Game. The main game includes three classifications of puzzles - Crosswords, Word Searches, and Anagrams. The game uses similar handwriting mechanics to solve the puzzles as the popular Brain Age series of video games, as well as requiring the player to hold the Nintendo DS like a book. All three puzzles have varying difficulty levels, all of them featuring unlockable puzzles and difficulty levels.
Boom Blox is a action puzzle game developed in conjunction with Steven Spielberg. The objective of Boom Blox is to keep a structure made of blocks from being knocked down or to knock over a structure using the Wii Remote to throw, shoot or grab colorful character-based blocks through 300 levels through five worlds.
The game utilizes a realistic physics-based system. Depending on how a projectile is thrown and at what angle, the blocks will react accordingly, and collapse based on the real-time action.