Neen games

[imomus]

Last time I called a bunch of online digital amusements games, people quibbled over the terminology. So today I'm just going to call these web-based enigmas a complete waste of time. A splendid, magical and sometimes neen waste of time.

Vectorpark.

Hotel by H Hoogerbrugge.

Fly Guy.

Now some enigmatic "neen games" by Angelo Plessas (many named by neenstar Mai Ueda):

Tip Toe Behaviour.

Wrong Human.

Talking and Walking.

Everything You See Is In The Past.

Why Was He Sad?.

The End of Reason.

On and Off.

Four Peppers.

Fatal to the Flesh (drag your "nails" across the screen).

I Am Very, Very Sorry (useful for apologies).

It Will Never Be The Same (click and drag to "drive").

On A Horse.

We Will Attack.

Finally, a Flash piece used as "advertorial": Quest For the Rest, a piece made by Jakub Dvorsky to showcase music from the new Polyphonic Spree album.

Oh, and Screenhead's Flash recommendations.

Enjoy!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hurrah!! Never met one other person who knew about it before, but I agree, for a surreal hit unlike any other, Hoogerbrugge's "Hotel" is consistently amazing ... I still laugh when I click on the pill in episode one - or is it two- and Stan Laurel appears! (but the stripping clowns disturb me)

Nice one! have you visited tokyoplastic.com?

Rob.

[cutup.livejournal.com]

They're sort of meta-games, because you have to figure out how much control you have over the scenario and whether you can lose. They more closely approximate life than games like football or chess, which have a definite moment when you know you've "won."

[ddf.livejournal.com]

Weird. There was just a post about this on Metafilter.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

If I'd seen that, I would have included Samorost (http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod4/amanita/samorost/intro.html).

[klasensjo.livejournal.com]

Samorost is just absolutely fabulous. The Czechs sure know their "weird" animation. There's a sequel coming out soon.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Yes--Amanita Design does gorgeous work. This is my favorite: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod4/amanita/plantage/

[j7bnvaaaetrd.livejournal.com]

Devendra Banhart and I were in an artpunk band a few years ago. I guess we were not authentic enough?

[sakuraamplifier.livejournal.com]

"Tip Toe Behaviour" reminds me a lot of the falling/parachuting sequences in the old Raiders of the Lost Ark game for the Atari 2600. I think it's a combiation of the look of the "main character" and the feeling of feverishly trying to figure out how to keep the character from falling to his or her doom.

[(Anonymous)]

nick, i'm so happy that i introduced you to mai. it looks like you two are really getting along really well, despire your initial reservations. best of luck in the future.
r.,

[picturepack.livejournal.com]

what does it all neen? (http://www.neen.org/wb/w/artists/GRUBER/index.htm)

[silenceinspades.livejournal.com]

pictures from tonic last night if anyone is interested. good show all around.
here. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/72652195@N00/sets/596843/)

[(Anonymous)]

I caught the show too! It was fabulous. I wrote a bit about it on my site (http://symbology.unowhere.com/).

-d

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Nice review (http://symbology.unowhere.com/updates.html), mercy buckets!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

A well-done account. Wish I could have attended to dilute the graylings with some color, but a family obligation kept me from attending, sadly. (Funeral, et al.)

[cerulicante.livejournal.com]

I thought the "I am very, very sorry" page was people apologizing for various personal habits of a deviant and criminally sexual nature...I seem to be mistaken, though.

[frontporchmafia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I was actually going for any possible philosophies surrounding Micheal Jackson's impact on society when I ran into something you wrote at the end of March. It was brilliant, just had to remark. Who are you, and how'd you get so popular?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Here's my CV (http://www.imomus.com/index58.html) (not updated for a couple of years, though) and here's my Googlism (http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=Momus&type=1). I'm not popular at all!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Depends on the unit of measure. If measured in inches, you're not--but in centimeters, you're huge.

[frontporchmafia.livejournal.com]

Ah, well nice to meet you. Thanks for the piece on Micheal Jackson, I thought it was wonderful. Will you come bug us at my writing community on livejournal?

thebeatbox, if you are interested. I could use you!