mySQLgame does away with fancy interfaces and hackneyed story lines and serves up it’s gameplay raw. As the developers put it “Are you tired of browser-based games that are thinly veiled interfaces for databases? Finally, there’s a game that just is a database!“.  If you love points and who doesn’t, then this applications games for you.  Mmmm points.  Who thought SQL database queries could be so much fun.

We’ve come a long a long way from the days of SEUCK. While looking into weird and possibly wonderful world of Flex, I came across PlayCrafter. It’s only in Alpha at the moment but it is already looking interesting. It’s a browser based game creator where you can make, play and share games all from the comfort of your favourite browser Firefox. The editor is pretty limited and the games people have made so far aren’t up to much but it’s early days. Worth a look if you have fond memories from the heady days of the 8-bit game creator.

The excellent Progress Quest by Eric Fredricksen was originally released in 2002 as an EverQuest parody. Although it does a pretty good job of parodying pretty much every other MMORPG as well. The first time in a while that the game (well zero player game) rather than the players has made me LOL. Roll your character then just sit back and enjoy. You don’t even need to faceroll.

(Progress Quest via Indie Games)