Start Your Week With an Addictive Flash Game

September 3rd, 2007, 1 Comment »

Because nothing says “I’m committed to this company” like massacring virtual men made of jelly. Logitech recently launched a new, entertaining viral game called Jelly Battle. You have to play three quick levels of single-player mode before you can go head-to-head with three other humans online.

The trick to these games, I think, is to achieve a level of complexity that’s not simplistic, but not overly baroque either. It should be just complex enough to hint at further achievement.

Logitech’s done a nice job of not overly-branding the experience. It took me quite a while to notice that, in fact, they were promoting cordless devices among the jelly carnage.

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Bye Bye, Productivity

March 23rd, 2007, 8 Comments »

Jeremy Zawodny just threw a monkey wrench into hundreds of projects across the IT industry:

The lack of posting here in the second half of this week (especially to my linkblog) has been a direct result of attempting to beat this highly addictive game.

Whatever you do, please DO NOT click the link and start playing that game. You may find yourself in the very same time warp that I did…

You have been warned.

He was so right. Proceed at your own risk. I’m writing this post while listening to my trusty pellet towers mow down all the bad nasty creeps.

Silly me, I was happy with a score of about 1500 (thanks, Waxy):

UPDATE: Here’s an updated version of the web crack.

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