Green New Deal Simulator

by Molleindustria and Jesse Stiles.

A short and accessible digital boardgame about guiding the USA to zero emissions by the year 2050. By Molleindustria, who’s been doing this sort of thing for a long time and is really great at it.

Videogames are amazing at helping you understand how a complicated system works. Nothing beats the act of just playing with the pieces yourself, and seeing how it all fits together! The path to a zero emissions future is gonna require a lot of juggling – and, uh, not getting sidetracked by the Nuclear Fusion pipedream, maybe.

[Play online (itch.io)]
(Also available for free on steam and mobile)

Japanese Money Simulator

by Wendal.

An education puzzle game about paying for stuff with coins, so that you end up with as few coins as possible remaining in your pocket. “Many tourists in Japan gather a truly absurd amount of coins. Last year 17 tourists drowned in Tokyo bay, unable to swim, burdened with excess coinage”, or so the game claims!

It’s weird (and surprisingly fun) to have to take a step back and manually think through this process that we do all the time without really thinking about it.

[Play online (itch.io)]

Joey Wamone’s Normal Bedtime Routine That Is Absolutely Not A Recurring Tooth Decay Nightmare

by Joey Wamone.

Collect all the teeth to win! Created for DOMINO CLUB’s Dream Gallery Jam.

I love this – it’s a joke game in the vein of I Wanna Be The Guy or Kaizo Mario World, but in miniature, and focused on one particular mechanic.

[Play online (itch.io)]
(download version recommended)

MyHouse.wad

by Veddge and Thomas.

This is a custom level for Doom 2! Just a normal map of someone’s house, it seems?

… ok, ok, there’s more here than first appears. Part of what makes this cool is that it’s a “doom” thing, but don’t worry, you don’t need to be a true doom murderhead to appreciate it.

I recommend reading Eevee’s “gradually-unfolding list of tips” once you’ve played through the level!

[Download doom .pk3 file]

How to play a doom level in 2023:

  • First, just grab the level from the link above.
  • Next, download the latest version of GZDoom.
  • You ideally need a doom .WAD file from the commercial version of Doom 2 at this point – look for a DOOM2.WAD file in any version of Doom 2 and copy it into the GZDoom folder. (there are other options here if you don’t have Doom 2, but you’ll have to figure those out on your own.)
  • Drag the myhouse.pk3 file on to gzdoom.exe, and the level will start: