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Yes, I second Concord.org, especially as the put what they develop under free license (the LGPL):
    http://www.concord.org/

Not free (except to demo):
    http://www.explorelearning.com/

Other random:
    http://www.miniclip.com/games/chasm/en/
    http://www.missiontolearn.com/2008/03/more-than-50-web-widgets-for-your-learning-mix/
    http://simulation.northwestern.edu/

Look for physics simulators; example:
    http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/

There is a lot of exploration people can do with Google Maps and Google Earth.

We've collected lots of links from homeschooling; I should put them up somewhere.

Stuff by me with links about education in general:
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/browse_thread/thread/e59c368c3734a926
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/006005.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October/005379.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005584.html

why wouldnt someone just embed a higher quality video into their site instead of rendering 3d inside of the browser?

Sheesh people, it's not like we're speculating about something totally new here. There are lots of popular 3d web apps already (such as this game, which should make the point of "why render in the browser" obvious). This is just a new language for doing it.

http://tremulous.net/files/

Tremulous is a very unique FPS. Two sides: Humans and wall-climbing aliens. Check it out.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Wesnoth is a hexagonal turn-based-strategy. I find it quite fun, though at times the random number generator can be annoying. (Don't ask...)

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

If you've got any relatively new Windows games, check out PlayOnLinux. It manages multiple versions of Wine, and the installation of games. I've got it on an Ubuntu box, and it works great for stuff like Diablo II - old classics. ;) Apparently it also works quite well for a bunch of newer games - the list of supported ones is about 200 long.

And if you're looking for flash based games, there's two sites that are absolutely the best:
http://www.miniclip.com/
http://www.armorgames.com/

Honourable mention - Penumbra. (The survival horror series, with native linux versions. Around $10 each, but right now they seem to be bundling all three.)

This game says Motherload.

But Dictionary.com agrees with you.

can you easily manipulate spatial data in your head?
BLOXORS! so far on 5 people have completed the game up to level 35, challenging and fun.

http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/

full screen
http://img2.pconline.com.cn/pconline/0708/28/1091170_28turningsqure.swf

You want flash games? YOU GOT 'EM!
I have probably a gig of flash games I've downloaded to my computer. A lot of it is crap, actually. But there are several that are quite addictive and I thought I would share.

Most of these you can grab and save locally. Since I had most of these saved, I just Googled for the game names and linked the first or second or third result that came up. Most I checked to make sure the site would load without popups and teh game was still there and would load. I included the name in case the result doesn't work as it should (such as a site getting slashdotted! - I could have used coral cache [.nyud.net] on these, but I was unsure if it'd work with the flash files as well. So, if one doesn't work, you can always Google the name. :p

Also, if you saved the flash files locally, you can also download a standalone flash player, courtesy of Adobe, so that you can play the games on your home PC as well. Standalone debug versions are apparently available for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Below is a list of some games I thought I'd share with y'all. Some have probably been mentioned (n, dice wars), but those that were in the main article (portal flash version) I've skipped.

Unreal - http://www.armorgames.com/games/unrealflash_popup.html

Unreal 2007 (Newer version of above) - http://www.addictinggames.com/unrealflash2007.html

Tactics Core (isometric turn-based rpg fighter) - http://www.ugoplayer.com//games/tacticscore.html

Tactics 100 (Newer version of above) - http://www.gamebrew.com/games/blogs/tactics100/play.php

The Batman: Cobblepot Captor (side scroller) - http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/batman.html

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (side scroller) - http://www.arcadestreet.com/play-batman-mystery-of-the-batwoman.htm

Russian Affairs (side scroller) - http://russian-affairs.freeonlinegames.com/
Space Bounty (side scroller) - http://www.diggygames.com/play-4434-Space_Bounty.html
The Professionals II (side scroller) - http://www.flasharcade.com/shooting-games/the-professionals-ii-game.html

http://neave.com/games/ (which includes cool old school games like Space Invaders, Tetris, Asteroids, Snake, Frogger, Simon Says, Tic-tac-toe, and... Hexxagon ? )

Tetris (Kind of like Tetris Grand Master, from what I can tell) - http://www.gdward.plus.com/site/flash/tetris/

Bubble Shooter - http://absolutist.com/online/bubbles/

PacXon - http://www.addictinggames.com/pacxon.html

Deal or No Deal - http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal/game/flash.shtml

Plumber - http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1082.htm

Bunch - http://www.miniclip.com/games/bunch/en/

Tanks - http://www.2dplay.com/tanks/tanks-play.htm

n game - http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html

Dice Wars (Risk) - http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

I just moved to a new city - from Stockholm, Sweden to Phoenix, Arizona, so Ive had a lot of free time on my hands and much of that has gone to looking for good, free games. I havent limited this to only flash, obviously. Beggars cant be choosers.
But here are some I found that were very addicting!

(flash)
Motherload
http://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/

A game where youre a miner on a mars colony. Deeper you go, the more dangerous, but the more valuable the gems. Upgrades and planning ahead are really important. Actually takes the better part of the day to beat, and it incorporates a save function.

(flash)
Aqua Energizer
http://www.miniclip.com/games/aqua-energizer/en/

Really addicting puzzle/maze game.

I dont like straying from the subject, but usually we are limited to buggy beta-type games when the pricetag is $0.
It may be interesting for a lot of people to know that Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto (1) to the public, free of charge
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (download link). The good people at Virgin Interactive have also released Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to the public, also free of charge: http://megagames.com/news/html/freegames/commandandconquertiberiandawn.shtml (download link).

These are some great classic titles that are all worth being played again!

I just moved to a new city - from Stockholm, Sweden to Phoenix, Arizona, so Ive had a lot of free time on my hands and much of that has gone to looking for good, free games. I havent limited this to only flash, obviously. Beggars cant be choosers.
But here are some I found that were very addicting!

(flash)
Motherload
http://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/

A game where youre a miner on a mars colony. Deeper you go, the more dangerous, but the more valuable the gems. Upgrades and planning ahead are really important. Actually takes the better part of the day to beat, and it incorporates a save function.

(flash)
Aqua Energizer
http://www.miniclip.com/games/aqua-energizer/en/

Really addicting puzzle/maze game.

I dont like straying from the subject, but usually we are limited to buggy beta-type games when the pricetag is $0.
It may be interesting for a lot of people to know that Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto (1) to the public, free of charge
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (download link). The good people at Virgin Interactive have also released Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to the public, also free of charge: http://megagames.com/news/html/freegames/commandandconquertiberiandawn.shtml (download link).

These are some great classic titles that are all worth being played again!

Have 50% of the new games run natively on Linux, and Windows market share in homes will decrease by 50% in years.

I wonder why there are so few comments? Some of the puzzles in this game really blow my mind, I wonder why the Slashdot community ignores it so? I agree there's an issue that on the Internet, in any game, there's always one or a few guys who seem to have all the time in the world to devote to that one thing, and you know you'll never catch up with them, because you have a real life to live. E.g. if you visit any of the games on miniclip.com they all have highscores that are in the stratosphere.

The solace for me is that it's fun to try to solve these types puzzles with other people. It's a social experience. I won't get the reward, but I'll have some unique memories (I sure remember Beast).

Also, every article on Slashdot that links to something commercial is a "slashvertisement." I don't know why those comments get modded +5.

We don't compete with the $10M projects.

I think that we do compete with the $10M projects, and very directly so. After all, we produce "entertainment," so we're already in competition with movies, restaurants, and fun gadgets for consumers' money. The potential customer doesn't separate indie games out from the AAA titles as much as we'd like. Their money is (presumably) finite, so their purchase of one game means that they're less likely to purchase another, regardless of who created it.

We're not after the same markets to begin with - there's a clear separation between hardcore and casual gamers.

Ah, but this further increases the competition, as a casual indie game is up against both the higher-profile casuals (e.g., the Lumineses and Tetrises) and the myriad free games available on Newgrounds and Miniclip.

I believe that small studios will do better once we get ourselves into the mindset that we're squarely in competition with larger ones. Which is fine, because while we may not all be able to compete at the cutting-edge on photorealism, there's precedence for our creating good-looking games that excel in other areas (Uplink, GalCiv).
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www.dejobaan.com - Competing with companies that spend more money on cocktail parties than we do in an entire year.

http://www.miniclip.com/dancingbush.htm

What do you have to search for? Keys related to any program will generally be stored in one of two places:

HKLM\Software\(publisher)\(program name)
or
HKCU\Software\(publisher)\(program name)

So my personal high scores for Hamsterball are stored in

HKCU\Software\Raptisoft\Hamsterball

Sometimes there are settings in both, one set is for LOCAL MACHINE (global) settings, the other is for CURRENT USER (custom) settings. If you have to search somewhere else to find your settings, the programmer screwed it up to start with, and having a flat file instead of the registry isn't going to fix that.

Docstrings I can't help you with once something's in the registry, but if you have a .REG file that you want to document, put comments in by starting a line with ; and you can grep them back out when you need 'em.

someone was hosting a Dancing Bush site.
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Billwashere

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