Millions of Games

duncangough writes "With the recent rise in popularity of casual games and the seemingly established presence of community bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, Millionsofgames.com is one of the first websites to provide an amalgamation of these two themes. MOG is a social bookmarking service for flash, shockwave and java games although any type of game can be added, such a MMORPGs or downloadable games like Zuma and Bejewelled."

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And if you're just looking for games..

[duncangough]

Then keep an eye on my homepage:

Millionsofgame - suttree

I'll be posting plenty of games there and tagging them accordingly. Jewel Thief, for starters, is a great little game.

Re:And if you're just looking for games..

[Council]

Since millionsofgames appears to be slashdotted, I guess there's nothing to do but convert this thread into a NEW millionsofgames!

None of these fancy-schmancy social information tools are anything that we can't recreate with our own slashdot moderation system! In fact, with enough work, I believe we can build a full gaming engine out of comment threads.

I vote that we put the next red pixel at (14,220). If you disagree, moderate accordingly.

(Soldat is a lot of fun, though it is a download)

Pffft

[belg4mit]

I've been playing http://www.zillions-of-games.com/ for years now :-P

half of which

[jlebrech]

are tetris clones

Re:half of which

[FidelCatsro]

Which is a good ratio considering 90% of games in existence are Tetris clones

MAME

[Crixus]

I can't imagine how anyone could possibly think they need any more games than MAME can provide. :-)

Re:MAME

[ciroknight]

Mame is mostly full of arcade games and games for old gaming systems like nintendo and such.

Meanwhile, there is a while world of games outside of these; games like World of Warcraft and Counter Strike and all of those other trendy teen games.

So while Mame may be a great gaming system, it is far from all-inclusive, and there will always be a taste for a game that Mame can't provide.

Re:MAME

[Meagermanx]

I was looking through the MOG website, but I couldn't find the Counterstrike or WOW flash games.
Link?

Havent they always been there?

[MrArmyAnt]

Must be a slow news day, those have been around for a while.

Re:Havent they always been there?

[Mr. Underbridge]

Yes, but now it has a pretentious name like "Social bookmarking" to make it new and catchy.

Am I the only one...

[DogDude]

Am I the only one on the planet that does what he can to keep Java, Flash, and Shockwave OFF of his computer? The last thing I want is a big website telling me where I can actually *find* this crap-ola.

Re:Am I the only one...

[ciroknight]

Your logic is counter-intuitive. You don't want this crapola on your computer, and yet, you mind there is a list telling you where to find this crapola. You could just as easily use the list to BLOCK the crap from your machine instead of actually installing it, so why are you so upset?

Re:Am I the only one...

[smooth wombat]

Nope, you're not alone. I was going to post one of those 'I don't use Flash you insensitive clod!' threads but yours will do just fine.

People keep telling me that I'm missing a lot of good things by not using Flash but I don't find that my web experience is diminshed in any fashion. I can find the information I need without having to wait for a Flash ad to load or interfere with my searches.

Just so others out there don't bring the subject up, I don't care that FF has a FlashBlock extension. Not having Flash installed trumps the blocker.

For those that want to use Flash and Shockwave, more power to you. Hope you have fun. For me, I don't care to have that stuff on my system.

Millions of Games equals Millions of dollars...

[AnonymousYellowBelly]

...in lost productivity!!!

For ./ readers someone has to come up with:
1. The trolling game!! The son-of-a-gun with worst Karma wins a RIP: -1, Troll tombstone!
2. The 'find-the-duplicated-story' memory game!!
3. The First-post shootout!!

Productivity for the rest of the day...

[eldavojohn]

...has just plumetted.

My employer curses you, slashdot.

What?!!

[mangus_angus]

Since when was there more on the Internet then porn and ISO's?!! When did this happen?!!

Good idea

[ChrisF79]

This is really a pretty good idea for a site and I'd be especially interested to see what ads pop up down the road when they're getting a lot of visitors. I know my nieces and nephews will sit down at a computer and play some bizarre games that I've never seen or heard of before. I'd imagine once they get wind of this site, they'll be on there quite a bit. So who's the target market? Will they market to a younger teen crowd or will they market to adults (with purchasing power)? Either way, it semes like a pretty good way to get a site up with a lot of traffic.

Re:Good idea

[Alistar]

No, you're slightly confused, adults don't have the buying power, kids have the buying power, we just have the money.

Well, here's one reason

[Weaselmancer]

They're all arcade games. Yeah they're a blast, but I can't play them at work. The banging on the keyboard is a dead giveaway - only faster way to summon the boss is with a flare gun.

That's why the little dinky Java strategy and card games are good.

Re:Well, here's one reason

[advocate_one]

even better is the fact that most auditing software doesn't look for Java games... they ignore .jar files, which means you only have to get the game downloaded once... you don't have to keep going online to play them... and you can even email yourself games you've found while browsing at home.

Caution Popcap games spyware/security risk

[Anonymous Coward]

the summary links to popcap games autoinstall which are deemed a security threat by various anti-virus programs

if you value your PC (or your job) i would be careful about clicking links to sites which try to automatically install software which is deemed a security/privacy threat , very irresponsible of slashdot to even link to such sites

Re:Casual games?

[hcob$]

I guess it's kind of like casual sex. It's best on the desk of your office, during the day, when anyone can walk in on you.

Since we're on the subject...

[192939495969798999]

... of plugging random websites, here's my automated art portfolio website.

I am sad that /. would just post a plug for a website like this. Why not plug games.com or something? Just because it uses social bookmarking doesn't mean they should get a free "ad"... .... I wonder, was it really free, or did MOG pay for it?

How much?

[Sindri]

How much do I have to pay for advertising my site on slashdot like this?

A selection of casual games

[tenzig_112]

Carnyville : You wake at 3am to find a carnival has moved in next door. Find a way to get them to move on before your property value plummets! This point-and-click adventure blew up my bandwidth last month so please be gentle.

Swinger: a weird arcade style game where you swing from dot to dot- like Clockwerkz w/ physics.

Figure Five Frenzy: My favorite math geek game. Play others online to prove yourself nerdy.

Sudoku Shuffle: A sudoku puzzler where you race the clock and other players in real time.

more...

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut up. Symantec added it to their database intentionally, read:

"Description:

This is Trend Micro's detection for components of the legal adware called PopCap Loader from PopCap Games company. It is a Web plug-in that provides Web update features. "

But what platform?

[snookums]

Is is just me, or is this site sorely lacking a "filter by platform" control. There's no way of telling if a game is for mobile phone, Java, Flash, Windows-only or whatever before you click on it.

That detracts a lot from its usefulness for me.