First up, we have Velociraptor Safari. You’ll need to download a browser plugin, but the installation is painless and the game is totally worth it. The premiss is this: you are a raptor who drives a jeep. You hit other raptors with your jeep or snag them with a spiked ball on a chain which trails from said jeep. You get points for everything so go ahead crash, flip… do anything you want. It’s a hoot.

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari (Preinstall) from Matthew Wegner on Vimeo.

Next is Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. I think the game author is best left to describe this one.

The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the “B-Ballnacht”. Thousands upon thousands of the world’s greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide.

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Flash forward 12 years to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York, 2053. A Chaos Dunk rocks the island of Manhattan, killing 15 million. When the finger is put on the aging Charles Barkley, he must evade the capture of the B-Ball Removal Department, led by former friend and baller Michael Jordan, and disappear into the dangerous underground of the post-cyberpocalypse to clear his name and find out the mysterious truth behind the Chaos Dunk.

What’s amazing about this game it’s unwavering dedication to camp. There is nothing about it that isn’t ridiculous, but it’s so lovingly crafted it can only be described as a perfect storm of retro gaming goodness. Check out the trailer, but it takes about 30 or 40 seconds to get going.

Via The 1up Show

Cabel Sasser, designer at the world’s best software company, Panic, gives a great talk at the C4[1] Mac developer conference. He gives some insight into the origin and the evolution of Panic and speaks at length about the design process behind my favourite dev environment, Coda.