This is the good stuff.
posted by Literaryhero at 4:04 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]

745 btw.
posted by Literaryhero at 4:04 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]

Is it deterministic? Is the best gameplay always the same gameplay? It feels like that. But I guess the original was, too.
posted by seanmpuckett at 4:49 AM on January 3

Seampuckett I have no idea how it was made / programmed but the author has a GameDev blog and also a range of other small browser games
posted by Faintdreams at 4:57 AM on January 3

I'm just happy to see that there's still a niche for games that could have been implemented in Apple II Integer BASIC.
posted by flabdablet at 5:09 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]

The Pac-Man I never knew I wanted!
posted by chavenet at 5:57 AM on January 3

Ha cute.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:04 AM on January 3

1910 is my best. Fun, but a little buggy in that the ghost doesn't always become edible after you eat the powerup.
posted by dobbs at 6:15 AM on January 3

Oh HECK YEAH! Love ABA Games/ Kenta Cho!
He's got tons of great little experimental games like this, GROWTH is another good one. Also ABA is imo the king of modern/retro/indie 2D shooters. Tumiki Fighters is a bit like "what if Katamari Damacy was a toy-plane shooter?" rRootage has lots of cool modes, including one like Ikaruga. But Gunroar is a real star, one I keep coming back to for it's sleek look, silky controls, and all-around fun. Many of his games are now part of the apt repositories, so you can install them via e.g. sudo apt install gunroar .

I love that he makes these excellent games as a labor of love and gives them away for free. He also defined the BulletML language to define the barrages of bullets in many of his games, and many others now too :)
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:35 AM on January 3 [3 favorites]

Dang, I just hit 3204. It is not deterministic.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:40 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I don't think any of these games are deterministic, most of his game credit the Mersenne Twister for random number generation.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:44 AM on January 3

I just got caught in a run-down, like a little leaguer. one dot left, red just not letting me get there
posted by chavenet at 6:56 AM on January 3

Ah, I linked to this from our gaming blog Set Side B 10 months ago! It's great!

(BTW, an indication of how far Google has decayed, I literally did a search for "set side b paku paku" just now, and of course out site didn't turn up at all. Sigh.)
posted by JHarris at 8:30 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]

I love it when stupid ideas turn out to be amazing ideas.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:50 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]

I literally did a search for "set side b paku paku" just now, and of course out site didn't turn up at all

It's the first result I see for that search on DuckDuckGo, for what that's worth.

DDG has been my default search engine for a year now, and it continues to improve. Google is very much plan B for me now; it tends to do a little better than DDG at digging out my very old comments on site:metafilter.com but that's about it.
posted by flabdablet at 8:54 AM on January 3 [2 favorites]

5667!
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:14 AM on January 3 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: You're Welcome and / or I'm sorry
posted by treepour at 11:27 AM on January 3 [4 favorites]

"Do you know Pac-Man?" "I know of him."
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 11:47 AM on January 4 [1 favorite]

4824 - love it.
posted by progosk at 3:05 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

3566.
posted by zenon at 8:54 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]

6643!
posted by progosk at 2:02 PM on January 5 [1 favorite]