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YoYo Games Ltd is a UK Based Game Start-up founded by games industry veterans, Sandy Duncan and Michel Cassius. YoYo Games has grown to be the world's largest user generated game site with over 25,000 games. Employing a web 2.0 community model YoYo Games allows users to "Play, Make and Share games" for free.

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host.

Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. (View on YouTube) Edited by Keith Haskel / music by Tyler Walker For our latest mission, over 3,500 people downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously. The event began at sunset in two starting points by the Hudson River.

A simple, open source, online in-browser sound effect generator for games. Based on sfxr.

Especial: Juegos en línea

ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav, a fun site for kids. Jambav is devoted to creating a unique array of free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. This effort is backed by the US-based software powerhouse Zoho Corp Inc., a highly successful and profitable organization that has several successful brand names to its credit. ToonDoo was the happy result of brainstorming session that was aimed at creating a new way of expression for those who do not have the talent to draw. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it!

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

Descubre por qué los videojuegos, orientados pedagógicamente, pueden fomentar el desarrollo de aprendizajes efectivos. Por Javier Mondaca Wyman En el estudio de las llamadas "escuelas efectivas" se han estudiado diversas características de escuelas que promueven aprendizajes de calidad de forma equitativa en sus alumnos. Dentro de ellas, se consideran características o recursos afectivos que la escuela promueve en sus alumnos. Estos recursos ayudan a los alumnos a consolidar aprendizajes efectivos. Estas habilidades no se desarrollan únicamente en el la escuela, sino que pueden desarrollarse en un gran número de contextos. Creo yo que los videojuegos son una buena plataforma para desarrollarlas. A continuación intentaré explicar el porqué.