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Gartic: Online Guess the Drawing Game

Gartic is a web-based online drawing game which purpose is to score points by guessing what the other player has drawn. The game can be played on your browser without having to download anything or use a third party plugin.

To start playing, just head over to the Gartic website and choose a nickname for yourself. The next step is to choose a room to play in and click the Play now button. In each round a word is given to a player and that player must draw (as best they can) the assigned word. When the word is guessed, both players get points(being the players that guessed the drawing correctly and the player that is drawing at that time). After each guess the amount of points gets smaller, until they reach the minimum amount of 1(one).

If you’re looking for something that will let you practice your guessing power while killing some time online, Garctic might just be the right app for you. You also get to socialize a bit with other players while playing through the chat window.

Tags: drawing, Games, gartic, guessing game, online game

Roshambo: The Online Multiplayer Rock-Paper-Scissors Game.

Roshambo allows you challenge your online buddies to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The app requires no plugins and will not require you to download anything. Just type in your name and the name of your opponent and send him/her the link to your match. Have fun.

Tags: game, Multi Player, online game, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Roshambo

Help Find Cure for Diseases by Playing Foldit

Foldit is an online game that enables you to contribute data for medical scientific research by playing it. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of people’s puzzle-solving skills and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.

Since proteins are part of many diseases, they can also be part of the cure. Foldit will basically collect game data and use it to predict protein structures. The more knowledge they have about protein folding, the better they can design new proteins to combat the disease-related proteins and eventually find cure for diseases.

We’re collecting data to find out if humans’ pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever!

The game play is quite simple but can be very addictive and challenging. You will be given a 3D model of a protein and your job is to find the most stable structure to prevent Amino Acids from clashing. In order to complete a puzzle you must achieve or go beyond the target score. Check out the demo video below to see the game in action.

Foldit will give everyone a chance to contribute in discovering cure of HIV, Cancer and other diseases. If you want to try out the game, head over to their site, register and download the game client which supports both Windows and Mac OS-X operating systems. Who knows, you might be the key to finding cure for diseases which continually kills millions of people.

Tags: biology, foldit, game, mac os-x, medical research, online game, protein folding, puzzle solving, video games, Windows

Moshi Monsters Finally Launches

Moshi Monsters is a social networking site for kids that we introduced last year. The service is focused on kids’ learning through the use of social networking. You can start by adopting a monster and eventually taking care of your monster pet. You can feed, play and buy stuff for your monster. Get all the stuff available in the shops by using Moshi Monsters credits called Rox. You can earn your Rox by playing kid friendly puzzles and games. The monsters will develop different personalities depending on how it is treated by its owner.

The game features kid friendly interface that I’m sure most will enjoy. The daily puzzles are educational and the games can be played in easy, normal and hard modes which makes the game playable by any age group. This makes Moshi Monsters both entertaining and a great learning experience for kids.

Parents can also monitor their kids’ Moshi Monsters activities through email. Everytime someone invites your kid to become someone’s friend, an email will be sent to the parent for approval. Online safety for kids is important for the Moshi Monsters team so that parents can relax while their kids play with their monsters and discover new friends through online social networking. This is a cool and interesting site for kids and adults as well. So take a some time off and adopt a Moshi Monster.

Tags: kids game, Moshi Monsters, online game, Social Networking

Play a Strategy Game in your Browser with WeeWar

WeeWar is a free to play round based online multiplayer strategy browser game. As a player, you get to command an army. With that army, your goal is to capture all the bases in the map and obliterate your opponents. Capturing bases will generate income for a player to build new units. WeeWar is playable in the latest browsers and will not require a plugin in order to play.

To start playing, you can choose a map like the one in the image and set a desired speed for the game or you can join a previously created game if it is open. The player who created the game can invite up to five players depending on the map. A game can be on an invite only mode or open game where anyone is free to join. Once the game starts, the players take turns until the game ends. An end game is decided when all other remaining players are totally eradicated from the map or when players agree to a draw.

A single game can sometimes takes hours to finish depending on when you or your opponent takes a turn. An email notification can be sent to the player if his turn arrives. This is not a fast paced game and if you are expecting heavy graphics then this game is not for you. The graphics are very simplistic but the game is fun to play. So if you like taking long turns in a game or don’t mind waiting for a turn and like strategy games, maybe WeeWar is just the game that you are looking for.

Tags: browser based, Free, free to play, game, online game, strategy, video game, weewar