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Rollyo: Roll your own search engine
by Jordan Running Sep 28th 2005 at 5:00PM
Rollyo takes search in an interesting new direction: Instead of one big search engine that searches the whole web, Rollyo lets you create your own micro-search engines that only search sites relevant to a particular topic. It also adds a social element whereby you can add others' search engines to your own collection. That's pretty clever.Via SimpleBits.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
