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Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up - Today's Time Waster
by Grant Robertson Feb 6th 2007 at 2:30PM
You can burn through whole minutes of your work-day while rearranging the Bard into completely unintelligible chunks of rhyme. SSS-U is potentially somewhat useful as an educational tool, since it does report the Sonnet and line number for each line you choose, but we won't let this gem's tiny chance of teaching us something ruin an otherwise incredible waste of time.
The next logical web mashup should be obvious; The Master Shake-speare sonnet Shake-Up, which would allow you to concoct joint ventures between The Bard and the ATHF.
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 ...
