Must Play

Addictive As What You Grow (lol)
Hemp Tycoon is additive, simple and fun. The game's goal is to grow hemp. Growing in the backyard is the most fun. You select seeds with yields and can put more of your backyard under the plow as you earn cash.

My strategy was to keep turning the cheap seeds fast, the more expensive seeds take longer to grow, and put as much of the backyard into production as possible as fast as possible. There is a soft reggae track that adds to the addiction.

All Gaming Basics Here
You can see all the elements of graet games here including;
* Simple game construct (grow hemp).

* Simple game rules (you need money to buy seeds, seeds make hemp).

* Each game moment is reinforcing and rewarding.

Understand Hemp Tycoon's basic construct and you understand everything you need to know about games. Reinforcement leads to more reinforcement and more game play. Brilliant.

Mindless fun, but economics and reminded me of a piece I wrote about learning capitalism from my favorite dope dealer:
http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2008/05/julio-and-school-yard.html

Battle Cats Rule The World
This game sounds just strange enough to be fun. From a Japanese game developer and capable of creating and unlocking strange characters cats are truly taking over the world.

The other day I was thinking, as I scooped my Bengal's poop, that if an alien observed what I was working so hard on they would think I was the slave and my cat Lucian is in charge. And they would be RIGHT (lol).