games

It’s not a brain-training program.
It’s not a productivity tool.
It won’t make you more creative.

But it is immensely amusing and SO perfect for MindTweaks that I can’t believe it took me three years to discover it…

What is this astounding bit of excellence?

Psychonauts: a video game that involves both collecting and going inside other people’s brains! I ask you… Does it get any cooler than that??

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The Endless Forest wasn’t built as a mind-tweak; it just is one.

Designed as an interactive-screen saver, The Forest is a social game in which you play a deer, and interacting with other people playing deer. It sounds odd, and it is… but it is coolness beyond words, a reset button for the brain, and meditation, but ever so much more fun.

It’s damnably pretty, too. Check out the screen shots scattered through this post.

But it’s more than just the beauty of the system that makes The Endless Forest work as a MindTweak. The Forest is a game, but not in the sense of checkers, Monopoly, or Doom. Somehow, it takes you back to innocence, to childhood, to the simplicity of playing for the sheer joy of *playing* in the spirit of games you made up as children.

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