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Terminator Salvation International: Instructions Archives. Weekend project: Build your own online game. There are a lot of great ways to spend a weekend, from catching up on sleep to jetting off for a short getaway.

Weekend project: Build your own online game

But for a game enthusiast sitting at home bored, without a to-do list or good spring weather, what better way to spend a weekend than to create your own online game? You can build a platform title, or you can develop a puzzle game to perplex gamers. Unless you're a coding genius, creating your own game requires some help. That's why I've put together a grouping of apps that help you build your own online game. From the simple to the complex, you'll find a bunch of useful tools in this roundup. Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time. Over the past few days, perhaps you’ve seen a few tweets pop up in your stream from people you follow that end with the “spymaster” hashtag.

Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time

If not, it’s likely you will soon. Spymaster is a new social game based around Twitter in which you do spy-like things such as buy things on the black market, assassinations and put money in Swiss bank accounts. For doing all of these various tasks, you get in-game fake money, and/or points to level-up to become a better spymaster. But if you try to do too much, too often, it will wear on your body and you will lose energy points. 60+ Free Classic Tabletop Games for the iPhone. The iPhone and iPod Touch have a variety of applications for gamers, ranging from music-based games to role playing games.

60+ Free Classic Tabletop Games for the iPhone

But what if you just want to play some chess or classic tic-tac-toe? The iPhone has that covered, too. There's no need to lug around a chess set as long as there's an iPhone in your pocket. Whether you love checkers, tic-tac-toe, or even rock-paper-scissors, there are a ton of free applications you can download for hours of classic tabletop entertainment.