Beat the Boot is a simple collection of games, offered as a browser extension for Google Chrome. There are various games that test your basic quickness with the keyboard. For example, there is a game in which you have to drop eye-drops into a moving eye by pressing the space bar when you are in position. Another game presents different shapes and asks you to pick the moustache in them. All games are timed and your scores can be shared online. Good performances are awarded badges by the game.

Features:

• A user-friendly browser tool.
• Compatible with Google Chrome.
• Offers various games to test your basic keyboard speed.
• Lets you share scores online.

Check out Beat the Boot @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aidgmjkfmbhldhnhkopojimkhhhcpenl (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

You may use BT Controller to make your Android phone/tablet act like a game pad controller to play a game on the emulator present on the Android OS. However, you must install BT Controller on both devices in order for the app to work. One is the host device, and the other one is the controller.

Once installed, just open up the BT Controller on your Android device, allow Bluetooth access on both devices, find and connect to the second Android device in the region (also having Bluetooth access). Once done, just enable the BT Controller and set the BT controller as active.

The application has been tested with some emulators, including DroidEmuLite, Mame4Droid, FPse and many more.

The free application is ad supported, but if you want an ad-free version, you can purchase it for $1.02.

Features

• Use your Android phone/tablet as a gamepad controller.
• Free add-on – no need to buy pricy third-party equipment.
• Many emulators and games tested working on BT Controller.
• Paid (ad-free) version available.

Check out BT Controller @ https://market.android.com/details?id=droidbean.btcontroller (via AddictiveTips)

The games cover main prize categories including physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. Most of the games have embedded descriptions that give an overview / understanding of the concept. Each game can be rated, commented on or shared with others easily. The games are all web based and don’t require and any download or plugin installation.

Features:

• Learn about Nobel prize topics through educational games.
• Over 30 games in 5 different categories.
• No registration required.

Visit NobelPrizeGames @ http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/all_productions.html [Via FreeTech4Teachers]

Once you like what you have created, you can export it as a WAV file and insert in any game. You can also save your sound effects as an SFX file and then load them again to resume editing. You can also use the mixer to layer around parameters in order to create a unique sound effect. The tool is a bit complex to use, but has amazing functionality once you get a hold of it.

Features:

• Generate game sound effects.
• Use tons of preset effects or create your own.
• Over a dozen parameters to customize sound.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: AudioExpert and as3sfxr.

Visit Bfxr @ www.bfxr.net

My American Farm is a web service that provides ‘funducational’ games to help children learn about agriculture and food processing. Thirteen different games are featured on the site. These games correspond to various aspects of agriculture: mathematical, scientific, and social. Children can play these games and learn about the concepts addressed in them while having fun.

Teachers can better understand the site and the games by accessing the list of standards published on the site. Additional resources to further help teachers are also offered.

Also offered by the site are fun family activities in the form of activity sheets, take-home activities, and book suggestions.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps teach students about agriculture.
• Teaches concepts through games.
• Games address math, science, and social science aspects of agriculture.

Check out My American Farm @ http://www.myamericanfarm.org (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Anatomy Arcade is an online anatomy website which contains free flash games to help students make their anatomy study easy. The website has a massive library of games categorized by body systems and type of body part. For example, if you are studying about the nervous system or skeletal system, you may want to check out some games like Whack-A-Bone in which you can build up a scan and whack different skeleton parts and when that’s done, just scan the skeleton.  There are many games like these which can make learning boring anatomy topics interesting.

The site is ad supported and free for students and teachers to use in classrooms or computer labs. But if you want advertisement-free browsing, you can purchase a license based on the number of computers and starts from $14.95 for single use.

Features

• Its free.
• Learn anatomy by playing games.
• Games categorized by type and body system.
• Offer paid licenses to make the site ad free.

Check out AnatomyArcade @ http://www.anatomyarcade.com (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

All you have to do is visit the site with Google Chrome and solve the puzzles thrown your way. For each puzzle you can view hints if you get stuck. Levels increase in difficulty and challenge. Overall the game provides you with a lot of fun.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• A puzzle game by Google.
• Provides you with puzzles that keep you guessing.
• Offers hints for puzzles.
• Similar tools: TeamCrossword, Puzzlemaker, PictureDots, Let’s Make A Puzzle and OnlineWordSearch.
• Also read related articles: 7 Quick Tools To You Solve Crossword Puzzles Online and 10 Websites to Make and Print Word Search Puzzles.

Check out The Google Puzzle @ www.thegooglepuzzle.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Dice Simulator is a free to use web tool that lets you easily simulate dice rolls. All you have to select the number of dice from 1 to 6 and then click on the Roll link. Instantly, new numbers on the dice are shown. These numbers are added and their sum is instantly displayed as well.

Apart from this main feature, Dice Simulator also includes a history of dice and a list of popular games that use dice.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you simulate dice rolls.
• Supports up till 6 dice.
• Automatically calculates and displays the sum of individual dice numbers.
• Includes a history of dice and a list of popular games that use dice.

Check out DiceSimulator @ www.dicesimulator.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

The game is basically the highly popular Tetris with shapes made up of LinkedIn blocks and your contact’s pictures. You keep placing the shapes to complete horizontal lines to make them disappear. When the game is finished, you can share it with your LinkedIn contacts.

The app also integrates your contacts’ latest updates with the game and keeps you updated on them while you play.

Features:

• A user-friendly web tool.
• Tetris for LinkedIn users.
• Lets you share the game with LinkedIn contacts.
• Integrates your LinkedIn contacts’ latest updates.
• Also read related articles:
  3 Cool Tetris Spin-Off Online Games
  Quinn – Multiplayer Tetris Game On Your Mac

Check out DropIn @ www.dropin.linkedinlabs.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Stencyl is a desktop application for Windows, Linux, and Mac computers. The desktop lets you build a Flash game by creating the game’s atmosphere and dragging the relevant blocks that the game offers. In a way, you have the entire game studio in a virtual box – all you have to do is be creative with the game concept and design. No coding is required because all you have to do is snap blocks together. You can preview your created games to check if everything is how you want it to be. Finished games can be published on Stencyl’s site to be showcased to others.

Fro more info watch demo video:

Features:

• A user-friendly flash game builder.
• Lets you create Flash games.
• Does not require any coding knowledge.
• Lets you work by dragging blocks onto main canvas.
• Similar tool: Nonoba.
• Also read related article: Create Your Own Flash Games With Sploder.

Check out Stencyl @ www.stencyl.com (via ReadWriteWeb) (by MOin from ThumbPress)