Kongregate

Just saw this site mentioned in the Mercury News today. It's a gaming community site - with a twist in that it supports an apparently quick and easy upload process to upload your own (Flash) games.

And there's a metagame going on, for the site as a whole - you earn points, etc playing the games and uploading your own, and redeem them to get cards in Kongregate's own TCG, which is being designed by my former Backbone colleague, David Sirlin. Hmm..

I played Fancy Pants Adventures, which is really just a stick figure with pants that you guide around with the arrow keys, but has some really fun physics stuff going on, like Line Rider except you are actually controlling the little guy the whole time instead of setting up a course and then watching him go.

You apparently jump on enemies to attack them a la Mario, and there's a lot of fun loop the looping going on. And people were actually chatting in the chat room.

Also - "Kongregate shares between 25% and 50% of ad revenue with developers."