Punch.  Kick.  Eat mushrooms and fly to the moon.  Your character is a 2D rag doll and you move by dragging its limbs around.  Play through the main story, or try one of the more freeform game modes like Shaolin Soccer.

A Tale in the Desert is a massively multiplayer online game about players building a perfect society.  The staff of the game coordinated a controversial in-game event involving a highly sexist NPC, in order to evoke emotions in the players.

Chaim showed several of the gameplay prototypes he created at Maxis.  He gave examples of ways that big companies, making expensive games for risk-averse publishers, can integrate gameplay experimentation into their development process.

AntiGrav is a futuristic extreme-sports title for the PS2 in which the player's gestures and body movements control an onscreen hoverboard character.  They touched on some of the design challenges that led them to the choice of hoverboarding as a genre, and demonstrated the control set of the shipping game.

A semester-long project to create between 50 and 100 games.  Each week a new theme is chosen, like "Make Something with Gravity" or "Make Something with Sound".  The resulting games are posted at experimentalgameplay.com (uhhh, thanks guys).

Train teams of robots to fight with tactics of your choice (they learn the tactics via a neural-network-based genetic algorithm).  Pit them against other teams of robots, distributed with the game or trained by other players online.

Steve showed overviews of Super Mario 64 DS, Feel the Magic XY/XX, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005, and Elektroplankton.  He discussed the design decisions made so that the games could best exploit the touchpad interface, and what about those changes worked and didn't work. 

This game uses biofeedback sensors for input, measuring your skin conductance level and heart rate variability.  These are mapped to objects in the game, controlling the speed of a ball or the steadiness of a rock that is being lifted.  Via breathing, relaxation, and meditation techniques, the player works through a series of on-screen scenarios.

A platform-jumping game that explores a variety of methods of time manipulation, beyond the basic ideas of bullet time and rewind that we see in games now. 

This year we got a lot of submissions that contained new and distinct gameplay elements, but those elements were simple enough not to require a full session to explain. We also spotted some games on the Web of a similar kind.  We made a short presentation summarizing these games with links to more information.