As an Eagle Scout, I remember fondly -- and sure, sometimes cringingly -- my years as an teenager trying to be "trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent." The camping and hiking were great. I wasn't so wild about earning merit badges, though -- and you had to if you wanted to keep climbing the ranks and not get left behind -- but boys today now have a new merit badge I never had the chance to even try for. At the SXSW (South by Southwest) Conference, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced a long-overdue badge: The Game Design Merit Badge.

The gameplay of recently released platform puzzle game A Puzzling Present may seem on the familiar side, but it's safe to say that no matter how well trod this side-scrolling puzzler may feel at times -- when you're reversing the gravity of a level with the push of a button, for example --  you've probably never played anything quite like it. That's because the maps and gameplay for the game -- in which you play a gift hunting Santa sprite tasked with retrieving presents using new powers that are reassigned every level -- wer designed mostly by an artificial intelligence program known as ANGELINA.