Work off your Halloween hangover with all this fun. Remember, too many Sour Patch Kids + too many whiskey sours = a bad night.

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You have been fragged by the nominee for Best Director. LittleBigPlanet would like to pretend it has the game-as-creative-tool market all to itself, but independent filmmakers have been using games to create original works for years. It’s called Machinima, a movement that produces movies with the spaces, characters, physics and camera controls of modern game engines—essentially acting as directors in a virtual realm. The best of Machinima will be celebrated at this weekend’s Machinima Filmfest, starting Saturday at 11 a.m., at Eyebeam (540 W. 21st St.).

The video above is Portal: A Day in the Life of a Turret (set in the world of the game Portal, naturally). Nominated for the festival’s Best Short Format award, it could stand a little trimming, but still, it made me laugh.

You may also recognize Machinima from the South Park episode that was set partly in World of Warcraft.

But it looked so good on paper! Even if you didn’t make your own paper airplane last weekend, there’s still a good time to be had the the New Millennium Paper Airplane Contest, an event sponsored by the Public Art Fund. Takeoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. in the Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science. If you want to take advantage of the free shuttle form Manhattan, which leaves at 12:15 from the corner of 15th St. and 10th Ave., you’ll need to RSVP—details are on the event page.

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Abandonware no longer. All of the major consoles have an online shop where you can buy classics from bygone eras, and GOG.com (for Good Old Games) is an attempt to create something similar for the PC. Dealing only in games like MDK2 that have long since evaporated from the bargain bin, GOG looks like a great, DRM-free way to have some fun on the cheap. Most games are around six bucks and download immediately. GOG plans to continue adding new (old) games to the lineup. King’s Quest, please.