If you grew up in the 90’s in the uk then the chances are you have fond love for two television programmes. CITV’s Knightmare and Roy Walker‘s Catchphrase (I know about that Stephen Muhern show, I mean it’s good, but he’ll never be Roy Walker). While a game based on knightmare already exists (on Read more…
Neighbours is an Australian documentary following the lives of the residents of Ramsey Street. Kangaroos roam the streets while young surfers drunk on fosters try their not to ride into during skateboard races. This is captured perfectly in the Neighbours Video game that was released on the Commodore 64 in Read more…
At first glance it would be easy to dismiss Murder Miners as simply a minecraft rip off. While there is clearly lots of inspiration gained from Minecraft, Murder Miners is geared towards pvp deathmatch instead of Mining and building. My favourite mode is called Zombie and starts of with simple Read more…
I like games that you can enjoy in short amounts of time and think some of the most successful of these games somehow managed to throw massive amounts of charm at you very quicky. There was a RPG PSP game called something like 10 minute hero which I think made Read more…
As those who followed the Game Group administration story earlier this year know, purchasing physical media for games is on the way out. This isn’t a recent thing, for many years PC gamers have had to install digital distribution systems to get their hands on the the latest games. The most popular Read more…
When you email your favorite artists you don’t always expect a response. I had emailed Tarn Adams asking him his thoughts on ABM and how he modeled the interactions of his Dwarfs, I was lucky enough to get a reply! Tarn told me he was not aware of what was Read more…
This weekend I stumbled upon a fantastic game called Dwarf Fortress. The game is a management/city building game. First the game must randomly generate a persistent world that spans a very detailed 1000 years of history. You then take a bunch of dwarfs, find a mountain, start digging out your Read more…
Wanna see what happened to my server? It took 4 days to for it to became a Nazi Fort : ( I kept out of the world and decided to let players do whatever they wanted to my world. This server was put up early in the life of Minecraft Read more…
I recently read a blog post about intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. I’ve come across and heard a lot of talk following a similar thought pattern to this blog post, the common theme being that extrinsic rewards can be counter productive with a suggestion that we could learn from video games Read more…
Demon’s Souls is currently my favorite game and although I have not progressed very far in the game I have poured many hours in to the first few zones. I have created many different characters setups, explored early dungeons extensively, studied enemy locations and pinpointed their weaknesses. Typically I am Read more…
