Category: Games

Of watch clocks and game design

This morning, Daring Fireball linked to a great article called Who Watches the Watchmen. It is about the design of watchclocks — devices that date back to the early 1900s that ensure that watchmen are correctly making their rounds. It is a punch-clock-like system with the steampunk equivalent of GPS (encoded into similar keys with … Continue reading Of watch clocks and game design

“Watchmen: Justice is Coming” Mini Review

My mini-review of “Watchmen: Justice is Coming,” the iPhone multiplayer RPG, can be compressed into just one screenshot: …although the screenshot does not properly convey the reconnect time that immediately follows. Edit: also… Posted in:

I made it to Oregon!

I made it to Oregon! Kim, myself, and three cats got there alive — but starving, in poor health and after a few broken arms and bouts with cholera and dysentery. Looking at it now, Oregon Trail is a pretty crappy game but back in the day, it was one of the best around. Supposedly, … Continue reading I made it to Oregon!

Create your own paradox, for the love of pie!

I’m kind of late to the party on this one (I flagged the Brass Goggles article in my RSS a little over a month ago and only got around to viewing it today–stupid office firewall), but The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom looks like a very interesting game. I think it could be summed up by … Continue reading Create your own paradox, for the love of pie!

Cake jugglers and balloon manimals

I started (and finished!) Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People today. It was pretty short, but quite fun! Although I completed the story, I still haven’t found all of the extras yet: three trophies, a Teen Girl Squad thinger, and the last page of the Snake Boxer 5 manual. And hey, that bizarro drive-through whale … Continue reading Cake jugglers and balloon manimals

Bioshock on the iPhone?

I’m not much of a video game player (although increasingly moreso, recently.) I’m even less of a first-person-shooter player. But I have to say that my all time favorite FPS game is Bioshock. Actually, I think it is the only FPS game that I actually like. Anyway, it is coming to the iPhone!!! Details are … Continue reading Bioshock on the iPhone?

Balance Board

I picked up the Wii Balance Board yesterday and got to play with it a bit last night. While my first impression of it, upon hearing about it months ago, was that it was gimmicky and dumb, the reviews I have read in the past week or so have reversed that opinion. I do have … Continue reading Balance Board

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