If you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and haven’t heard of the “Appvent Calendar,” go check it out. Blacksmith Games has organized an advent calendar where an iPhone game is given away for free each day in December leading up to Christmas. These are games which are not normally free, and are only free [...]
Archive of posts filed under the games category.
Trials HD
I downloaded the Trials HD trial (heheh) yesterday. I had seen people talk about it on Twitter but I hadn’t tried it out; I thought it was just some racing game or generic 3D motorcycle game or something. It isn’t.
“When is immersion overrated?”
Damion Schubert posted the above question yesterday on his blog (Zen of Design). My answer appears to have been deleted, so I’ll write about it here. I linked to some posts on “Malstrom’s Articles” which I believed to be relevant. I should add that to the links at the right, by the way. I’ll do [...]
Very busy…
There’s been a lot going on, and I don’t have time to explain it all. But that hasn’t stopped me making another amusing shirt, which it so happens is now available for purchase.
Games are fun, but that’s not the point.
Most games are developed with the intent of inducing feelings of “fun” in players. In my opinion, which is at least partially influenced by my read of A Theory of Fun for Game Design, this approach is irresponsible at best. The theory presented by the book is that the feeling we call “having fun” is our brains giving [...]
Close Range
This is a hilarious parody, but perhaps not for the very squeamish. Watch the video and play the “demo.”
Modern Warfare 2
Apparently the marketing people at Activision want Modern Warfare 2 to be the best-selling game of all time. That’s not really very interesting, but I had some fun in the comments thread.
PS3: Difficult by Design
I suppose this shouldn’t be all that surprising. But really? That’s why the PS3 was designed that way? Some seriously flawed logic there.
You might just get 3 after all, David.
So the DM, after reading the previous post, thought the part about how we believed the kids was interesting because he didn’t think it’d be figured out so quickly.
The Real Reason for DRM
Shamus Young has another interesting post about DRM on his blog, Twenty Sided. But I found the insight of one of the commenters even more interesting:
Irresponsible Media
Would you people please stop advertising pirated games? I realize the fact that it’s the 360 version is interesting, but how can you fail to realize that publicizing this will send people looking for it?
