Contents tagged with Gaming
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3D before GPUs Part 1: Dungeon Master
In this series, I'll reverse-engineer algorithms from video games dating back to that time when the CPU was all you had. Today, we're looking at Dungeon Master, a fantastic game by FTL that set the gold standard for RPGs for the years to follow. It looked amazing, and still does to this day. It changed everything.
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Why Guitar Hero is dead to me
I bought the new Guitar Hero 5 because I needed a new fake plastic guitar and Activision’s guitars are the best that are not outrageously expensive. The Rock Band guitars I just can’t stand. So as I was going to buy a guitar from them, I thought I might as well get a (couple of) cheap game(s) with it. -
Five gems of XBLA
What are your favorite XBLA games?
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The PlayStation’s Flower power
Yesterday, I bought Flower for the PS3 and played it through in one sitting (the game is really short but still, couldn’t get my hands off the controller once I started). -
VirtualAlbion using Deep Zoom and SeaDragon Ajax
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We need Rock Band / Guitar Hero song compatibility
In this post, the Penny Arcade guys make the point that beyond instrument capability, what we really need is song compatibility between the two. Beyond the licensing nightmare that would probably represent for both games publishers, this resonated really well for me. Here’s why and why it makes perfectly good business sense below the apparent “yeah, right, you wish” appearances.
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I don't like Braid. What's wrong with me?
I really, really like a good puzzle game. So when I saw Braid announced and read the raving critics, I was quite sure this was a game for me. I really wanted to like it. Then I downloaded the trial version... and pretty much hated it. So here are some critic's citations and how they resonated for me:
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You're not being reasonable
Ever since it came out, it seems like Wii Play has been somewhere on top of sales charts and even managed to be the #2 top-seller of 2007 in the US. Let's be clear about this: even if it looks like a good deal, being only $10 above the price of a standalone Wiimote, it really isn't. It would be a good deal *if* Wii Play itself was worth $10, which it isn't by a very large margin (i.e. at least $10). As a matter of facts, if you gave me $10 to play this thing (which I refuse to call a game), I would decline. And I want the fifteen minutes I spent trying to play it back.
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How to build the best fake music instrument set for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Here's how to build an instrument set with two guitars/basses, a drum set and a mike that will work for Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
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Arbitrary Criteria Game Review: Portal is as delicious as cake
What a great time to be a gamer. It seems like there is no end in sight to that steady stream of excellent games. We already got Bioshock, Halo 3, the Orange Box, Guitar Hero III, and we're waiting for Rock Band, Mass Effect, all before Christmas. What we lack is time to play them all.