A blog about life, the universe and everything - but mainly games.
Please check out the excellent small flash potential button masher of a one button game called “Flight of the Hamsters”. Brilliantly mixing a simple game play, fair amount of luck and cute hamster graphics. Addictive stuff.
Ah! And while I’m at it. Another recommendable button masher out there for the PS3 is the new Buzz! Wireless buzzers, improved graphics and online modes works wonders for the good old Buzz formula.
More and more and more and more people play and make games. And budgets gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. So it’s getting more and more and more and more difficult for small independent developers to get noticed. Witch is a pity as they make better and better and better and better games.
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2007 has been one of the best years ever for video gamers. Here’s a quick list of the games I’ve enjoyed the most.
Continue reading ‘Games of the Year 2007′
Before moving to France I remember discussions we had amongst my board gaming friends in Bergen on “Could it be possible, and more importantly practical and enjoyable, to continue playing board games over the internet?” Sure one can play games online here and there, in real time, like Puerto Rico or Go, or even at slower pace, like Through the Desert, but the experience remains entirely virtual. The mouse and keyboard can hardly replace the wooden pieces found in a real game… What if we could use webcams and multiple copies of the real game in question? (Technically this has been done for ages with correspondence chess.) What kind of games could one play? Would the the game need to be a game like Caylus or Puerto Rico, or even Go, where all the information is open to all the players, or could one devise a system to transmit hidden information - like cards drawn and such to players afar by for example having someone at the “main game” showing them to a webcam? This has so far remained an experiment of thought, and we’ve continued to play virtual games when needed. Until now…
Continue reading ‘Board Gaming 2.0′
And better so than ever!
“Sir, yes Sir!”
Once again I’m falling for the temptation to brag about the first time I did this or that as an opening of a blog post. Several years ago I played Worms on any trusty Amiga I could lay my hands on, be it the ones of friends, family members, scout leaders, class mates or my own. The concept was not new - as such; taking turns lobbing weapons influenced by gravity, wind etc. at an opponent inhabiting the same randomly generated landscape as oneself. (I had even made a version on my Casio calculator in high school.) What was new was the humour - in sound and graphics - and the perfectly balanced weapon set Team 17 had implemented, as well as the intuitive and playful way the game played. Brilliant.
“Come on, then!”
As one has been speculating for almost two years; Sid Meier’s Civilization for the DS is now announced! This will certainly be interesting to follow. To be able to enjoy a pocket version of Civ can prove destructively addicting, though…
Continue reading ‘Civilization on the Go’
Since I’ve posted approximately 9 posts without much game-related content, it’s about time to get back on track here again. Today; some recent discoveries in the puzzle game genre.
When I was younger, so much younger than today, around 10 perhaps, I often walked the 2 km back home from school. (That was before everybody bought immense SUVs and the world along narrow winding roads was a safer place, but that’s besides the point.) The walk could take everything from thirty minutes up to several hours. Depending on if and what company I had and if I had something interesting to think about. Sometimes I rushed home even if I had something interesting to think about, because perhaps I had a copy of a game in my rucksack. (I think it was almost legal to copy games from friends in Norway back then.) This made me perform my first philosophical discourse.
Spring, or rather pre-spring (not really winter here in Lyon this year), has made me want to focus on two video games that I have been neglecting lately; good old Photoshop and Cubase!
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A quick list of this years games I’ve enjoyed the most.
Continue reading ‘Games of the Year 2006′
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