Beautifully produced flash games from the Submachine guy. Mostly point-and-click, some platform. I tried Daymare Town, Mission to Mars and Covert Front.
Cleverly addictive numbers & blocks flash game with unintuitive rules (so be sure and read the FAQ). Also something to do with a Numb3rs TV show ARG apparently but it’s entertaining in its own right.
There should be more of this about, highlighting and celebrating the little things done differently.
So there was this mini brouhaha last week over trash talk on xbox live, and homophobic or discriminatory trash talk in particular. It was kicked off by a video posted on gaygamer.net of someone with the gamertag “xxx GayBoy xxx” playing Halo 3 multiplayer. Naturally, the air was turning blue around him. Despite the shocked tone of gaygamer’s post, however, commenters have remained admirably measured in their response and note that the video only contains a couple of instances of full-fledged hate speech.
Sleater Kinney band member sour-facedly critiques Rock Band on Slate. Metafilter responds and puts her in her place.
ScummVM for the iPhone. Looks like fun, and a good match. The main barrier I find to playing old adventure games and RPGs these days though is just the pace. Too much watching and waiting and not enough continuous, smooth interaction.
A nice stand-in for the usual weekly video rant/review.
So what’s it all about? Well, this is my new website. Mostly a blog, but in its dreams it’s part tumblelog (give me a little while longer to work on that).
Need to go through these for the blog at some point. Check if any are relevant.
There’s been plenty of mentions of the potential for speed gains, but here’s a short walk through what’s possible when Java and Ruby are on good speaking terms.