MinecraftPointless | Submitted by costik on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 16:42. |
N.B.: This review was of Minecraft in its earliest outing; see here for a more recent (and favorable) take on the game
Back in the day, I entered Habitat and played around with it. And I remember Chip Morningstar telling me that it "wasn't just a game," and thinking "Too bad! It could be a pretty good game!" That is, if you bolted on some, you know, actual gameplay. Something to do. An objective.
<Backspace<The Logs of Yesteryear | Submitted by costik on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 16:09. |
<Backspace< is, in essence, a typing game from Sean Chan (creator, among others, of Battleships Forever). It has some interesting visuals -- floating text in the background, a chartreuse-on-black scheme reminiscent of an old school monitor, circa 1982. You're presented with text to type, and the faster you do so (accurately), the more points you score.
The gimmick is that the text you type is an MSN chat log. The "load" option defaults to subfolder in your Documents folder where MSN stores chat logs, and you can load any one. You're typing both sides of the conversation.
Doing the Impossible
Today, first-person shooters take millions of dollars, years, and huge teams to develop, right? It's just impossible for a lone-wolf developer to create an FPS that's compelling.
Well, maybe not--if you concentrate on innovative gameplay instead of polygon count and particle effects. That's what Rune Trollebo has done.
