Every Day the Same Dream, by Molleindustria and Paolo Pedercini, is quite satisfying and elegant for what it is. It’s not a very long game, and repetitive with slight variations each time. The thought put into this game shows that simplicity can be packed with meaning, and the ending of the game left me speechless. …
From what I’m told, this is Blizzard’s free to play, Magic cards-like, based off of WoW, game. I’m neither familiar with Magic nor WoW. I was a Starcraft person, myself, but even then, I avoided the battle.net games. Maybe my internet was too slow? Maybe I just wanted to learn about the game without feeling …
You’re flying a spaceship, faster than light, to beat the Rebels to the main base. Along the way, you battle and collect resources for weapons and upgrades. The FTL wiki describes it as follows: FTL: Faster Than Light is a space role-playing game with roguelike elements developed by Subset Games, in which you are the …
I really like my domain name registration service. They charge $10.99 per year, per dotcom. I’ve accumulated 22 names, and lost some over the years (delawarereclaim.com, clubvirture.org, reclaimtalks.com– do I still own that one?). How I do websites. If I have a good name for it, I’ll buy the dotcom. Then I’ll either host the … Continue reading
After years of working on a PhD, I’ve realized that my real motivation to go into Computer Science was to understand myself. As a child, I always struggled to answer the question, “how are you?” There was no quick way to capture how I was. Things seemed more black and white for other people than … Continue reading
It’s hard to isolate the changes you experience each year at GDC. Is the experience different because I’m different or is the industry, itself, different? GDC is a cross-section of our lives, passions, hobbies, and vocation– same time, every year. Every year, I get to serve the industry alongside the industry, and even after a … Continue reading
Like the Candy Box game, there’s a somewhat absurdly deep narrative embedded in these overly straightforward game mechanics. The premise is always very simple (like clicking a cookie to bake a cookie), and, before you know it, you start attracting alien cookie parasites. Anyhow, I’m reviewing it, because, games like these, you can leave running … Continue reading
When I was in college, my Computer Engineering partner, Mike, had built his own arcade unit. I thought the idea was so cool; I’ve always wanted to build my own. Since that microprocessors class we had, I haven’t done much with hardware; well, if you don’t count some projects with Lego Mindstorms. In the midst … Continue reading
I haven’t had a chance to do much other than writing academic papers, but I did manage to try out the Papers, Please Beta. You can buy the full game on Steam for $10. One could imagine an academic parody titled, “Dissertation, Please.” According to dukope.com, the game was created by Lucas Pope: A Dystopian … Continue reading
You’d think that getting a PhD means that you know what it means to get a PhD. A website came my way that gave a good general visualization of what it means to get a PhD. What is a PhD? PhD’s also mean different things depending on discipline. At the last lab meeting, we read … Continue reading
I’ve downloaded many health apps, and the two that work best are MyFitnessPal and RunKeeper. MyFitnessPal allows me to keep track of what I’m eating (with a barcode scanner for those preprocessed foods), and I can’t seem to get enough of all the numbers and graphs that it makes for me. I mean, I’d never … Continue reading
For the most part, it was just that game where you laid tetris pieces down in neat formations, and the little white minions would autonomously move to and fro. Each run through is at least an hour, and after playing 6 or so games, I still don’t remember how to spell/pronounce the title. Rymdkapsel, as … Continue reading
… maybe a Red Head, Lookout, and Locksmith as well. If you’ve ever wanted to be one of the above, then you should play the game “Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine”– http://www.monacoismine.com/ For $15 you can get it on Steam of XBox Live and go on collaborative heists with friends and strangers. Single player mode … Continue reading
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