Since my usual D&D group can’t play while I’m travelling, here’s a D&D themed pun interlude to tide them over.
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Since my usual D&D group can’t play while I’m travelling, here’s a D&D themed pun interlude to tide them over.
I was playing a bunch of different little games recently, with a common (if stretched) theme of city builders. I thought Iād give some quick reviews here to share my thoughts – they all had things to like. Giving the verdict on the same line as the title to avoid suspense, since I’m not giving detailed verdicts anyway.
The fledgling review section isn’t complete without an example of a positive review. Fortunately a relevant milestone has come up. I recently passed over 256 hours on my primary Disgaea DS save slot. It doesn’t get that far along unless I’m giving it a š verdict.
I got a new game recently. It inspired me to rant about porting console games to PC. I used to think that it should happen more often, but I’m no longer convinced that game developers are competent enough to turn even a good console game into a quality PC port.
It’ll come as no surprise to anyone that I like writing QML games, my gitorious account is littered with the prototypes I’ve thrown up in a few hours for fun. I’ve done another one which has proved to be extra-large: about a full working day’s effort scattered across a couple of nights.https://github.com/416365416c/checkers has a QML checkers prototype, with Human-on-Human and VS AI modes. It was fun and educational, which is good because checkers isn’t a very interesting game otherwise š .
I was discussing games at work recently, and ended up analyzing Hero Academy as a card-based TBS with a interesting global action points mechanic. I’m probably mis-characterizing Hero Academy, as I’ve never even finished a game, but at least that fits my pattern of video game analysis. I started to sound so formulaic that my past enjoyment of madlibs led me to create stochastic strings following this formula; they sound just like me but are sometimes amusing and thought-provoking.
One piece that has been requested is for me to write up my review of Pandemic, by Matt Leacock. It was requested in the vein of “If you don’t like it, justify that verdict”. So I’ll skip to the end, which you’ve guessed already. Verdict: š .