GameSetLinks: General Patton Locks Things Up
Still harvesting the fruits of a couple of hundred RSS feeds, and there's some pretty smart stuff hanging out there - from Patton Oswalt regretting his Spike Game Awards performance through Japanmanship on region locking.
Also hanging out there - Game Tunnel on casual games, and a new intriguing PC indie title from another former Game Developer programming columnist - Sean Barrett - another of these folks who have a brain the size of a planet (or at least a major asteroid!):
Japanmanship: The global gamer’s lot
On region locking and games.
Looky Touchy: Patton Oswalt on the Spike Game Awards: "Godawful"
'The worst thing about this show was the fact that I'm the cheap, money-grubbing asshole who agreed to do it.'
Completing Nostalgia | The New Gamer
'However, there's one aging console that features a plethora of titles that I love but never completed: the Dreamcast, the console that dragged me back into gaming!'
Grand Text Auto » Opening the Static Eye
A new static-based indie game from Sean Barrett.
2007 Casual Game of the Year by Game Tunnel
IGF finalist Snapshot Adventures is top, too.
GameDevBlog: Manager In A Strange Land: How Much Planning?
'From my anecdotal evidence, a month of planning without coding is the wrong amount. Did we need more or less?'
Forgotten Lore » Blog Archive » Strategy Map
'If you want to design strategy games one tool in your box should be a solid grounding in military history.'
Rifftrax's Mike Nelson: 'My Prediction…? PAIN'
'The story is this: there’s a guy. You with me so far? And you shoot him out of a catapult, all right?' (Via PressTheButtons)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: The Future of Sandbox Games
'Are we going to get bigger worlds with shallower dynamics or smaller worlds with deeper dynamics?'









Comments
Watching gameplay video from PAIN was really disappointing -- they seem to have taken Stair Dismount and ruined the fun by beating it over the head with frat-style "comedy"..
"Spank the Monkey"?! Or how about the "woo-hoo" sounds dude makes when he's flying through the air? Or how about the tricks?! Horribly lame.
Posted by: raigan | December 16, 2007 7:00 PM
perhaps PAIN has lost the elegant absurdity of stair dismount, but i still find it ridiculously fun to play for the same kinds of reasons i enjoyed kicking a box-man down flat-shaded stairs. the fratboyishness hasn't ruined it for me at all.
Posted by: bunnyhero | December 19, 2007 1:08 AM