GameSetLinks: From Falcon To Fallout
March 24, 2008 8:00 AM | Simon Carless
Ah yes, a little more GameSetLink-age to start the week, and there's some fun stuff in here - including some of the post-fury discussion on the Metanet comments on Xbox Live Arcade, of course.
But also in there - qDot working towards an open-source driver for the Novint Falcon, which is one of the most fascinating pieces of game peripheral hardware ever offered, but has had some serious game adoption problems - with even the games it ships with being less-than-awesome demonstrations of the tech, I'm afraid. Still, haptics! Onward:
The Problem with Experience-Based Writing (Magical Wasteland)
'We still need articles like Rogers’ passionate, plausible and consequential interpretation of Mother 2, but we also need something more.'
Top 5 Botched PC Gaming Launches from 1UP.com
'Installing a new PC game can be something like a blind date.'
GameOfTheBlog.com: Is this really necessary?
'This' would be 3 different chicken-themed DS games. I blame Europe, randomly!
Dispatches: No More Heroes, Part Two; Or: A Perfect Day For Bloodfish at Game Design Advance
This game seems to be inspiring a lot of intriguing articles.
Flash Of Steel: 'Tom versus Bruce Online'
These are some of my favorite pieces of writing ever (from Games For Windows mag), great to hear they're coming online.
Rockstar slow to release in-game GTA IV screens | Xbox 360 News | GamePro.com
Racist user comments aside, this is headslammingly bad as an angle for a story.
Nonpolynomial Labs News: "That thingy that feels"
Using the Novint Falcon for hacked-up good, perhaps?
David Hellman » Blog Archive » The Art of Braid, Part III: World 2 Comes First
Gonna keep linking these, since they are great.
NeoGAF - View Single Post - N+ Developers talk XBLA: "There's like 100 games, and they're all shit." (plus more!)
A fair point, following up on Metanet, about XBLA releases being of variable quality in any given month!
In Defence of the Apparant Shitstorm | metablog
Metanet follows up on the Gamasutra interview - some amelioration, perhaps, but just a bit.
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Hey! Thanks for posting the info about my project. Could you also possibly add a link to the project to the post? We need devs. :D
http://libnifalcon.sourceforge.net
qDot | March 24, 2008 9:51 AM
Excellent round-up as usual, and this Novlink Falcon peripheral -unlike most gimicky gaming accessories- really seems very promising. A whole new (VR?) interface!
gnome | March 24, 2008 10:29 AM
The top 5 botched PC game launches really needs less Half Life 2 / Steam and a lot more Tribes 2. That game was plagued with so many issues on launch in stability (highly frequent crashing), design (hardcoded controls and ), and performance (slideshow :( ) that I (and many other people) found it to be completely unplayable.
Thank god the patches really cleaned it up. Once it was actually done, the game was fun as hell.
RoushiMSX | March 24, 2008 4:05 PM
Added a direct link in the intro, qDot. We have a Falcon here so I'm looking forward to bizarre implementations, at least SFW ones!
simonc | March 24, 2008 4:18 PM
I know this is not what they mean by experience-based, but I love to imagine a writer at a desk in the middle of the night.... "The time I faced a troll with only a crossbow and a purse of three gold coins in my arsenal...."
oakling | March 27, 2008 10:54 AM