GameSetLinks: From Falcon To Fallout
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.
Comments
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
Posted by: 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!
Posted by: 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.
Posted by: 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!
Posted by: 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...."
Posted by: oakling | March 27, 2008 10:54 AM