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Read Only memories
Read Only memories is a Text Adventure cum point and click game set in the future in Neo-San Francisco. Its 'retro-futuristic pixel art by JJSignal is gorgeously coloured and there's the talk of 'the dark side of technology'. There is an abundance of dialogue and a synth soundtrack which can all be sampled at MidBoss's website
Read Only Memories is discussed at Rock Paper Shotgun where I first heard about it.
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This EVE Online Shipsizevideo Scale Edit video has nice, clean view of loads of ships from the EVE Online universe. Abstracting them from the city, people etc. with their flat matt renders really shows the spaceships off to their best advantage. I also like the accompanying soundtrack.
There's an hour long version; EVE Online Shipsizevideo should you wish to partake
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Friday, 21 August 2015
EVE Templar One from CCP
ISBN: 978 575 09021 7 (Trade Paperback)
Choosing what to play
Triple-A, Indie, shareware, freeware, abandonware, shovelware, exploitationware, play anywhere. A plethora of games are released daily; the choice is immense, the variety bewildering and with only 24 hours in a day, how do you choose what to play?
Reading Reviews is usually a first answer. There are many sites that review every game and while this can point...
Meme is one of those words that we all have heard of but when it comes right down to it, I find it difficult to explain what one is - 'It's a thing, that everyone knows about, where people have seen something or heard something, that's then used by everybody and everybody knows what it is and what it means but it's used in a different context and it's funny, you know?' (definition not pulled from the Oxford English Dictionary).
OED Definition (definition pulled from the Oxford English Dictionary ;-) ).
Memes are everywhere, popular culture...
Thursday, 20 August 2015
I got to finally start The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
I started out in the back of a cart and I got to look around and it brightened as I approached a town. It was only then that I realised I was a prisoner and I was about to be executed. I got to create my character, I was pretty conservative, I realise that now. Someone got beheaded, woah! It was pretty realistic. So, It's going to be that kind of game. OK. Then something, sound and the sky...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Cyberpunk is so intertwined in the rise of computer gaming that, as a computer game theme it will always be in favour. It will wax and wane like a sickly moon against the smog of a futuristic city, choking on its own waste products but it will always find someone willing to connect their deck to a terminal and hack in. Many games take cyberpunk as inspiration for their story such as the Deus Ex series. Below are some of the more esoteric ones.
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Sunday, 16 August 2015
I still remember reading my first piece of Cyberpunk. It was Neuromancer by William Gibson and the thing that stays with me to this very day is the opening line
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Cyberpunk has evolved from its genesis in Blade Runner (the film by Ridley Scott, 1982 which was loosely based upon Philip K. Dick's book; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968) and the Sprawl trilogy...
So, What's Play?'Play is older than culture'Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan H. Huizinga (1 Feb 1992)The Dutch Philosopher Johan Huizinga, in his Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture argues that play is a fundamental fact of human life. His works in general discussed the play element in culture.
This dude made playing games legal! It's part of culture, why hasn't he got a national holiday? Playday!Homo...
I once started to study archeology. I was swayed by Time Team and the thoughts of time travel to the past but I broke my ankle, missed some sessions and working nights & shifts took its toll. I drifted out of it. I still have an excellent book; Archaeology An Introduction by Kevin Greene (Third Edition - Routledge).
When I came across Actual Archaeologist is Digging Through World of Warcraft, Skyrim at Kotaku, my interest was piqued.
Archeogaming actually exists, it's got its own website sensibly entitled Archeogaming and there's a conference!...
Saturday, 15 August 2015
When we're talking procedurally generated, lots. In the case of No Man's Land from Hello Games, it's 18 Quintillion!
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 to be precise and we may as well be precise if we are going to this level of detail. The number, is 2 to the power 64, which is 64 bits. It has been estimated that it would take nigh on 585 billion years to visit each one. Now that's what I call a game with replay value.
I have been following...
The Key
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition
I've now finally gotten around to installing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition.
What a palava (a cross between a pavlova and a pullover?). I purchased said game back in October last year, did nothing with it for eons. So, the moon is full, Mercury is in ascendence (whatever that means, the bones have been thrown and all bodes well. I open the case; a gorgeous full colour...
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