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Tipa Via Slashie of Temple of the Roguelike, news of a NEW game programming challenge: Tiny Game 2010. A full game in 40×30 PIXELS, using the 16 color EGA palette. I remember EGA; I wrote an EGA video driver way back when I worked for Digital Research, Inc. The original one. Rules are: 40×30 (or 30×40) … Read more
In Dungeons & Dragons Online, Kasul and I finished our trip through all the Korthos Island instances on Elite mode, giving each of us the maximum amount of favor you can get from those quests. Misery Peak, the one where you don’t kill the dragon, was its usual platforming mini game of jumping around a … Read more
This is a softball pitch. Nice and slow and over home plate. Disney’s 1982 masterpiece Tron is up for a sequel in December, Tron Legacy, and if someone isn’t working on an MMO to take advantage of that right now, I’d be shocked. Furthermore, the folks at Monolith already made a FPS game based on … Read more
When Law & Order starts its 21st season this year, it will become the longest continually running drama on American television — surpassing previous record holder, Gunsmoke. Law & Order is both a police and a courtroom procedural. In the first half of the show, a crime is discovered and a police investigation leads to … Read more
MMO devs fire broadside press releases at my inbox, and I inflict them on others. We’ll suffer together or not at all. Actually, let’s start off with a non-MMO offer. The Humble Indie Bundle from Wolfire Games collects five acclaimed Indie games (including the addictive building game World of Goo, underwater fantasy Aquaria, innovative platformer … Read more