Come for the games, stay for the drama.
I quit Frontierville tonight. No big deal. I ended up playing it a lot longer than I thought I would, actually. I got to a point in FV where I’d just log in once in the morning and once again at night, harvest stuff, visit neighbors, see what folks were up to. Some people arranged … Read more
In these social town/farm/empire/chocolate shop building games on Facebook, it’s hard to see your entire place all at once. Even zoomed out in Frontierville, you can only see a fraction of your homestead — and that, blurredly. Enter Autostitch. I took 46 individual pictures of my homestead, cut out the UI cruft, loaded them into … Read more
While yesterday’s look at Playfish’ “My Empire” showed a game that at least reminds us of an actual game — a city simulator in the vein of the popular Caesar series — the core gamer saves their real scorn for the ubiquitous clicking games that made Zynga into the gaming powerhouse it is today. Make … Read more