Archive for May, 2010

From The Box: Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Uncategorized: May 12th, 2010

Being a big fan of Michel Ancel (Beyond Good and Evil is one of my favorite games of all time), I had wanted to play Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie for quite a while, but had always avoided it due to my distrust of movie games and the mixed reviews […]

From the Box Review: Brutal Legend

Uncategorized: May 13th, 2010

So, the last review was rather late from when I stopped playing King Kong, and in the mean time, I played Brutal Legend, which was the next game I got out of the box.  I recently beat Brutal Legend, so will now review that.
So I’m a big fan of Tim Schafer.  I love his writing […]

Design Musings: Simulation and Sequel

Uncategorized: May 26th, 2010

This blog post was inspired by a combination of playing computer games such as Master of Orion 1 and 2 and the Might and Magic games, and reading pulp science fiction magazines from the 70s. I began thinking on the design philosophy that drove much of the innovation and creation of new genres in […]