I have no interest in playing this little 'My Moviestar' social game, but I am geekily confused by the demo screens.
Appeared in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? That's Kirsten Dunst. I love Kirsten Dunst. And Neon is no Kirsten Dunst. She's not even blond! (Okay, Spiderman fans are used to KD not being blond, but she was blond in this movie....)
Also appeared in Bring It On... as Missy, Torrance's friend? But... Kirsten Dunst was in that movie. She played Torrance. Not Missy. I AM SO CONFUSED NOW! ARE YOU PSEUDO-KD OR AREN'T YOU???
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Don't trust EA farther than you can throw them
Have a bit of a bank cockup over a very small purchase? Lose access to all your past games that you paid for.
Really, it seems like the only way to deal safely with some of these systems is to open a new account every time you buy a game, so that you minimise the potential damage...
Or, you know, you could do your homework and buy games from nice indies who don't use DRM instead of jumping on the biggest AAA title? But who am I kidding?
Really, it seems like the only way to deal safely with some of these systems is to open a new account every time you buy a game, so that you minimise the potential damage...
Or, you know, you could do your homework and buy games from nice indies who don't use DRM instead of jumping on the biggest AAA title? But who am I kidding?
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Magical Diary
So, if you haven't heard by now, Magical Diary is out on Steam.
If you bought it from me directly and want a Steam key to add the game to your library, forward your email receipt to my support address. The achievements you've already earned in-game should automatically unlock when you launch the Steam version if you install it to the same computer you were using before.
If you haven't already bought it... what are you waiting for? Limited-time discount GO GO GO.
If you bought it from me directly and want a Steam key to add the game to your library, forward your email receipt to my support address. The achievements you've already earned in-game should automatically unlock when you launch the Steam version if you install it to the same computer you were using before.
If you haven't already bought it... what are you waiting for? Limited-time discount GO GO GO.
Monday, 4 June 2012
seen on gamefaqs
Don't buy it, this game is about dating GUYS.
Like wtf, why would anyone want to play a game where you date a guy????
Hear that, straight women, gay men, and other male-inclined entities of the world? YOU DO NOT EXIST!
On the other hand, while I've had people earnestly tell me that I should be selling a game with a male protagonist because "almost all the people who buy games are male", and a couple things like the above, I still manage to avoid the really nasty stuff like this BBC article on harassment in gamer culture.
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Rule The World Or Die Trying - Long Live The Queen!
Our newest release - a deceptively cute, pink, sparkly sim game about being repeatedly killed in as many ways as possible.
Basically, you're this fourteen-year-old princess who's just inherited the throne because the last queen (your mother) died under mysterious circumstances. So you're frantically trying to learn how to manage a country, while all around you EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO KILL YOU in order to get power for themselves. Evil relatives, invasions, civil war, uprisings, assassinations, feuds, eldritch abominations...
... no, I'm not kidding about that last one either.
Juggle a huge pile of stats and make decisions that you can't possibly know the consequences of and then watch them loop around and bite you in the back. And die. And start over again with a better plan.
Also, the outfits are adorable. But don't be fooled into buying this for any very young kids, you'll scar them for life.
Available for PC, Mac, and Linux. Click below for the free demos.
Long Live The Queen
What better way to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee?
Basically, you're this fourteen-year-old princess who's just inherited the throne because the last queen (your mother) died under mysterious circumstances. So you're frantically trying to learn how to manage a country, while all around you EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO KILL YOU in order to get power for themselves. Evil relatives, invasions, civil war, uprisings, assassinations, feuds, eldritch abominations...
... no, I'm not kidding about that last one either.
Juggle a huge pile of stats and make decisions that you can't possibly know the consequences of and then watch them loop around and bite you in the back. And die. And start over again with a better plan.
Also, the outfits are adorable. But don't be fooled into buying this for any very young kids, you'll scar them for life.
Available for PC, Mac, and Linux. Click below for the free demos.
Long Live The Queen
What better way to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee?
Saturday, 2 June 2012
the little things that make it all worthwhile
silly dev-related stuff that amuses me:
Figuring out where people come up with some of the names they use for their characters in yearbook posts.
Listening to someone doing a Let's Play of one of my games, having them read a line of dialogue aloud, snark at it, click to continue, and then discover that the game just made the the exact same followup snark.
Figuring out where people come up with some of the names they use for their characters in yearbook posts.
Listening to someone doing a Let's Play of one of my games, having them read a line of dialogue aloud, snark at it, click to continue, and then discover that the game just made the the exact same followup snark.
Friday, 1 June 2012
i accidentally a purchase
I really didn't need more games.
But Spiky dropped his silver DS a while back, shattering the hinge, and after he managed to wire it back together discovered that the wireless receptor seems to be kaput, so in order to keep playing 2-player games we needed a new DS. And in the process of finding one for sale locally, discovered someone selling a stack of pretty decent DS titles for $10 each.
So now I have:
Chrono Trigger
(I played a little bit of this once a loooong time ago but never finished it)
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
(Oddly I'm not sure I've ever actually played a Castlevania game)
Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
(I played the last entry in this series and had fun with it)
KORG DS-10 Plus
(... I don't actually know what I'm going to do with this, BUT IT'S AWESOME and I couldn't resist the price.)
But Spiky dropped his silver DS a while back, shattering the hinge, and after he managed to wire it back together discovered that the wireless receptor seems to be kaput, so in order to keep playing 2-player games we needed a new DS. And in the process of finding one for sale locally, discovered someone selling a stack of pretty decent DS titles for $10 each.
So now I have:
Chrono Trigger
(I played a little bit of this once a loooong time ago but never finished it)Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
(Oddly I'm not sure I've ever actually played a Castlevania game)Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
(I played the last entry in this series and had fun with it)KORG DS-10 Plus
(... I don't actually know what I'm going to do with this, BUT IT'S AWESOME and I couldn't resist the price.)
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