I achieved 100% completion in Red Dead Redemption in just over 43 hours, and nothing else I’ve played this year has come close to equalling that gaming experience. I normally avoid 100% completion—I would like to think I have better things to do, and I believe my friends and family tend to agree. In this [...]
Red Dead Redemption, sans Redemption?
May 21, ’10
10:56 PM
Red Dead Redemption was the most exciting game I didn’t get to play at PAX East. I’d barely heard of it prior to the convention, and I certainly wasn’t going to wait in that line to try a brief demo, but I left PAX craving old western films and quietly counting down the days until [...]
Tired of this ‘Citizen Kane’ Nonsense
Apr 29, ’10
5:52 PM
There have been many posts written by people searching for the “Citizen Kane” of video games, some masterpiece that will bring artistic acceptance* to the entire medium. There have been many responses, from the knee-jerk to the articulate, but Sean Sands has finally written a response that I can agree with. In So Long Orson [...]
The Graveyard
Mar 12, ’10
11:11 PM
They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and I believe the same can be said for game consoles. I own a DS and a PSP, but now that I actually have a daily commute that could finally provide a good outlet for my portable gaming habits, I have found that [...]
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Feb 21, ’10
11:41 PM
This weekend I participated in another Game Jam, this one organized by Darius Kazemi and Emily Daniels and hosted at the DINO/Sprout space near Davis in Somerville between Saturday morning and Sunday evening evening. I teamed up with Michael Carriere to make a fun little platformer, and to try my hand at some new kinds [...]
Game Jam 2010 Complete: Quest for Stick!
Jan 31, ’10
9:06 PM
Pretty worn out from the Global Game Jam this weekend, but I couldn’t have spent the past couple days with better people—or doing cooler things. It is not the most up-to-date build so there will still be quirks, but our game Quest for Stick is now available at the Global Game Jam 2010 Website! http://globalgamejam.com/2010/quest-stick Edit, [...]
The Global Game Jam
Jan 26, ’10
7:05 AM
As I mentioned before, I will be participating in this weekend’s Global Game Jam. Essentially the video game development community’s answer to the 48 hour film project, the Game Jam is a collaborative game-making effort that will run from 5pm on Friday the 29th through the afternoon of Sunday the 31st, at which point we [...]