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Key polling, part deux

Keith Peters put up a comprehensive blog post on why he disagrees with generic keyboard managers. It’s well worth reading. I have to admit, i couldn’t even conceive of input events directly altering the model without first passing through an input testing step in the game loop. It’s practically game dev heresy! It apparently boils [...]

Oh fuck you Tecmo

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/japanese-bounce-ninja-gaiden/56119 Oh Tecmo. Seriously. Fuck you, you god damn imbeciles. You’re sitting on one of the best action adventure properties of the modern world, and you resort to this shit. You stupid motherfuckers. Watch me Ninja the eff away from your brand.

A darker, edgier Disney

This is just fucking tragic. Warren Spector, you’re one of my absolute game design heroes. Why’d you have to go and do this: Merely concept art, this stuff is nonetheless absolutely abominable. I would love to see stuff like this on Deviantart, but as a visual guideline for a Mickey game? A post apocalyptic steampunk [...]

Honest Al’s Electric BloodBowl Championship #2

Match day! I made arrangements with my opponent, and our match began at 8pm sharp. It turns out either i had misunderstood, or my opponent had, but having been told every team would be freshly rolled i was surprised to meet an experienced team of Lizardmen featuring a scrimmage line of  level 2 sauri all [...]

Honest Al’s Electric BloodBowl Championship

I’m playing a Blood Bowl cup! Following Kieron Gillen’s game reports and extended Blood Bowl press over at Rock Paper Shotgun, i was delighted to be asked to join a coworker and his friends in a cup organized through Facebook. Blood Bowl is the kind of game you really want to play with friends, which [...]