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Overview When I was younger I barely knew anything of Dante's Inferno other than that some of my friends were required to read it for a literature class and it sounded like it had a cool name. I knew the epic poem described the nine circles of Hell and thought 'Boy, I bet that'd make a good game'. Then in 2010 Visceral Games came around and put out a loosely-Inferno based game titled Dante's Inferno. Design The story of Dante's Inferno (herein 'Dante's Inferno' will refer to the game, not the poem)...
Posted On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 12:31 PM | Feedback (0)
Overview Shadows of the Damned is 'a survival horror' game developed by Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture, known for it's visionary founder Suda51 and the games Killer7 and No More Heroes. The cover art (US) touts the game as 'A Suda51 Trip' and as my first Suda51 experience, I was treated to a unique game with a few flaws. Design It's hard to even begin to talk about Shadows of the Damned without first touching on the uniqueness of the direction of the game. Now, I'm no stranger to a unique...
Posted On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:49 AM | Feedback (0)
Recently I purchased 3 large volumes on using the Unreal 3 Engine to create levels and custom games. This past weekend I cracked the spine of the first and started reading. Here are my early impressions (I'm ~250 pages into it, with appendices it's about 900). Pros Interestingly, the book starts with an overview of the Unreal engines leading up to Unreal 3 (including Gears of War) and follows with some discussion on planning a mod and what goes into the game development process. This is nice for...
Posted On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:26 AM | Feedback (0)
Postal was revered in many countries because of it’s inherent ability to tick off people by going over the line with overly inappropriate ‘jokes’. Of course, our good friend Mr. Uwe Boll thought it a good idea to make a movie based on a game where random killing is built-in. Oddly though, the movie isn’t half bad. The movie actually is a relatively good representation of what the game is. Essentially the main character (known only as ‘The Postal Dude’) gets so annoyed with the little things of everyday...
Posted On Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:43 PM | Feedback (0)
When I was younger I remember times of cartoons like David the Gnome, Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, and DuckTales. Between my animated excursions I was forced to watch something I didn’t fully understand, that show was Double Dare. The smiles of the audience and the greedy little children having ‘fun’ by answering questions and forcing their bodies through simple games that almost didn’t make sense. I am now 23 and I understand the joy of laughing at said contestants. But wait, I have just played...
Posted On Sunday, April 19, 2009 4:15 PM | Feedback (1)