thoughts on games, reality and the stuff in between
Posted in Game Opinions on Feb 3rd, 2012
At the end of my last posting I mentioned an insight into personal playing styles. Now I want to investigate it further and do a little personal reflection. The main lesson being: The better you know yourself, the better you can reflect your decisions and motivations. Even when designing games. The insight goes like this [...]
Posted in Game Opinions on Jan 27th, 2012
Sometime I find myself guilty of procrastination. Who isn’t? Finding thousands of little things to do instead of the one you should be doing? And suddenly your apartment is cleaned up after years of neglect – on finals week. This is why I somehow found time to have a look at the demo for Kingdoms [...]
Posted in Game Opinions, Games industry on Jan 13th, 2012
Usually, I will not comment on the current news cycle, but this is one is too good to pass up: There will be a new UFO game. It will be turn-based. And it will be made by Firaxis (the Civilization guys). So how about that? First reaction: Great! “Turn-based tactics” is the one genre I [...]