GameCity 2010 was a while back; 27th to the 30th of October. This is a late report, with all the pedantry of trying to remember things from it that are worth reporting on! Talks, Panels and Notes Firstly, I have done some rather lengthy notes this year. This comes from doing them on my laptop [...]
Tagged Chris Hecker, GameCity, Iain Simons, Jonathan BlowRob Fearon does a great overview of game explosions. Absolutely beautiful stuff!
Tagged ExplosionThey do fun browser-based diversions – text-based choice games, which have fun stat-changing decisions and chapters. You can be a roaring Dragon or take part in a Hornblower-esk Navy adventure. I never really seriously read “Choose your own adventure” books – I did have some but always cheated just to check out how the books [...]
Tagged Choose your own adventureGambling Lambs went on yesterday evening, and lo, it was good, involving: Me learning finally how to do bits of a Rubik’s cube, thanks to David (I’ve forgotten the exact combinations now but I get the theory). He knows his l33t cubes. Being on film for a local BBC documentary on videogames and games (which [...]
Tagged board games, card games, Gambling LambsThe entries are now out, all 226 of them. I didn’t realise so many got past the initial entry phase! (I’ve no idea if it’s more or less then last year). There is a lot of competition, from some great games – I’ve only have the opportunity to play around 5-10 of them, and the [...]
Tagged awards, festival, igf