Archive for January 2006
How do people play games?
An interesting experiment to see how people play video games. They used the NES version of Gradius to see what decisions people make whilst playing. The people who played this game are clearly very good at it (at least better than me) and the thing has been presented as a single video with all the players overlaid so that you can see who does what. It looks cool but I lost track of what was going on about five ...
Movie Roundup – January 06
The TerminalI wasn't expecting much from this, but simply because of Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg figured it was worth a try. The film itself was a quite nice enjoyable simple little movie. Apparently the film was inspired by Merhan Karimi Nasseri an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988 (apparently he is still there).
Catch Me If You CanAnother Tom Hanks ...
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Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.