Category: games

  • LD48 Competition #11 Final Entry – BlockOut

    I managed to cobble together a mildly playable version of my game in time for the end of the Ludum Dare 48 Game Development  competition this weekend.  It’s a concept that I had been toying with this past week, jotting down some ideas and refining it along the way.  Quite simply, it’e the game Breakout,…

  • LD48_11 starts in eight hours

    The LD48 #11 Game Compitition starts in about eight and a half hours. The theme has yet to be decided, but it seems like it will most likely be one of the following: Minimalist (+28), Endless (+24), Defense (+22) or Flood (+15). My personal wish is to get Defense, as I’ve been thinking about a…

  • Jamming out the Games

    I saw a neat post on Playstation.Blog this morning about an internal event held by thatgamecompany called 24 Hour Game Jam.  The object of the event is to create a fun complete game in 24 hours on the PS3, with the specific goal being that they could play it in the office and even more…

  • Jeff Gerstmann lights the fuse on the Giant Bomb [dot com]

    Jeff Gerstmann has finally announced the next big thing:  Brock Lesnar.  No, that doesn’t sound right. Giant Bomb.  Yea, That’s it. Even with his termination from a large gaming website last November, it seemed pretty obvious that Jeff wasn’t done with the gaming industry.  He started a personal blog to post a few game reviews,…

  • We’ve got SimYard, now we only need SimHotDog and SimBeer.

    For the past week I have been addicted to a new online game.  It’s a baseball management simulator called SimYard.  Like other baseball sims, you pick a team name, logo and colors, and pit your team against others.  SimYard has an interesting twist to it.  Your team is made up of semi-pro players who you…