PlayTechs: Programming for fun

The last Assassin's Creed game I played was the first one, which I played to boredom (somewhere in Jerusalem, I think). I like the conce...

I bought my home computer at the tail end of the Windows Vista era, and never got around to upgrading it to Windows 7 because operating syst...

Over the holidays, among other things I was on a Martha Wells reading binge. So far I've read her Raksura trilogy, City of Bones and ...

Just ran across this iOS release. It's a brief space game called New Orbit , from a guy in Austria named Markus Hofer . I had a blast pl...

Harry Connolly's third Twenty Palaces novel Circle of Enemies came out in August. As usual I read it pretty much in one go. I was de...

Rose accidentally bought Gatling Gears on the PS3, so I played it. It's a twin-stick shooter in the Robotron vein, set in a steampunk ...

Good news, everybody! S. John Ross' magnificent text adventure Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom is now free. Play This Thing review...

Here in the Pacific Northwest it hasn't been long since the land changed hands. A lot of sad things happened and are still happening. I ...

Took a week of vacation at home; sigh , yes, a “staycation.” Amongst other things I managed to play a few computer games: Minecraft I've...

I like young adult novels because they tend to be short. There's been a discussion recently amongst independent game developers about ho...

The runup to E3 at work has been busy. I've been getting back to putting in an hour a night on my lunar-lander-on-a-disc, though. Not a...

Transcendence reached version 1.0 this past week, so I have been playing some of that. George Moromisato has been developing it in his spar...

I actually managed to play some games over the holidays, something I haven't done much of in a long time. My opinions: Torchlight : Pret...

The weekend, while long, was busy. We hosted two events: Thanksgiving and my daughter's fourth birthday party. I wasted what little free...

I have been too busy keeping the household running this week to get any programming done. I did manage to play the demo for The Spirit Engin...

I'm averaging about one hour a week of work on my little game project. This week, I added support for multiple predefined maps. I'm ...

Gravitron 2 is a retro-style arcade shooter in the vein of Gravitar and Thrust . You fly a rocket to a series of tiny planet surfaces, wh...

I got a new hard drive and have been gradually getting everything reinstalled. I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade in a few places al...

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom is a text adventure of sorts by S. John Ross. It's likely to offend the sensibilities of Real Inte...

Unpacking took up most of my spare time again. I was given a copy of the third Phoenix Wright game which I've been playing in snatches....