Weekly Update: Evolve Alpha (Preview)
Hi all, So for this week I didn’t get around to completing a game as I’m working on Twixel too much, but I did manage to fit a bit of time in for playing the Evolve Alpha by Turtle Rock Studios and 2K Games. If you want to take a look at my thoughts on the alpha, then please by all means follow the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/preview/92096/hunting-down-evolution-in-evolve and to update you all on the progress of Twixel, I’ve just recently sent out a second test copy to testers, so I hope to hear feedback in the near future. I’ve changed the font used in most of the game, and have also made 4 additional levels that will be completely random. It’s all exciting and scary at the same time, so much so that I’m pretty sure I’m going to miss my release date unfortunately, but I’ll hammer on regardless. Until…
Weekly Gaming: Driveclub (PS4)
Hi all, So recently I’ve been extremely busy with making my game, as it’s due to be released on the 18th of November. These are scary times for me, but in the interim, I managed to fit in some playtime of Driveclub for the PS4. To read the review, head on over to GamrReview at my link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/92041/driveclub-ps4 A lot of people don’t like the review and the score I gave it, but I stand by everything I wrote. At the end of the day, Driveclub was not a good game for me, despite how excited I was to play it since it was first announced in 2013. Regardless, I’ll be posting some updates soon on where to find my game online, Til next time guys and gals! Dan
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 5 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
So here we are. After 4 episodes of The Walking Dead Season 2 we’re finally here, the penultimate conclusion of what will happen with the group and Clementine herself. Given the insanity of what happened at the end of the last episode (Rebecca being shot in the head due to turning into a zombie) and all out war happening between the Russians and our group, I was excited and interested of what would come of everyone, expecting the series to conclude with Clementine by herself again. Anyway, back to the start of the episode, where the consequences of the firefight are starting to play out. Luke gets injured and a few Russians die, with Jane making a return as she heard the guns going off and felt obliged to help. I was thankful of this conclusion as I was expecting the firefight to be a cop-out for the writers to…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 4 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After enjoying Episode 3 last week, I was looking forward to getting my teeth into episode 4, with the shit storm 3 left us with. For those of you who haven’t played, Episode 3 finished with the group managing to escape from the superstore and start making their way through the hoard of zombies disguised as zombies themselves with Zombie guts all over them. You finally come across radia? who has been bitten by a zombie, and its your choice whether to cut her arm off or to kill the zombie biting her. As I’ve been playing this season through as fairly heartless and logical, I went for her arm, ensuring she wouldn’t get infected and would at least live to see another day. Episode 4 begins with telling you whether your decision was meaningless and stupid regardless, just to ensure you have fights and tension later on with the…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 3 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
With Episode 2 of the second season of Walking Dead not really gripping me, I was looking forward to jumping into episode 3 to see what would become of the group of characters being slaves in a supermarket, considering how angry and psychotic one of the characters behaved at the end of the last episode. This was certainly going to be a better episode if not purely for the fact the season has to make a lot of plot points to tie it all up nicely within the next 2 episodes, so with more characters, more deaths and more decisions, I was hoping for the best. The episode starts out by introducing you to a few new characters at a new place: a superstore that has been barricaded and held up. We’re told the group currently occupying the place has done such a good job of holding up that they…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After playing through Episode 1 of The Walking Dead’s new season, It was time to jump straight into episode 2 to ensure I got to know my new group all the more better than our initial encounter. I wouldn’t recommend playing The Walking Dead straight through from start to finish, but playing a day between each episode seems to be the best experience. The episode starts out from the offset with your decision from the previous episode taking full effect. You’re being chased down with your choice of character that you saved whilst zombies make their way towards you. Clementine and Nick (I saved the guy that hadn’t been bitten), manage to find a shack that they can hold up in, and so starts the next 2 hours of character building, where not much actually happens in the scheme of losing characters or making big decisions, but instead you get…
Weekly Gaming: The Sims 4 (PC)
Hi all! This week I took a look at The Sims 4 by EA, the latest in their long line of Sims sequels. I had mixed feelings about it, and even disliked a lot of the changes that had been made, but read the review to find out my true feelings. Edit: Apologies, I seem to have forgotten to include the link to my review, here it is: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91954/the-sims-4-pc As for Twixel, this week I’ve been working on a new touch method for iOS and Android, and have been implementing a new credits screen. I’m also hoping to have a trailer and poster ready for next weeks Eurogamer, considering it would have been a year since I attended it last. I’ll be writing up quite a few articles for Eurogamer next week, so look out over at GamrReview.com to see everything I write. Thanks again for your continued support, Dan
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
I loved The Walking Dead Season 1. It was a masterclass in how to narrate a game, and how to build a world to make you feel that your decisions and your progress in the game actually shaped and formed the world you encompassed. Many agreed, with the original winning many awards and having a hand in Telltale games being able to grab franchises such as Borderlands and Game of Thrones, ensuring their dominance of the story telling adventure game genre was theirs and theirs alone. Season 2 is a return to their routes, the series that got them on the map, and is certainly one of the most anticipated games to release for a while. The game starts you out from the offset as clementine, you won’t be controlling anyone else this season, so you best get used to being a small child in this frightening and gruesome world. You’re with…
Weekly Gaming: Back to Bed (iOS)
Hi all, So last week I reviewed a copy of Back to Bed that I managed to get on iOS. It was a nifty game, one that constantly reminded me of Monument Valley, a game I absolutely adored. To read the review, click the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91914/back-to-bed-ios This week I’ve been working on changing the main menu colours of my game to ensure that users on mobile can actually see the text. To say that grey text on a black background doesn’t work on mobiles in an understatement. Thanks again for all of your support! Dan
Weekly Gaming: Entwined (PS4)
Having recently purchased a PS4, I decided that I needed to see some of the games that were available for it. Looking around on the PSN Store I found Entwined, a game I recall seeing at the E3 press conference just a few months ago. The game has a similar mechanic not unlike my own where players control two characters on screen at once ensuring that they’re pushed to the limits in getting the hang of controlling two independent characters. The game was only £6.49, and cross compatible on PS3, PS Vita and PS4, so I decided to take the plunge, as I recall the game was made by a bunch of University students that I can’t help but feel aren’t too dis-similar to myself, and at the end of the day, £6.49 for me is nothing, but that could make the world of difference to the team over at Pixelopus.…
Weekly Gaming: Year Walk (iOS)
Having had Year Walk on my iPad for over a year, I decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about with this adventure/puzzle game many were saying was both revolutionary for the iPad/iPhone, but also scary as fuck. You start the game out like most indie titles and games nowadays – without no context on where you are, what you’re doing, and what you should be doing. This turns out (as I’ve said many times before) to be an extremely successful method in getting users entranced and involved with your game, with players touching the screen and experimenting with the game, causing them to in turn become more hooked as they play on. Year Walk is no different, and since it’s also a puzzle game you’ll be needing your notepad ready, as anything you come across in the game could be classed as a clue to…
Weekly Gaming: Surge Deluxe (PS Vita)
With Twixel in full charge wanting to be released relatively soon, I haven’t had much time to play games, other than the occasional half an hour here and there on Titanfall after a programming and game design session. This week, I really didn’t want to stop my 80+ week streak, so decided to quickly grab ahold of the game Surge Deluxe for the PS Vita and play it whenever I got a spare minute at work and at home. Surge Deluxe is a puzzle game, one in which you must get rid of as many cubes of the screen as possible by linking them together using the touchscreen to create combos and clear the stage. Whilst you’re doing this, you have two “pressure” meters which must be relieved by clearing blocks at the sides of the stage and releasing valves, whilst also trying to clear the whole level before the timer…
Weekly Gaming: Sniper Elite 3 (PC)
Hi all, For this week, I managed to get a review copy of Sniper Elite 3 from Rebellion Studios, and so proceeded to review the hell out of it! The review can be found below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91805/sniper-elite-3-pc As for my game, well I’m now working on some posters, and in the next week I’ll be beta testing it with some friends, family and strangers at some events, so here’s to hoping I can get some constructive criticism and expand on it before I decide to take the plunge and release the game. That’s all for this week though, Dan
Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea DLC Part 2 (SPOILERS ALERT!)
Following on from my Burial at Sea review last week, I decided to play through the entirety of the second piece of DLC due to the fact I’ve purchased it all well after their original release date (The advantages of Steams summer sale and late purchases you see). Please be warned, this review will contain spoilers, so if you have yet to play the DLC or are planning on purchasing it and don’t want the plot points spoiled, look away for now and come back next week. So the game starts off with you playing as Elizabeth, walking around the beautifully created Paris talking and meeting different passers-by as you explore the streets. Eventually, you chase Emily, the main girl Booker was chasing in part 1 of the DLC, and finally wake up to find yourself looking into your dead fathers eyes. Looking up, you find a group of gang…
Weekly Gaming: Infinity Runner (PC)
Hi all, For this weeks review, I managed to get a copy of Wales interactive’s Infinity Runner, a game all about running as fast as possible through a spaceship whilst also transforming into a werewolf and killing guards. If you want to read it, take a look at the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91789/infinity-runner-pc My game is also coming along nicely, with a new tutorial level for the first time you boot the game up, along with the 360 controller now working 100% across the whole game. Lots still needs to be done, but it’s getting there, slowly but surely. Until next week, Dan