Weekly Gaming: 4PM (PC)
Hi all, So another week has come and gone, and yet again I have another review for you over at GamrReview.com. You can read it at the following address: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91773/4pm-pc A few updates about my game. I’m currently in talks with a fantastic artist who I’ve met at a few conventions now for a really good soundtrack. I should have more details soon, but either way I’m extremely excited. This week I’ll be reconfiguring the collision detection system, as it seems I have a few bugs to work out (like the fact the cube moves BEFORE the collision detection system says it can or not). I’ll be cracking on with that all weekend, so hopefully by this time next week my game should finally feel how it will in the end. I’m also hoping within the next two weeks to make a tutorial level for the first time you ever…
Weekly Gaming: Luftrausers
I bought Luftrausers months ago for my Playstation Vita in a sale, as it always intrigued me after having played it at the Eurogamer Expo last year. I don’t usually get on with Bullet Hell games, as my precision isn’t as good as it should be, but Lufrausers intrigued me due to its accessibility and stylish graphics. Needless to say, I’m glad I bought it, as Luftrausers is one of the best small games I’ve played in a while. Some may have their fill of the game within a few minutes, but I’ve played this little game for well over 8 hours, and don’t feel like stopping anytime soon. The game starts out with a tiny cinematic giving a little context on the situation of Luftrausers (and by tiny, I really do mean tiny, its like 5 seconds long). Basically, crazy scientists have managed to create some ultimate ships that…
Weekly Gaming: Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea DLC Part 1
Bioshock Infinite was one of my favourite games of last year, given its fantastic story and fairly unique setting. Ken Levine is a genius when it comes to setting up these lavish cities, where your imagination becomes a reality, and so it was a welcome piece of news that the first true piece of DLC for Infinite would take place in Rapture, a place we all find so dear considering how much Bioshock imprinted on gaming culture forever. The problem is, as much as rapture is so loved, Infinite opened the doors to the Bioshock potentially going anywhere, much like assassins creed 1 opened the door for the series to go to any culture in history and stake its mark, Infinite was full of potential, so its a shame that they decided to squander this potential by returning to an already visited location. The game starts out with you taking…
Weekly Gaming: Monument Valley (Android)
Having recently switched from a iPhone to an android device with a lovely 5.2inch screen, I wanted a game to push those pixels and play out and about. I didn’t have to go far to find a game that intrigued, with bytwo’s Monument Valley being a featured app in the Google Play store. At the cheap price of £2.49, I decided to take the plunge, I mean, from the looks of the game alone it was worth giving the developer £2.49 of my hard earned cash. The game starts you off like many tropes in video games these days by giving you no context about the environment you’re dropped into. This may be because it allows you the player to explore and realise the world as you progress, engrossing you more into the story and the world itself. You play as a white girl that must explore a seemingly puzzle…
Weekly Gaming: Tropico 5 (PC)
Hi all! This week, I take a look at Tropico 5 for PC, a game series I’ve always been interested in, but never taken the plunge into. To read this weeks review, click the link below, where I’ve done it on behalf of GamrReview.com: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91643/tropico-5-pc I’ve also been updating my game Twixel more so than usual, with 5 new obstacles, a whole new level, and a collision detection system that now actually works! If you wanna give it a go, click the link below: Twixel As always, stay cool peoples, and by all means get in touch! Dan
Weekly Gaming: Concursion
Hi all, Once again, I’ve managed to write a review for gamrReview.com. This week, it’s on the indie game Concursion that I saw back at EGX rezzed back in March. The review can be found below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91558/concursion-pc I’ve also been putting in more time and effort into my game, so please, clink the link below to give it a go: Twixel As always, thank you for reading, Dan.
Weekly Gaming: Among the Sleep (PC)
Hi all! As I said last week, I’ve been making a few reviews over at GamrReview.com, so this weeks latest is Among the Sleep, which I Kickstarted a while ago. The game was alright, but failed to capitalise on such a unique and brilliant concept due to it’s length and depth. The review can be read at: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91533/among-the-sleep-pc Hope you enjoy it! Dan p.s. I’ll be putting up a few posts about my game in the coming weeks, here’s to hoping I can get it finished soon!
Weekly Gaming: Transistor (PC)
Hi all, So for the previous two weeks I was actually on holiday travelling the length of my little country: the UK. Unfortunately, this left me little time to work on anything at all, so coming off of holiday I was able to work on getting through Transistor for the PC. The review has been edited, and is currently up over at GamrReview.com, so if you fancy taking a look, click the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91524/transistor-pc I’ll be doing this for the following weeks as I have quite a few games that I need to review for that site, from Among the Sleep, to Tropico 5. Rest assured that I’ll be back to my usual Friday, 10am posts before long, but for now, I’ll have to consolidate my reviews over there. Thanks for your support, Dan
Weekly Gaming: Octodad: Dadliest Catch (PC)
When Octodad was announced and shown off around the time of the PS4 announcements, I couldn’t have been more excited at the chance to play it. Here was a platform holder like Sony, bowing their head to an indie studio, and making way for a company that wouldn’t have been given the time of day 5 years ago. The Game looked goofy, fun, and all around a brilliantly unique game that I couldn’t wait to play for all of its ideals. Octodad was unfortunately delayed for the PS4, and as I haven’t got around to buying a PS4 just yet (my PC is more powerful than both the PS4 and Xbox One, and there just hasn’t been unique games yet) I decided to get the game on my PC. Did Octodad live up to my huge expectations? or was I just living a dream as to whats possible with indie…
Weekly Gaming: Unpossible (iOS, Android)
Given the nature of the game I’m currently developing, I decided it was time to delve into the mobile app market to see what competition is in the market, and what innovative/original ideas were out there. Whilst browsing, I came across a nifty little app that I liked the trailer of called Unpossible, an obstacle avoider game, similar to my own, which had a unique sound track and slightly different course structure in that you’re on a never ending tube that generates obstacles on the outside. Usually, tubing games stick you on the inside, so this definitely made the game stick out for me. The game starts you off on a tube where you’re constantly moving forwards, throwing obstacles at you which you need to avoid by strafing left and right around the tube. You’re stuck to the outside, so you don’t have much room to navigate, but it’s enough…
Weekly Gaming: Hearthstone, Heroes of Warcraft (PC, iPad)
Given my love of Magic: The Gathering, I was surprised I didn’t happen upon Hearthstone sooner. The Free to Play World of Warcraft card game seems to be an exact replica of Magic, but at the same time adds its own uniqueness to the formula. With its recent release on the iPad, I decided to give the game a go, firstly for the amount podcasts have been talking about it, and secondly as its free and I needed an excuse to use my iPad. The game starts out by slowly introducing you to the games mechanics via some tutorial matches which will make you actively partake in the game before setting off and versing other players. Here, you’ll learn that every turn you take gives you 1 more mana than the last which you can use to summon minions or cast spells. The objective of the match is to…
Weekly Gaming: Rayman Legends (PS Vita)
Having loved Rayman Origins for its fantastic platforming, I couldn’t wait to get a hold of the latest game in the series, Rayman Legends. Screenshots and trailers made me even more jealous of the games Wii U exclusivity, until one day Ubisoft announced that they would be releasing the game on all platforms simultaneously across all systems. I decided to purchase the game on PS Vita, for the sheer sake of portability and for having a game to play on the system. The game starts out with Rayman and his pals asleep in the forest, whilst the world is being taken over and destroyed by a bunch of dragons and pirates. A green ‘fly’ comes to the rescue by waking Rayman and co, and telling them the world needs saving. The first levels sets you up and gets you used to the basics of the mechanics all over again (being…
Weekly Gaming: OlliOlli (PS Vita)
I’ve been reading up on OlliOlli since I first saw an announcement a while back on engadget. It seemed like an interesting concept, one which I even toyed with whilst at university (my idea was to play the game on a touch screen and use one finger swiping down the screen and the other up to mimic the motion of an ollie). My game however, never came to fruition, and here we have OlliOlli on the market as a fantastically intricate skateboarding platformer. The game centres around controlling your character as he makes his way across each small level, trying to amass as many points as possible along the way. You control the character by pressing the X button to push, and olli/do a trick by moving the analogue stick in a specific direction. The hard part comes in landing your trick, by which I mean you have to press…
Weekly Gaming – The Typing of The Dead: Overkill (PC)
As a Kid, I used to beg my dad to go on his PC and play some of the games I watched him play. I recall loving the look of The Typing of the Dead as it was a game that I remembered from arcades at the seaside, and wanted to revel in this myself. Being only 13/14 at the time, I wasn’t very good at typing, and had to look at my keyboard every time a new word appeared on the screen so I could find the appropriate keys and press them. I was terrible, but it was still fun to play the game that I played in the arcades, albeit with a different control method. Does the new, “improved” Typing of the Dead live up to my expectations from yesteryear? Read on my friends. Being that the original Typing of the Dead was just a rehash of The…
Weekly Gaming: Titanfall (PC)
Given the amount of hype TitanFall has received since its debut at E3 last year, I had to give the game a go on release day to see what all the fuss was about. Without thinking, I slammed £25 into the Origin edition from CDKeys.com and preloaded it onto my machine days before launch. With a download size of 50GB, and a host of games sites going crazy for its imminent release, I hoped the money was worth it. After 42 hours of game time later, I suppose I can say that I have a few opinions on the game, and whether you should purchase it or not. First up: TitanFall is a multiplayer only game, and although it comes with a campaign mode, it’s little, if anything worth mentioning. Upon starting Titanfall, you’re greeted with a main menu which has very few options. Pressing start brings you to…