January 2010
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I’ve spent all month enjoying Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on the DS. It’s the most fun I’ve had with a video game in a long time. They’ve managed to find a way to integrate RPG elements with a puzzle game like Puzzle Quest did a few years ago, but their core mechanic doesn’t end up introducing a feeling of unfair competition from the AI— the introduction of new...
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Shut Up And Play This Game: "Choice of a Dragon"
“Shut Up And Play This Game” is a recurring feature here at Warp Skip! The deal: you read the blog post, then you play the game that we link you to. No questions asked. See Casey’s post about “Small Worlds” for a full description.
“Choice of a Dragon” is a short, text-based, choose-your-own-adventure-style hypertext game. You are a dragon. You make...
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Underground ludonomastics
Read now noted scholar and game designer Nick Montfort’s epic post on the etymology of “Zork.” Nick gives a number of possible origins for the word; here’s my favorite:
The letters [on a Belgian keyboard] are laid out just as they are on a French typewriter, in the AZERTY scheme. As you can see, if you’ve learned to type the word “WORK” on a typewriter like this, and someone then...
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Steam News →
From the latest Team Fortress 2 update notes:
Added a “virtual mousepad” concept to rework how bots track enemy players
They now periodically estimate the position and velocity of the enemy they are tracking, instead of “locking on”
After rotating beyond a maximum angle, they will pause for a fraction of a second to re-center their “virtual...
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Memories: SHATTERED!
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is an unusual game for me in several ways. For one thing, it’s the only game I’ve played in recent memory that I ended up more enthusiastic about after I’d finished it than I was before I started playing. I’d always had a vague interest in the series, but never actually played anything more than the beginning of Silent Hill 2, and as far...
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Back of the Cereal Box: Mario's Lost Bytes →
Drew Mackie rounds up some great Mario-related stuff from the fantastic Unseen64. There are some mind-blowing “what if” type scenarios going on for the Mario franchise and its various spinoffs in this blog post. If you like this sort of stuff, I recommend check out Unseen64’s blog for all kinds of leaked information from canceled projects and posts detailing the differences...