February 2012
12 posts
This is Starting to Get Embarrassing Apple
As you’ve probably heard, a fake Pokémon Yellow app by some dickhead developers named House of Anime launched on the app store and a ton of poor idiots bought it.
It’s annoying to hear story after story of Apple’s app approvers being total wieners about which apps to deny and which apps to let through. For a company pretty heavily concerned with perfection and copyright;...
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Dan Hipp drew this magic.
Toad as Charlton Heston kind of rocks.
- Kyle
via albts
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Good Game Get! Spirits
Sprits is a low-speed puzzle platformer designed by the rad design team, Spaces of Play. The game gets its charm from its great art design, and level design. You control spirits only by clicking up them, making them stay stationary, and transforming them into something that can help other spirits reach the goal. For example, one of your first powers to give to a Spirit is a blowing wind...
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Good Game Get! Dear Esther
Dear Esther is a beautiful first person game in which through slow pacing and player patience; a narrative unfolds before you. The world is incredibly encompassing and heartbreaking and my afternoon became lost in it’s folds.
The environment design in Dear Esther is one of the best I’ve ever seen and I dare say it - it has the most intelligent linearity I’ve seen as well. The...
Happy Valentines Day!
Megacute Fauxman Rockwell illustration by Ryan Lee.
by BTANK, via ALBOTAS
- Kyle
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Simon Parkin's New Under $15 Video Game Magic...
I don’t feel like writing a full blog post, but I will write three faux-quotes to inspire you to check out Hookshot.
“A celebration of what fifteen dollars can still get you in the year twenty twelve.”
“Simon Parkin has become prophetic in his championing of downloadable titles all the while denouncing the importance and life of hand-me-down game pusher...
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Good Senior Photo Get!
There are five very good things happening in this photo.
1. That large GameBoy Advance (Glacier variant) looks really comfy to sit on.
2. His GameCube shirt is legitimately rad.
3. I can’t tell if he is holding a Wave Bird wireless GCN controller or a smaller GameBoy Advance. Either way it’s video game related I’m sure. Awesome.
4. He clearly has pretty hefty GameBoy...
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Good Game Get! Realistic Summer Sports Simulator
Justin Smith has done it again.
First he created the most accurate virtual representation of bear hibernation that even puts naturalist, David Attenborough and his wonderful voice to shame. After that he took on the incredibly daunting task of giving the historically correct account of The Oregon Trail a chance. He has thrice succeeded in his goal of complete realism and has created the...
Have a good weekend everyone!
- Kyle
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Good Game Get! MIRRORMOON
Santa Ragione’s Global Game Jam game, MIRRORMOON uses my favorite graphical aesthetic ever - which consists of low-polygonal shapes and bright colors.
Perfect.
It’s a short title that could immaturely be described as first person puzzler. While it has it’s puzzle mechanics, it felt like nothing I’ve played before. I consistently was quietly talking to myself in little...
THE MINIMALIST ZELDA: WHAT FUMITO UEDA DID THAT...
One cannot deny the influence of all of Nintendo’s original franchises on gaming. It’s very clear that a game like Fumito Ueda and Team ICO’s Shadow of the Colossus would not exist. The commonalities between Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus are apparent but end very quickly at the basics.
Shadow of the Colossus if described simply to someone would be, “a game in which...
I’m back and the Maré Odomo print situation has been resolved. Apologies to those who have waited too long for them.
- Kyle
illustration.
Special thanks to Kish for the tip.