Tag Archive: games

Mar 16

Fling

The ipad an iPhone have largely replaced consoles for me as a primary gaming platform. The one knock on them is the lack of physical controls. But that has changed.

I saw this really neat gadget at MacWorld called Fling that gives ipad gamers a physical analog thumb stick. Or two, if you prefer. It is a little plastic doohickey that sticks to the ipad with suction cups and has a capacitive touch device mounted inside a flexible center. It looks flimsy as hell, and may well break easily, but I got one and mounted it on my ipad this week.

I love it.

It makes games like Star Battalion, Galaxy on Fire and Speedball soooo much easier to control. The gizmo obscures some of the screen, but it is totally worth it to get that precision game control.

I will be trying it on Rage HD next.

Aug 27

Dice Games

I have developed a sudden interest in dice games. Not craps. Things like Dungeon Dice, Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice.

I don’t know why. I have sudden spurts of interest in things. I once developed an interest in Goth Dolls. Thankfully that one didn’t last long.

So while having all kinds of dice games rattling around in my head, I spent a sleepless night pondering things I could do nothing about. In an attempt to distract myself, I came up with a set of rules for a dice game. I got about 80% of the way there while lying in bed staring at the ceiling, wishing I was asleep.

Over the next two days I have come pretty close to perfecting the rules. The game uses standard polyhedral dice (a set of dice with more than six sides for you non D&D literate types.) It has a leveling system, character classes, a quest system, and a player vs. player system.

I’ve only play tested in a little bit, but the two people I’ve played with have both said it’s a challenging strategy game. That’s good, btw.

I still need to do some more perfecting, but another week or two and I may have a full on game I developed. Still haven’t come up with a name though.

Feb 24

Me at SDCC 08 talking Grimm

I just got forwarded this video of me from last year’s SDCC. We were at the Grimm launch party and I was interviewed by PopCultureZoo. 

If you haven’t already played Grimm, it is starting series 3 now. Go to GameTap and try it out.