Identity Theft:
Waste Management:
I’ll have a few words on today’s movie… later! 
It’s been nearly a year since Finnish casual games student/genius Petri Purho brought the amazingly simple experimental game Crayon Physics to the world, and ever since then we’ve been hungry for more. He reportedly has been working on a more highly-polished version called Crayon Physics Deluxe (see my previous post for more info and video,) but apparently one gentleman (programmer Alejandro Guillen) got a little tired of waiting…
His take on the concept is a little flash game called Magic Pen. It features roughly the same type of gameplay (as well as some of the levels lifted directly from Purho’s game,) with a more highly-polished interface, and some of the ideas last spotted in the C.P.D. video brought to fruition (pivots, other shapes, etc.) through over two dozen levels.
It’s unclear what the intellectual property ramifications are of these two very similar games being brought into existence. I’m still looking forward to C.P.D., and I hope that our Finnish friend delivers on it SOON. In the meantime, I can’t wait to really dig into this game. My wife already has like a 10-level headstart…
*Many thanks go out to the lovely and talented Juannah who brought this to my attention. She has a great blog, which YOU should go check out.
Game Jew… I think I love you, man…
Read about this little beauty HERE (click). Then buy me one out of the sheer goodness of your heart, kthxbb.
Some thoughts from my recent playthrough of Half-Life 2 (still in progress):
– I hate fast zombies. More than headcrabs, manhacks, and antlions put together.
– I wish I had a gravity gun. Since they don’t exist (yet,) I’d settle for a laser-guided RPG. How about it, Santa?
– I know a few kids who would stay in line if I had some antlion pheropods. Mwa, ha, haa…
– BUDDHA is my friend.
– This is an absolutely amazing game. Still. The SOURCE engine continues to amaze me with its balance of realism and performance. The level design, art design, animation, sound design, scripting, and pretty much everything else combine to make this game the gold-standard which ALL adventure-FPS games should aspire to. And it still threatens to empty my bladder/bowels from time to time.
More later. Still have a few more levels to play through. Right now I’m having trouble figuring out the best places to put my sentry guns to keep the Combine from storming my cell block and pwning my arse…
This is a game that was mentioned on the ScrewAttack.com forum. It lets you draw shapes with your mouse which then behave like real-world objects. You can get it from this page (click), or you can direct download it here (click).
There is no installer. Just unzip the folder to pretty much anywhere (your desktop works great,) and double click on the “crayon” file in the folder to play.
This video shows the next step that the software will take: Crayon Physics Deluxe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI
I can’t wait until THIS one comes out. I’d pay good money for it.
A guy at the ScrewAttack.com forum alerted me to this site:
No gimmicks. All you have to do is download and install the day’s game within a 24-hour period that they determine, and BOOM, free video games.
There is no such thing as useless knowledge.
Last night I found myself downloading two free games: Half-Life 2 and H-L 2, Episode 1. I got them by writing a haiku:
“Jolly Roger” by johnseeking
buy the game again
black box isn’t coming out
corporate piracy
Yeah, it’s not that good. But apparently, not enough people at the forum where I posted it either cared to win the prize, OR not enough people felt like they knew enough about haiku to write one. Good lord… it’s haiku, for pete’s sake. Anybody can do it.
I once had a haiku duel with a student. We filled an entire whiteboard with smack-talk in the form of haiku. I claimed victory, because the lad finally added one too many syllables in his last entry.
Knowledge IS power, kids. And by “power,” I mean it can net you lots of swag.
Woo-hoo.
(I once found a web page filled with haiku about CornNuts, no lie. Amazing. Can’t find it now, though. Sad day.)
