Month: February 2012
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Strange Free Games: Every Day the Same Dream
The theme for this year’s Global Game Jam was an image of an Ouroboros — a snake eating it’s own tail. It’s supposed to be representative of how things in life are commonly cyclic, and as such, many games revolved around this theme. Of course, one short flash game has already beaten them to it:…
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Weekly Game Music: The Impact Site (Pikmin)
There’s a relatively lesser known Nintendo game called Pikmin. Everything about it should have been a blockbuster: Mario series creator and video game legend Shigeru Miyamoto designed the game. Nintendo themselves show-cased the game as a demonstration of their new console, Gamecube’s abilities to handle numerous characters and their AI. Some people argued this was…
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Strange Free Games: Global Game Jam Edition
Alright, here’s a dump of all the games I ended up loving from the Global Game Jam 2012. Going in no particular order… Susie’s Summer Home Yay, my game! It’s a maze where you play as Suzie, attempting to escape her haunted summer house. Best played with no preconception of the game. Largely inspired by…
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Weekly Game Music: like stars (CLANNAD)
A while ago, I’ve mentioned that one of my favorite parts about doing this series is that I discover games I’ve never played before. Here’s one of those games: CLANNAD, a visual novel that became an inspiration for many mangas and animes. One of its trance music, like stars by zts, is a sorrowful but…