Tag: game
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Cheating Hangman
Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.
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Twee2 - Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a piece of software, and reacted by reimplementing that software from scratch. Twee2 is his attempt to make it possible for people to write Twine 2-style interactive fiction from a command-line interface.
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Post-It Minesweeper
Dan implements a computer program to help him make a Post-It-based version of a computer program. Then sticks it to a computer.
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The Hardest Hangman
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find out for sure.
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Movie Title Mash-Ups
Dan and Ruth spend the greatest part of an evening playing "Movie Title Mash-Up", the second-silliest social game to come out of TV show Cougar Town.
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Counterfeit Monkey
Earlier this year, Dan played Emily Short's latest interactive fiction game, Counterfeit Monkey, and decided that it was among the best games of its type that he's played in years. You should play it, too.
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Fetch Quest
Dan muses on the nature of the "fetch quest" in video game RPGs, and how we as a culture may be shaped by them to such a point that they will one day become acceptable in the real world, not just on computer screens. And he plans to take advantage of that fact, when the day comes.
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Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part Two
Following up on his previous video games post, Dan finishes reviewing a handful of the games he's been playing this month.
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Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part One
Having finally found some free time in his life, Dan plays Skrim (completing it in about 85 hours) and Modern Warfare 3 (completing it in just 6). Don't try to do a value-for-money comparison on that.
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The Board Games Are Breeding
While taking a break from coding to pack boxes in anticipation of the Earthlings' upcoming house move, Dan realises that his board games must be breeding.
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Ruth & JTA's Stag/Hen Party Weekend, Part I
With their wedding just around the corner, Ruth and JTA had a combined stag/hen party weekend, a couple of weeks back (yes, I know it's taken me a while to blog about it. Here's some of the highlights. As usual, click pictures for bigger versions.
Friday
Jordans
Most of the party was to take … -
Civilization V Release Day
For those of you in the USA, at least, today is the release day for the much-anticipated Sid Meier's Civilization V. With the promise that this will be the most groundbreaking Civ game since Civilization II, I've managed to acquire a leaked screenshot of the very first thing that players will see when they launch …
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Troma Night Adventure
Because I promised you some Aber-nostalgia.
Do you remember the RockMonkey Wiki? Many years ago, Ruth bought the domain name rockmonkey.org.uk as a gift for Andy K, who'd been nicknamed "Rock Monkey" for longer than anybody could remember. He decided that what he wanted to host there was a wiki engine, and I helped him get … -
BiCon: The Game
I shan't be at BiCon this year, but I thought I'd share with you all something that tickled me today. Last year, at a Naked Lunch, I ended up chatting to several geeks about Interactive Fiction, and I through out a few ideas for a BiCon-themed piece of Interactive Fiction. Little did I know that …
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Jimmy, Start Your Engine
Here's a photo I took this afternoon especially for Jimmy:
It's a pity he won't be around this weekend to make the most of this exciting new addition to our irregular weekly Power Grid face-off.