Tag: games
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What's Wrong With Monopoly?
Monopoly enjoys cult status and a massive following the world over, yet it's one of the worst imaginable board games. In a long-promised blog post, Dan explains why he hates the world's most-popular game.
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Non-transitive Games
Dan learns about non-transitive games, writes a program to calculate the probabilities of winning a non-transitive dice game, and gives you a non-transitive coin game to play for yourself!
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My first thoughts on Outside.
I've been playing for a little while now, and here's my thoughts so far:
I love the open world aspects of the game; I've never played anything where there's been quite so much freedom (especially when you're just starting out). It's taken a while to get used to the areas which are only … -
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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Edinburgh 2012 - Day Four
Dan, Ruth and JTA trek out to Leith and get very wet. And play disappointing board games. But they do get some good beer and delicious food.
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Three Parties
After three consecutive weekends of parties, it's no wonder than Dan's so tired. Andy's birthday, Earth's Summer Party, and a wedding.
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Bee
Dan finally finds time to play Emily Short's new Varytale work, "Bee", and has some heartwarming things to say about this most-unusual game.
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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 Play
Dan posts a short review and recommendation of "The Play", a piece of hypertext interactive fiction entered into IFComp 2011.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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Spirit of the Century
Dan and the other Earthlings play "Spirit of the Century", a roleplaying game set in the style of the pulp novels of the early 20th century.
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Apples To Alternative Vote
The Earthlings invent a new and topical variant on board game Apples To Apples, to commemorate the upcoming Alternative Vote referendum.
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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.