Archive for October, 2009

(xblig) Ninja Guardian sounds like an oxymoron —

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Okay well today’s review is on a game called Ninja Guardian by Phoenix Game Studios.  Attack an evil samurai warlord named… you guessed it “Evil Samurai Warlord”.  Anyways the object is for you to stop him by jumping on platforms and fighting like giant wasps and stuff.  I kid you not!  The unique thing about it is simply that you move from platform to platform.  To attack it’s the A button.  If you want to jump in mid-air it’s the right trigger.  You can also trigger temporary invincibility by the left trigger.  That’s pretty much it.  It makes it rather unique because the goal is simply to get to the top of the level.  The graphics are cute and resemble some sort of Asian paper artwork, although it reminds me of Chinese art rather than Japanese, but I suppose Japanese must have had their art as well so I guess it doesn’t really matter.  In any case I think it’s worth a play just because it’s kind of unique (and frustrating).  In any case if you want to go into why I think it’s worth a play read on.

 

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10 Interesting links.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Advice for aspiring indies by Christopher M. Park of Arcen games creators of AI War.

Pictures of RTSoft’s Mind Wall at the IGF China.

Tim Schafer celebrates 20 years in the games industry with his rejection letters from times past.

The Ludologist explains how you could possibly enjoy games that are considered “bad”.

Non-coding design students make games in Thirion’s workshop, video via tigershungry.

Undercroft a new dungeon crawl / rpg for the iphone (and pocket pc).

Slumlord27’s “Obscure Indie Games” video series, part 30, Wriggle by Calsoft.

A video of a single frame of Cliffski’s Gratuitous Space Battles being rendered.

Yet another video, this time a fan made Thundercats Movie trailer.

A story of why devs should think twice about developing for the iPhone by ICombat.

Testing for twitterfeed

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

We had some problems with feedburner. We tried to change the name, and then tried to delete it, and it would still redirect to feedburner. Found out it was a plugin that was set.

Not sure if we want to re-burn the rss feed with feedburner. In any case, we’ve reset up twitter feed to send posts to twitter, and now it seems also facebook.

We will see if this is the case in the next hour or so with this post.

Thanks for bearing with us.