Posts Tagged ‘Freeware’

(wme) Mental Repairs Inc – Another ghost in the machine? – WME

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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Machines that think?  Well that’s what our next game is based on.  It’s called “Mental Repairs, Inc.” by Renzo ThönenMental Repairs, Inc is another adventure game, but made with the Wintermute engine this time.  Mental Repairs, Inc is about someone named Henrik Liaw, a ‘machine psychiatrist’.  What?  A shrink for machines?  You’ve got to be kidding me right?  No, actually, this seems very logical.  In this game in the future all machines have computers (pretty much like today), and the AI is so advanced they now represent human mental processes, in other words virtual minds.  What do we do when humans need debugging, we go see a shrink.  So it’s only natural that machines with advanced AI, need to see psychiatrists to help fix them from the inside.

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Turtle Shepherd – If Babe was about a turtle, it would be this game.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

QUICK NOTE: Apparently Mystic Peanut Entertainment no longer exists, although the game wasn’t that great I think the developer had a good start that is, they completed a game and we all know how hard that is. I’m leaving this post up for posterity but the links have been removed.

Today’s review is going to be my most negative so far.  Most computer games are massive undertakings.  Although you can do it with a single person, it’s better to have more than one.  Even lone-wolf developers outsource some artwork and so forth.  This is why it’s understandable that not every game can be fun, or a hit.  Today’s game is called Turtle Shepherd, by Mystic Peanut Entertainment.  In it you play a turtle named Tuki, who has grown up enough, that he has to get a Job.  And what’s a turtle to do for work?  Why herding sheep of course!  This would be pretty cute if it didn’t have some flaws.  It’s a 3D game in the third person.TurtleShepherdSS01

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See you on the flipside…

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

…Flipside of the divine, that is.  Our next game comes from Erik Svedäng and his team including Daniel Kaplan, Pernilla Akterhall, Björn Öjlert, Markus Nurmimäki, Stefan Hurtig, Johan Gren, Daniel Rydin, Johan Åberg, Petter Mabäcker,  and Andreas Sundin of the University of Skövde in Sweden (I’m assuming Sweden because on his personal about page, it says he was born there) for a 10 week course in 2007.

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