Tag Archives: games
Rebuild
Al Jackson, the editor at the new Android gaming site Hardcore Droid, assigned me a review of “Rebuild”, an indie game about the zombie apocalypse. I’m not really a zombie fangirl, but I found a lot to like in this … Continue reading
Down The Coast In Seventeen Hours
This weekend, Harold and I loaded a uHaul with his boxes of comics, boxes of books, more boxes of comics, and maybe some clothes and a couple pieces of furniture, and started driving south from Brooklyn to Chapel Hill. Harold’s … Continue reading
Achievement Unlocked: Gameification Class
After asking Grant if he got an achievement for the gameification class he was taking, I looked into it and signed up for this gameification class on Coursera too. This was my first Coursera class, and I discovered that it … Continue reading
The Lasting Value of Educational Games
Harold and I arrive in Kansas City, where recent heavy rains have closed one of the main roads. Harold mumbles something about the highway being practically the Missouri River, after several days of rain. “Should we try to ford the … Continue reading
Foam Swords, Game Players, and Barbecue
Eric holds an end-of-summer barbecue called MeatFest, although that’s more and more inaccurately named every year. It’s still festive, I mean, but now that the group is not so much a mob of starving 20-year-old guys, there’s less meat and … Continue reading
Youda Survivor
Youda Survivor is a time-management adventure from G5 Entertainment. The story begins, as all good island survival games do, with the player washing up on the shore of a tropical island. An ancient prophesy tells the tribe of the arrival … Continue reading
Casual Connect Highlights
One of my first Casual Connect meetings was with a developer who talked about writing up docs, several years ago, of an interactive gameworld made up of cubes, like cubic water and cubic plants and cubic minerals. Players would collect … Continue reading
Winston, The Facebook Butler
Yesterday at Dreamit day, when Winston was described as an audio assistant to present stories from social networks like Facebook, I picked up my phone to play games until the presentation was over. I could not have been less interested. … Continue reading
