Tag Archives: Hardcore Droid
A Design for Boring: The Freemium Model Problems
New piece talking about freemium games on DragonBlogger. Bad freemium frustrates me, although I think games have value, developers should be paid for their craft, and freemium is not automatically evil. After many rounds of editing, and many discussions with … Continue reading
Kara Rokblade
I wrote about QuestLord over at Hardcore Droid. QuestLord, from Eric Kinkead, is an accessible – but not necessarily lite – retro role-playing adventure. The game opens with the sweet RPG classics. Your character is a human, elf or dwarf, … Continue reading
Dungelot: Amazing Dungeon-sweeper
New article on Hardcore Droid, talking about lite roguelike dungeon-crawler Dungelot: Since Dungelot is described as a roguelike, I’d expected the usual endless player deaths, punishing difficulty (especially through bad luck), and a lot of mind-numbingly repetitive replay. The game … Continue reading
Speaking Simlish
I play a lot of games. I also read about games, and think about games, and work on games, and write about games. Sometimes my game development work gets in the way of my games journalism, and my editor at Hardcore … Continue reading
Find The Lamp, The Oil, and The Wick
I wrote about that adventure game with hidden object elements, Dark Arcana, for Hardcore Droid. I enjoyed playing it, and would recommend the game, but couldn’t resist a little snarking at hidden object cliches. In a typical HO game, players … Continue reading
Zenonia Hates Me
New post on Zenonia 5 on Hardcore Droid: Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid. Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming characters, oddly adorable monsters to fight, an epic … Continue reading
Hidden Object Adventures
Harold came in while I was sprawled on the couch, immersed in a new game for a Hardcore Droid review. “Are you playing a hidden object game?” he asked, with a certain amount of shock in his voice. Harold and … Continue reading
Phoenix Wright’s Nemesis
New review of Devil’s Attorney for Android is live on Hardcore Droid: In Senri AB’s Devil’s Attorney, players take on the role of Max McMann, an ethically flexible defense attorney, tasked with keeping his unfortunate and misunderstood clients out of jail. … Continue reading
Knights of Pen & Paper
New review of Knights of Pen & Paper up on Hardcore Droid: Knights of Pen & Paper, from indie Behold Studios, simulates a D&D tabletop campaign, in which players encounter campy tabletop monsters and running dramatic rescues. From the beginning, … Continue reading
