AVOIDAL / You MIGHT Get Nervous
So both these games have two things in common. One: uppercase letters. Two: a finely-balanced sense of how to test your hand-eye coordination to breaking …
26 Aug
Treadmillasaurus Rex
Treadmillasaurus Rex
John Cooney – aka jmtb02 – can do no wrong in my book. He has the strange, wizard-like ability to invent the world’s most laughably …
23 Aug
Dance Dance Dance
Dance Dance Dance
Here’s another Ludum Dare 18 gem – and by the way I’ve played through over 100 entries so far so you don’t have to, and …
16 Aug
The Making Of Star Wars Rogue Squadron – Factor 5
The Making Of Star Wars Rogue Squadron – Factor 5
This one’s from 2001 or 2002. Factor 5 had just unleashed the GameCube’s astonishing-looking Rogue Leader, so it was the ideal time to talk to …
15 Aug
Nudo
Nudo
Thought I was clever, didn’t I, posting a link to this on TIGForums? Then realised the authors themselves had beaten me to it. I’ll get …
14 Aug
Blockage
Blockage
Guilhermo v.S. Heldt’s Blockage is much better than its name. It’s a puzzle game, pure and simple – not flashy, not very long. You guide …
13 Aug
Cassette 50: the interview
Cassette 50: the interview
I’m pretty proud of this one. The authors of Cassette 50 – a notorious collection of primitive, mostly BASIC games advertised in seemingly every single ’80s game magazine, …
11 Aug
Radial Plus
Radial Plus
Something Awful have been running a game development competition, but many of the entrants must have wept tears of pure wasted effort when Radial Plus …
10 Aug
Matthew “Manic Miner” Smith: complete transcript of 2005 interview
Matthew “Manic Miner” Smith: complete transcript of 2005 interview
Matthew Smith, the eccentric creator of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, was ‘missing’ for years. He reappeared in the mid-2000s …
