Ex-Defense Secretary, White House Chief of Staff and pharmaceutical boss Donald Rumsfeld has entered the world of mobile app game development. He has been working with a team of developers in the design of a card game called Churchill Solitaire. It turns out it is a rather challenging version played by one of the 20th… Continue reading Churchill Solitaire
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World record arcade gamers
There is a rather interesting documentary style movie about arcade game players who go around trying to get high scores in Donkey Kong and other arcade games. It’s called “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”. The movie was made in 2007 but I had never heard about it until recently. It’s an entertaining film about two guys… Continue reading World record arcade gamers
Fairway Solitaire
What does the card game solitaire have in common with the popular outdoor pastime of golf? At first glance, not a thing. Nevertheless, games developer Big Fish Games has gone ahead and combined the two of them. The result has been a card game app that is amongst the most popular ones in the iOS… Continue reading Fairway Solitaire
Roguelike solitaire
Tony Coles reminisces about solitaire over at Eurogamer, where he compares it to the original 1980’s dungeon crawling game Rogue.
2048 number puzzle game
Gabriele Cirulli published the game 2048 on March 5th, 2014. To play, you use the arrow keys to try and merge tiles with matching numbers into a new tile of their combined value. To win the game, you need to reach the number 2048. Sounds pretty easy right? Well it is to line up and… Continue reading 2048 number puzzle game
Life Goes On
Life Goes On started as a group of strangers who met at a game jam and over the next two years grew to become a clever and engaging puzzle platformer. The death of your character merely paves the way for the next guy as you sacrifice an endless stream of fearless knights into the arsenal… Continue reading Life Goes On
A Dark Room – text-based game to get your imagination running
Awake. Head throbbing. Vision blurry. A Dark Room takes you on a journey that starts small and slowly becomes much, much, more. It’s not an action game with graphics and fancy animations, it’s a seemingly basic storyline with deeper and darker meanings behind it. As you continue to play you uncover more and more mysteries… Continue reading A Dark Room – text-based game to get your imagination running
Papers, Please: The game of immigration
Papers, Please was one of 2013’s surprise indie game successes; Lucas Pope’s attempt at capturing the emotional toll of working as an immigration officer. The challenge is to inspect immigration documents and determine whether they are in order. The game is set in the fictional dystopian nation of Arstotzka in 1982. The border security crossing has… Continue reading Papers, Please: The game of immigration
Is Robot Odyssey really the hardest computer game of all time?
Robot Odyssey – David Auerbach discusses the game that took him thirteen years to finish and which started him on the road to becoming a software engineer. In Robot Odyssey, you played a character who has fallen into the labyrinthine underground city of Robotropolis. You start in the sewers of the city with three programmable robots… Continue reading Is Robot Odyssey really the hardest computer game of all time?