Twitter is blogging for the lazy.
- Maniac Mansion in 3D! That's 1 more D than the original! http://bit.ly/93zKRt
- Currently tied at #1 for total Game Center achievements earned.
- I'm grumpygamer on Apple's new Game Center. So far I have zero friends, just like in real life.
- People who order 12 drinks at Starbucks are guilty of line length deception.
- Joystiq preview of good friend Chris Hecker's SpyParty: http://bit.ly/cBbsjK He demo'd it to me for a few weeks ago. Very cool!!!!!
- Mix'n'Mojo gets me drunk on Grog XD: http://bit.ly/cmiE4l
- Is it more proper to say you put a file "in dropbox" or "on dropbox"? I'm a stickler for proper english word usages.
- Limbo is f**king brilliant and you know it's true because I don't use words with *'s in them very often.
- Second biggest Guybrush voodoo doll anyone's ever given me: http://yfrog.com/iz8krsj
- Two things I will never ever use: FaceTime and Ping (unless I'm trying to see if my server is up).
- Back in the Silicon Valley!! Pretty sure our pilot was pitching an internet start-up to the guy in seat 21A. http://yfrog.com/af8a9j
- Coming to LA always feels surreal. I'm pretty sure our pilot was pitching a movie to this guy in seat 12B. http://yfrog.com/9hqqsij
- It's pretty clear to me and other top scientists that the astroids and poised for attack: http://bit.ly/cw6rX3 Be afraid!
- Must read for any adventure game fan: RT @sqorgar You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike: http://bit.ly/bTtfi4
- GameSpot has some wicked cool #deathspank part 2 footage: http://bit.ly/cAerTf I know what you're thinking: You can't kill Santa!
Latest Comments...
- Massive DeathSpank Review Round-Up.
- I Forgot...
- Game Designer+Artist or Game Designer+Programmer
- Bla Bla Bla
- OMG! Someone Just Won a Copy of DeathSpank!
Massive DeathSpank Review Round-Up.
Enjoy this massive DeathSpank review round-up. And for those of you who don't know your alphabet, these appear in no particular order.
1up
3D Juegos
ABC's Good Game
Aggro Gamer
Ars Technica
Alternative Magazine Online
California Literary Review
Charlton Media
Crispy Gamer
Eurogamer
Fox News Gamers Weekly
Frictionless Insight
Game and Player
Game Cola
Game Focus
Game Pro
Gamer Revolution
Gamercast
GamersGlobal
GamersHell
Games Radar
GameSetWatch
GameSpot
Gammabit
Geek.com
Geek-Span
Giant Bomb
Goplok
Guardian UK
Hrej.cz
IGN
Jeux Video
Kotaku
MeriStation
MiastoGier
MTV
Nu's Views
Now Gamer
Nukezilla
Onion's AV Club
Opinionated Gaming
Perpetual Geek Machine
Playtime
Plaza Otavamedia
PolyGamer
PS3Info.pl
PSN Store
Rejected Gamer
RotoRob
RPGFan
RPGGamer
Square-Go
Today, Tomorrow and Tuesday
Tweakers.net
V Games
Video Gamer
Vandal Online
Wired
Wisegamers
XBLA Ratings
XBoxUser.de
Zero Punctuation
If I've missed any reviews (good or bad or non-english), send me a link.
OMG! Someone Just Won a Copy of DeathSpank!
Wow! That was an overwhelming number of people who wanted a copy of DeathSpank! Many thanks to the hundreds of people that painstakingly read every one of those reviews looking for the quotes and typos and entered the contest.
And now...Congratulations to David Or on his stunning victory!
David's name was chosen randomly using a scientifically proven random number from random.org.
Win a Free Copy of DeathSpank on XBLA!!!
Making games is hard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Long hours deep in the game mines, chiseling nuggets of game design from crusty black walls, sucking in death at every breath. And who does this dangerous work? Games designers like myself? Don't be crazy, we get children and puppies to do that part. I work out of a nice air-conditioned office with an espresso machine.
But in the end, it's not about who lived or died to bring you an awesome game like DeathSpank, so let's not trifle over small details like "laws" and "morality" because much like that delicious tofu you're eating, you don't really want to know where it came from.
Instead, let's enjoy a massive DeathSpank review round-up:
DeathSpank!!!
You didn't think there was actually a game did you? Oh, no, no, all this hype was about re-releasing these two DeathSpank Grumpy Gamer comics.
DeathSpank Coming Nowish.
Is it snowing in Hell? Are pigs flying? Are the Republicans admitting to global warming? No, it's actually the 25th seldom mentioned sign of the apocalypse: DeathSpank is poised to hit PSN, XBLA and [REDACTED] on July 13th, July 14th and [REDACTED] [REDACTED]th.
You've got a few weeks to come up excuses for not showing up to work for a few days. Might I suggest: "Go to hell, I'm staying home to play DeathSpank". Tell'em Ron said it was OK.
So in celebration, please enjoy some early concept art by Clayton Kauzlaric. I'd show you some of my concept art, but then you'd go blind and the healthcare in America sucks.
Game Designer+Artist or Game Designer+Programmer
I'll be honest, I used the + signs in the title because I know they screw up some RSS feed readers and I'm just that kind of person. My next post will have lots of & and ? symbols and then we'll move into utf-32. The Internet is a house of cards ready to come down with one seldom used chinese character.
But onward we march, content in our ignorance...
So, my question is: would you rather be a game designer that is also an artist, or a game designer that is also a programmer?
For the sake of this brain twisting exercise, let's assume that you can't be a game designer+artist+programmer, because that combination just goes against god. And also, for the sake of argument (and because I like to argue), let's assume if you're an artist or programmer, you have no talent in the other profession, and by no talent I really mean no talent.
Big DeathSpank Media Tour Update!
Sorry for this update being late, I've been busy prepping for my possible Supreme Court nomination by re-watching The Wire and then just this morning I wake up and hear that Obama has nominated some "lawyer" to fill the opening. When will this kind of preferential treatment end? It's the legal elite trying to keep the common man from the highest court in the land. What are they so afraid of? DeathSpank maybe?
