Ludum Dare #12 entry: The Siege of von Danken Tower

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

This is my (pansapiens) entry for Ludum Dare #12. I had various dramas throughout the 48 hour competition, namely two electricity outages ... this is not the code I spent most of my time on, but I'm actually happy it all worked out the way it did. The game is written using ...

What I’ve been playing: Playstation 2

Monday, August 4th, 2008

So, I bought a PS2, since they are cheap now, and I completely missed that (ongoing) era of gaming history. There is a a short list of highlight games for the PS2 that I want to progressively play my way through. At the moment, I'm playing: God of War - fairly ...

Defender of the Favicon

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Defender of the Favicon is a (tiny) version of Defender by Mathieu 'p01' Henri which is played inside the browsers favicon. For a game in a 16x16 (?) pixel window it's brilliant ! Defender is my favorite under-rated arcade / Atari 2600 games (or the updated version, Stargate) ... it's nice ...

Highlight games at the Game On exhibition

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Game On exhibition has been on at ACMI in Melbourne (Fed Square) for about 4 months now. A few months ago, I was lucky enough to exhibit our Atari 2600 collection as part of a collectors event ... unfortunately I didn't get any photos of it in a glass ...

You Have To Burn The Rope

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I just discovered "You Have To Burn The Rope" by Kian and Mazapan.se (via scriptedfun). It's an amusing Flash game, well worth giving 5 mins of your time.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "You Have To Burn The Rope", url: "http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/05/you-have-to-burn-the-rope/" });