….which is possibly my favourite game title of all time, but I digress. Every Extend Extra Extreme (or E4 as I’ll now call it) on the Sexbox 360 is good and bad. My favourite game mode is the default, time limited mode. You’re given 3 minutes to get as high a score as possible. You [...]
Bad news. The game crashed, and it deleted a quarter of my beloved castle. Good news! I rebuilt most of it. Bad news. There’s a section of moat which I can’t ever rebuild; every time I try, I reload the game and it’s gone. Good news! Fuck moats. It’s a wall, with a rollercoaster track [...]
Minecraft (the paid-for, survival, proper game version) has several borrowed mechanisms at its core. There’s the resource gathering and management, which is in every game ever (although the implementation is probably closest to RTS games like Command & Conquer, Dune II, Warcraft 1 & 2 etc). Construction is taken from Lego (I’m sure there’s other [...]
I forgot to post this! Je suis une idiote. http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?ip=87.254.83.149&port=25565 That be my server. It isn’t on all the time, but I’ll be on there when it is running. From now on. Woot! This is also a reminder for me to see what Tom wrote in the water, cos he did amusing stuff last night [...]
Last time round, I said I was going to show you the mining part. One thing about Minecraft – just playing around in it gives you ideas on what to do next. I loaded it up with the intention of doing screenshots of the caves, but then I thought that my house was looking a [...]
I was going to do a big thing on Minecraft, about how it’s definitely a game, but it also encourages creativity within the game space like nothing I’ve ever seen, and I was going to add all sorts of buzz words that I would make up to sound like I know what I’m talking about [...]
“Well, the healer is tanking, the tank is doing DPS, the other healer isn’t actually healing anyone and we’re all fucking dead”