Tag: Games

Ah yesss… I remember pac man, but it was years after it was released. I may be old, but I’m not that old.

Head over Heels From the files of the underdogs comes the game that really made me happy and frustrated.

I got myself a new phone, It’s really really shiny. It’s a Sony Ericsson V800, which of course means that it’s a vodafone item (I wonder how many company names can I drop in a single post). I have already downloaded one game for it – worms, and will probably download quite a few more. They make for a good diversion on the train into the office, or when I’m just idling. The thing that I’ve a bit of a complaint about is that the games are €5 each, which can add up. I should write a few games myself, or adapt some of the openly available linux games that are sitting around (they’re C, and you really really need to use java for games on the phones for the most compatibility).
It makes for an interesting challenge – could I convert an aspect of pocketcity into a phone-based one, mind you I need to get the damned game past the alpha level. I’ve been so busy in the office over the last year that I’ve not had much time to work on it. I’m getting complaints from developers who would be interested in doing more development on it. I’m not stopping them – hell I’ve given them full read/write CVS access to the source, but since I’ve given them access to it, I’ve not seen one commit to the source. I feel all left out as if I’m the only person working on this.

Well I’m glad that I’ve got to the end of half-life 2. maybe now I won’t be hearing the troubled breathing of combine troops any time it gets quiet.

DHTML Lemmings Another fine waster of time.

Well it’s early in the morning and I feel I’ve made some progress in half life 2, so I may as well get some sleep. Nothing too taxing in the difficulty so far – a few traps a nasty helicopter. I like the way the starting animation for the game is dependent in where you’ve progressed to during the game – if it was static then it wouldn’t be as good.

It’s fun. I can’t believe that one of the mad scientists has a headcrab as a pet Talking about silly. They’ve really taken out all the stops in this one. And in case you’re wondering; No I was not up until 4am playing the damned game.

Half life 2 and it won’t install. It turns out that if you don’t want to install Counterstrike:Source you can’t install half life 2 AAAAAARGH!

We Represent The Lollipop Guild…

Half Life 2 is out tomorrow. I think I’m going to be ill tomorrow 🙂

Ever wonder what it would be like to roll around and collect everything you touched in one massive heap? Well that’s exactly the premise of Namco’s strange action game Katamari Damacy. In it, players assume the role of the Prince of the Cosmos as he undertakes a quest to right the wrongs of his father who accidentally knocked the stars out of the sky. The only way to fix it is to roll around the world and collect as many items as possible in one gigantic clump. Both a single player story mode and two-player battle feature are included for the romp, and gamers will be able to accumulate hundreds of different items of various shapes and sizes.

And for those of you who don’t have PS2’s we’ve got the utterly addictive TUMIKI Fighters