So, should I be annoyed or proud that my son has beaten Super Mario Galaxy 2 before me? I watch him fly through the end levels with the ease of a practiced expert. Gliding over obstacles, jumping and careening through danger with no more care or consideration than a buzzing bee floating lazily through a field […]
So, this is pretty awesome. Somebody went and created a Frogger game using real-time data from 5th Avenue in New York City. A webcam tracks the movements of the cars, and a program maps those movements into virtual cars in the game. That. Is. CRAZY. And absolutely fantastic. I would love to play something like […]
Tomorrow is Xenoblade Chronicles day!
Which for most people will result in something resembling the following: Pick up Xenoblade Chronicles Go home and play Xenoblade Chronicles But, unfortunately, for ME at least, the process will actually look something more like this: Pick up Xenoblade Chronicles Work the rest of the day (periodically flipping through the art book, of course) Go […]
Xenoblade Chronicles
I was already seriously excited for this game, and then I read this Siliconera review, and my excitement was compounded by at least double, if not more. I haven’t looked forward to a game this much since…I can’t recall when.Friday cannot come soon enough. I cannot WAIT to play Xenoblade Chronicles
It’s dangerous to go alone!
I mentioned a couple of posts back that I started a new gaming blog. Well, sometime soon after I started the blog, I decided to give it a more permanent home. It’s not that I don’t like Posterous, it’s just that I felt it needed something more. So now, the blog is housed at WordPress […]
New blog!
I know, why do I need another blog? Well, it’s simple. Every now and then I like to talk about video games. And even though this blog is appropriately called “Nerdflood”, I don’t necessarily want it to become a games-centric blog. I want it to be about me and my penchant for nerdiness. Henceforth, all […]
Home cooking with DS homebrew
So, now that I have a DS Lite, what’s next beyond just playing some great games? Homebrew. I’ve already ordered a new microSD card and, based on suggestions and pointers from a known homebrewer on the Colony, I also ordered the R4DS cart from System Gears. Both shipped within the past couple of days, and […]
The Wii and DS games of 2009
So, 2008 wasn’t really the year of the Wii RPG that I had hoped it would be. 2008, as a matter of fact, wasn’t really the year for a whole lot on the Wii of any real substance. I’m not trying to discount everything that showed up on the Little Console that Could™. There were […]
A short lesson in excellent game design
I spent a far larger portion of my lazy Sunday afternoon than I intended to with a little online game called Auditorium. It’s such a wonderful example of definitive, practical game design, that I felt it worthy to dissect. The game is challenging, but not frustrating. Detailed, but not overwhelming. I can’t really describe the […]
World of Goo, de-coagulated
One of my early favorite indie games on the WiiWare channel was Lostwinds, by Frontier. It was a simple concept, with gorgeous artwork, and fluid controls. But the problem was, it was a short adventure. A fleeting experience with very little replayability. World of Goo by 2D Boy has solved that problem, to a certain […]