clusterflock » games http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sam Bosma: Hobgoblin http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/sam-bosma-hobgoblin.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/sam-bosma-hobgoblin.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:10:02 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81609

In my last D&D session a bunch of hobgoblins teleported into a room because someone — I’m not saying who — said that he didn’t want to work as a slave in the necromancer’s tower.

This hobgoblin, additional D&D figures, and more from Sam Bosma.

(Via @wilfreeborn, who says that D&D passed him by, though he remembers a super-secretive group meeting at school.)

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I’ll definitely be purchasing the game, if only to gawp.

(via)

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Amish mullets are all ordnung in the front, rumspringa in the back.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/tweet-of-the-day-114.html/feed 7 Skyrim comes out tomorrow http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/skyrim-comes-out-tomorrow.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/skyrim-comes-out-tomorrow.html#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:31:18 +0000 Andrew Simone http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=77697 So if you are wondering why the radio silence for the next few days, this is it.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/skyrim-comes-out-tomorrow.html/feed 5 Kreayshawn: the Game http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/kreayshawn-the-game.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/kreayshawn-the-game.html#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:17:26 +0000 Andrew Simone http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=76874

Left and right arrow keys to move
Z to jump
X to shoot

E to exit to world map
R to reset the level

Made by Beth Maher

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This is a game in development worth paying attention to.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/to-the-moon.html/feed 0 I think he nailed it http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/i-think-he-nailed-it.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/i-think-he-nailed-it.html#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:16:39 +0000 Joel Bernstein http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=75703

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/i-think-he-nailed-it.html/feed 3 the art of bullshitting http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/09/the-art-of-bullshitting.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/09/the-art-of-bullshitting.html#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:50:57 +0000 Andrew Simone http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=75320 A great story about thinking on your feet:

Twisted Pixel chief creative officer Josh Bear had responded with abounding confidence, if only to mask the truth. Because the fact of the matter, the fact that he and CEO Mike Wilford were all too aware of, as they sat in Redmond, WA Tex-Mex restaurant The Matador, was this: The idea wasn’t “awesome.” It was nonexistent.

The developer had scored a major meeting with Microsoft to pitch a new game developed exclusively with Kinect (then “Project Natal”) in mind. It needed to be big, it needed to be smart and — most pressingly to Wilford and Bear at that exact moment — it needed to exist.

It wasn’t that Wilford and Bear weren’t prepared. It’s just that the original idea they wanted to pitch (one that was actually first conceived for the Wii) wasn’t a good fit for the device, which they only became aware of once they saw it for themselves.

“It was really cool, but it didn’t have the fidelity to do what we wanted, it couldn’t really track finger movements,” Bear said. “I was like ‘Oh shit, we’re going to pitch this whole thing and they’re gonna know that it’s not possible with the hardware.’”

(thanks, Rich)

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