Cave Story (available for Linux in at archive.org) — I missed this one when it came out (~2004), but over the last few days I saw a few little indirect references to it, I had to check it out. It’s a charming little platformer, with a decent mix of action and story. I hear there [...]

So, here’s my LD48 #13 entry. It’s a very simple little Frogger clone, “ported” to a bunch of platforms by the power of Java + Processing + Mobile Processing. Bad Ass Frog Escapes from LA The Hollywood-script-worthy Backstory The year is 2010. You are the last Frog in LA. Your name is Kurt Russell, but [...]

Tipped off by dtx on #ludumdare, I discovered Sumotori Dreams, an 87 kilobyte game written by Peter Sotesz for the Breakpoint 2007 competition. It’s essentially sumo wresting meets physics simulation meets Funniest Home Videos. Runs nicely under Wine (0.9.12) on Linux too. Here’s a video: [youtube BgBuIJsjpuM] That’s some freaky, freaky drunken AI.

Cursor*10 … some very smart design.

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 easy on the default [...]