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 [...]

Defender of the Favicon is a (tiny) version of Defender by Mathieu ‘p01′ Henri which is played inside the browsers favicon. For a game in a 16×16 (?) pixel window it’s brilliant ! Defender is my favorite under-rated arcade / Atari 2600 games (or the updated version, Stargate) … it’s nice to see it getting [...]

The Game On exhibition has been on at ACMI in Melbourne (Fed Square) for about 4 months now. A few months ago, I was lucky enough to exhibit our Atari 2600 collection as part of a collectors event … unfortunately I didn’t get any photos of it in a glass museum case. It was fun [...]

I just discovered “You Have To Burn The Rope” by Kian and Mazapan.se (via scriptedfun). It’s an amusing Flash game, well worth giving 5 mins of your time.

I do my game development on Ubuntu Linux. In case you hadn’t noticed, unlike pretty much every Linux distro, Windows does not come with Python installed by default. For distributing games written in Python on Windows, it’s nice to create a compiled executable version (using py2exe or cx_Freeze, for example) that can unzipped or installed [...]