Showing posts with label consoles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consoles. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

Review: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1

This XBox 360 Live Arcade game, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is my definition of a realy simple yet fun game.



From the title of this game (which is almost the only lyrics of the soundtrack), I think you realise what the creator of this game is implying. Games with zombies are the current fad. So yet another zombie game to join the ranks of Left 4 Dead, Plants vs. Zombies, Killing Floor, Burn, Zombie Burn!, etc

And killing wave after wave of zombies really does feel good. This game is the pure essense of it.

FYI, It's going for just 80 points (or about a dollar).

Friday, June 19, 2009

Consoles Overrun By Motion Controllers at E3

Now that the dust has settled after E3, I like to mention about what caught my attention the most.

The solid sales from Nintendo of their Wii which targeted the casual, non-gamer with their motion controller has resulted in the other two consoles (Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3) announcing plans for their own motion controllers.

Microsoft's Project Natal seems the most genre changing as it makes people the controller. Its' facial and voice recognition is also something that will likely become expected not only in game consoles, but likely most electronic devices (e.g. changing your air conditioner's temperature to suit who is in the room, blocking mature-rated TV shows when kids are around, etc). Let's hope the cost is reasonable.



Nowadays it is even easier that ever for an indie game company to make a console game. With freely available development kits and publishing platforms (of either the Xbox Live Marketplace or PlayStation Store), making a console game has never been easier.

Time to start dreaming of making games that make use of motion control.