Friday 19 December 2008

World of Goo Level Editor


Today's the day. World of Goo is going to be available on the European WiiWare service. I'll buy it as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, I found out that someone called "nitrozark" started a project for a free World of Goo Level Editor. It's available on SourceForge here: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/wogedit
The guys at 2D boy know that, and they gave their blessing to the editor. Hurrah!

Monday 15 December 2008

You can't fool a casual (gamer) thrice


What I mean is... why software houses are trying so hard on the average casual gamer? How long do they think it's gonna last?
If a person that just got close to videogames buys a really bad game, one of those games that swears "Fun for the whole family!", and then turns out to be boredom for the whole family and even the pets, maybe he will try again.
He could buy another bad game, but that's it. There's a company (whose initials are D.D.) who developed a complete series of bad games in a few months, each one similar to all the other ones (although being different genres). How many they think they can sell, after this bad service to the player?
I'm referring of course to Wii and DS situation, I'm sick tired of seeing a bunch of cash-ins every month. If they keep going like this, each casual and potential hardcore player will turn off in disgust from videogames.

You can trick a casual gamer into buying your game once. Maybe you can fool him twice. But you can't fool a casual THRICE.

(actually some get fooled more than ten times... but not all!)

Tuesday 2 December 2008

Fieldrunners

Surely Fieldrunners came a bit ago, it's not new and neither is the concept. But on the iPhone this is the greatest execution of the Tower defence gameplay. As you can see the graphics are really sharp and both towers and troops are fully animated.
The only downside is that, as of now, there's only 2 maps and 4 types of towers, but Subatomic Studios add features with every release, so maybe the situation will get better.

I got really hooked by Fieldrunners, of course it's only tower defense after all, but if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you should give it a try. I think the current price is around 3 dollars...