The 48h game jam Ludum Dare celebrates its 10th anniversary! And the party is huge – about 1400 games where made within 48 hours (competition) or three days (jam). I try to give you a start with the games I really enjoyed. They are presented in no specific order and if you think I forgot some of the hidden pearls [...]
Why I don’t like “Skyrim”, but spent 65 hours in there. Although it seems that everybody has enormous fun with this game, here is my polemic opinion about Skyrim. Skyrim. Schmyrim. After all those minigames, facebooktimekillers and iPhone apps I played the last months occasionally because of lack of time, I longed for a real game. We finished TUMBLOX and [...]
John Carmack dürfte den meisten ein Begriff sein, wenn es um die zahlreichen revolutionären Engines geht, die ihrer Zeit stets voraus waren: Commander Keen, Doom, Quake – inzwischen steht idSoftware mit Rage bereits bei Version 5 der id Tech Engine. Die Prämisse lautet höher, schneller, weiter, größer – ein Ende der Detaildarstellung und technischen Finessen scheint längst nicht in Sicht. [...]