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Random plot/lore question: (spoilers for Halo 3+4, not that I fully followed the plot of either)

So there's this game called VESPER.5. Made for a month-long game jam with the theme of "Ritual" by the guy who did Vertex Dispenser and Zaga-33. VESPER.5 takes place on a top-down square grid. You can move exactly one grid space per day. No more. No less. You can't buy any energy to move faster. One move a day. That's all. It takes at least 100 moves to finish VESPER.5, but to say anything more goes into spoiler territory. I played VESPER.5 for several months. Months. Then my laptop died. I know I can easily cheat and but that's not the point. It won't have the same weight. It won't be my game.

A reminder that IGN still has this sexist garbage as their official corporate site. Not the work of one editor. Not the work of one blogger. Their official corporate site. Corporate culture, rotten to the core.

It's a dating sim for iOS that contains a feature where you can "chat" with the virtual boyfriend. Except the chat engine is like Cleverbot in that it parrots back what other people have said to similar speech, unfiltered. Some more background over at The Border House: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=9633

Holy shit. Just finished episode 5. Great writing. Great acting. Great virtual camera work. Well done all around. @Frenetic Pony - There are *some* puzzles in later episodes, but it's by no means the focus. Most of them make sense, are situated within a logical, physical world. It also helps immensely that the game's design usually only allows you to perform actions or use held items when it's useful to do so (or funny with the remote control + padlock from episode 1). I was a bit worried about pixel hunting after the battery/food (optional?) puzzles from episode 1, but that isn't an issue in later episodes.

A ton of puzzles in Companions of Xanth are like that, based on a horribly sexist series of novels set in a magical world full of puns.

Found this while cleaning up. Swear it's not photoshopped. Goldblum Auto 3 will blow you away.

Went through and perfected every level in 5-6 sittings. Good ramp up of difficulty from one-switch runner to a two-switch game of jumping, flying, wall-jumping and punch, with some crazy masocore bonus hell levels thrown in where you don't need to worry about collecting any doodads. Although those do tend to skew on the long and frustrating side Felt it was mainly a game of memorization, and what few levels I perfected on the first try was more down to luck than getting into a flow like a typical runner. That said, the level design does make sure you do have the chance to see secret paths just before you reach them, by staying on swings, noticing tunnels in the architecture, etc. The ending was also disappointing: Yeah, even for the supported devices. It's quite a large download for them not to support moving to an SD card, and I got some noticeable slowdown on some of the crazier levels.

"[343 Studios] launches the best kind of protest, which is to wave an impressive, throbbing shooter in your face. Trust me, you want this." -- IGN.com

Been running the tumblr Zero Feedback for a few months. It's a gaming blog that only collects freeware games that were posted by the developer on any gaming forum, but didn't receive any comments from that forum. Also made a micro shmup called Gratuitous Profanity for a laugh. The gimmick is that every sound effect has been replaced by the word "fuck," and you're scored based on how many "fucks" you hear. Warning: NSFW language.

Happened to me on Steam as well. Just as I was celebrating the game finally not breaking immersion and spoiling what it considers major decisions, I was hit by a *second* screen of fourth wall metastatistics.

An Army ARG would either end with the puzzle "ymra eht nioj" or with twenty Unfictioners indefinitely detained for hacking into government servers in search of the next clue.

You can also punch them to get them to retreat into their shell, and then use pyrokinesis to light their fuse.

Is the stop motion movie in the bundle worth watching? I haven't heard anyone talking about it.

The horsebag is made of people! People! http://www.superfriendshipclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=554

I was a coder for There Is a Monster at the End of this Game. Looking forward to playing the rest!

Supergiant Games released the sheet music and tabs for that song (and three others) last week for free.

I have a few short, unpolished games in the newest Pirate Kart.

I'm @realnoyb.

Enjoy.

Else { Heart.break() } is an ambitious new game being developed by a team led by Erik Svedäng, the developer of Blueberry Garden.

According to Kickstarter: yes.

The text on the right-hand page is taken from an April, 25 2011 New Yorker article about neuroscientist David Eagleman. Someone alert the Unfiction forums! We have an ARG on our hands! 1986 Edit: The copy on the opposite page is now much more Thumbs appropriate.

Checking xbox.com, the first SE was published by "Xbox LIVE Arcade," while the second SE has LucasArts listed as both developer and publisher. Hooray for special treatment and arbitrary rules. Was the original SE a timed exclusive?

Myspace text'd.