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Little Big Adventure on GoG. And it's not even April 1st. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/little_big_adventure

Gone are the days of the booming caterpillar market on the auction house. It costs either ~120 energy or 400 credits to get a butterfly egg. When less people knew animal husbandry, caterpillars could go for up to 800 credits. They've dropped down to under 500. Barely a profit in terms of credits or energy. Now I don't know how to efficiently make money anymore. #firstworldproblems I also don't know what's best to donate to shrines. Been doing caterpillars, too, but they've been giving around 70 favor points per donation, which has been a bit of a grind. Edit: Shops give more money for caterpillars than players. Interesting. Guess there's a large contingent of players who undervalue their time and intentionally lowball prices on the auction house just to get their goods sold.

Yeah. I'm not sure what DRM Big Fish games uses. From what I remember, they constantly try to upsell you to a monthly subscription. And sell a bunch of Diner Dash clones.

If it's aimed at kids, then why is there a quest that asks you to chug a twelve-pack of beer? Someone alert Fox News!

Good review over at RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/04/review-glitch/ That's good as in making valid points about the grind, not good as in glowing with praise. I'm surprised they didn't mention that in the bureaucracy quest

Finished Ikaruga. On easy. With 5 or 6 continues. Like two years after I bought it on XBLA.

Adding Mac support, achievements, cloud saves, and apparently toning down the difficulty of Meat Circus.

Is Cheese Yonts one of us? Edit: Damnit, this is sucking me in. Starting to remind me of the time I had to quit cold turkey and forcibly stop myself from playing WoW just two weeks into a free trial.

The Broken Sword 1 remake is free for the next few days for all Good Old Games members: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/broken_sword_directors_cut/

I'm Sir Troggle.

Okay, so it's more of a "reshape the world" deal. Cool. Started playing again. Found my stats reset, but with a nifty weird beta-tester only item in my inventory. Fooled around with it and started . Neat! I must have been in a bad mood when I first played it, because this feels really charming. Seems like a lot more thought has been put into making this an actual game, rather than a psychological trap.

Amazon is still giving away free apps daily in the US App store. FWIW, some mobile developers have been pointing out some developer-unfriendly terms in Amazon's Free App practices: https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/ Some of the games I've been playing lately include: Ancient Frog - puzzle game based around moving a frog limb-by-limb on a leaf, constrained by how its limbs can naturally rotate. Lovely graphics. BlooKid - Solid single screen platformer. Phone Story - Interesting conceptually: a mobile game that exposes inhumane treatment of workers involved in the manufacturing process of mobile phones. Very short and no replay value, so it's not particularly worth buying unless you support the cause or Molleindustria. Shortyz - Good collection of daily crossword puzzles.

The tank was awful in Gears 2, especially when crossing that iced-over lake. So much trial and error. I plummeted to my death many times after naturally stopping safely next to an edge, but forgetting the tank had no way of backing up cleanly.

Played for an hour or so. Didn't really grab my interest, although I'm not a huge fan of MMOs/social games. Neat art style, it's just that everything seemed rather ordinary gameplay-wise: do quests, develop skills, buy stuff, plant seeds, feed animals, harvest things. There were also hints of weird endorsement of trolling behavior - you can buy some potion to kill other people's plants. There was an interesting quest I got early on to Not sure if that's indicative of the kind of stuff they're going for, since that was literally the only interesting thing that happened in my first hour. There were also some platforming sections in a visually interesting Macro-zone style dining room, but the controls were nothing to write home about.

Just rediscovered "The Independint Charles Show," a series of off-kilter XBLIG reviews done by Rab Florence of Consolvania/VideoGaiden/RPS. LVZX1lrs21Q

"Is Angry Birds a Metroid for Adults?" --IGN Story Generator

Some insight into the workings of their visualization algorithm: KMA23JJ1M1o So apparently the visuals aren't directly read from the brain pixel-by-pixel. They're reconstructed by averaging together one-second YouTube clips that their model believes would have generated similar brain activity upon viewing.

Made a silly little game that mashes up Knuckles: Chaotix and Tale of Tales The Path for an event at Glorious Trainwrecks: http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1935

I vaguely remember GoW2 had this weird matchmaking system where you either had to wait forever for a match, or get into matches where autobalance usually made sure you weren't on the same team as the friends in your party? Is that still around for this iteration or am I remembering things wrong?

Equally unhelpful, some guy on Reddit drew games/apps of his childhood, including Klik & Play, and Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker*: http://i.imgur.com/IEVmX.jpg *There are a few KNP trainwrecks I made floating around online, but my "movies" will never see the light of day!

That reminds me to give Splodge another chance. Was having some issues with my American keyboard, iirc. I'm lucky enough to have a 32-bit OS that doesn't need to faff about with emulators to play KNP games. You'll probably find more help at Glorious Trainwrecks, yeah. Don't have any experience with VFD. I believe DOSBox allows you to mount folders as floppy/CD drives. Once you have the original KNP files, you can actually open them in later Clickteam apps. TGF2: Newgrounds Edition lets you export KNP games to Flash for free, albeit with a Newgrounds-themed ad-filled preloader. Might be sitelocked to localhost and Newgrounds, too. Also, it can't play MIDI files. MMF2 is able to produce EXEs that modern PCs can run, and can play MIDI files, but costs money. And there's a chance the game won't run as intended, due to over a decade of bug fixes to the underlying code.

Jeff Goldblum wants to congratulate you for beating The Lost World: Jurassic Park. a4_jMfBq3dc

I heard this is a spin-off of Recettear, focusing on the consequences of shopkeepers who default on their loans.

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