In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
“All this jumping around is not for grown men.”
Trine is a platformer for those who ordinarily overlook platformers. Someone who tired of the genre’s limited run, jump, shoot/slash verb set a long time ago might find this 2009 Frozenbyte game a refreshing experience, a platformer which stays faithful to the classic tropes even as it allows the player to easily sidestep them.
The fairy tale look of the game is absolutely gorgeous, the soundtrack is enchanting yet it’s the gameplay which makes this a memorable experience. The game sets up beautiful environments fully realised with a physics engine then lets the player cheekily subvert the science with magic.
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– Thursday, May 20, 2010
From the Tropico 3 1.13 patch notes:
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– Saturday, May 15, 2010
Good Old Games lived up to its name once again with the release of SimTex Software’s RPG-flavoured 4x title, Master of Magic. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time this classic Steve Barcia design has been re-released since 1994, and I’ve certainly been looking forward to playing a good turn-based 4x game that isn’t Civilization.
(A man was only meant to discover pottery so many times in one lifetime, Sid Meier.)
GOG has once again done a commendable job ensuring a classic game gets its due. For the low price of USD5.99, you get MoM ver. 1.31 along with the superb 153-page manual and 48-page spellbook (both as PDF files), the OST in MP3 format and some hi-res wallpaper.
The single best thing about GOG’s service is older games are guaranteed to run on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems — an impressive feat given the differences in hardware and software over the past two decades. In MoM’s case, this required using the brilliant MS-DOS emulator, DOSBox.
Although you can run MoM with the default settings without problems, I’d strongly recommend making a few changes to enhance the experience. To do this, you need to tweak DOSBox’s configuration file, dosboxMOM.conf, in the Master of Magic directory. Back the file up before making edits as needed.
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– Thursday, May 13, 2010
A pirate’s lot be a miserable one to be sure. The sea be a fickle mistress, lettin’ ye do as you will one moment and forsakin’ ye the next. There be pirate hunters huntin’ ye down for bounty, hopin’ to string ye up. There be other scurvy scoundrels lustin’ after yer hard-won booty. There be confoundin’ apostrophes appearin’ in every sentence ye set down on parchment. Then there be these …
May that infernal Nullcontainer be thrice damn’d. By what devilry do it own five open files to stop me rulin’ the Caribbean? A pirate can scarcely spend 10 minutes at sea before crashin’ to the desktop.
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– Saturday, May 8, 2010
