EPIC ROM CHECK FAIL

I can’t even explain it, except to say that using the defender ship to shoot qixes, or using Link to break arkanoid blocks is completely surreal. Go to http://www.farbs.org/games.html and download ROM CHECK FAIL. It will own you, but not for too long, which makes it a perfect bite-sized game for a break.
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Smashball Needs Publicity!

I just sent the following spam to a huge chunk of my address book. As if that weren’t enough, I’m posting it on my blog, and then twittering about it. Guerrilla marketing Web 2.0-style, what? As I mention below, “…this is a big leap for me. It is time to cash [...]

Vote for Smashball for 2008 Mod Of The Year!

Shameless plugging of my life’s work, as it were. Please head on over to ModDB’s Smashball page, create an account if you don’t have one, and VOTE!

When daring game design decisions work: Why Smashball ownzu

Hot damn, Smashball is now in public beta. What are you waiting for? Go download Smashball while you read this!
This last weekend, I built a small web farm on AWS. Somewhere in my sysadmin binge this weekend it occured to me that there was no document written for gamers about Smashball, describing [...]

Beatbox 360: You could dance to it

Follow the link to a story about a machanima guy who recently created an all-xbox-360 beatbox video. It’s fairly impressive, not just because he did it in 4k, but because it’s pretty catchy and all done with video + sound samples. I own a fair number of the games in this video, though [...]