Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon
Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster's Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game "feel" that makes a game not just fun, but injects fun into the basic actions and events on-screen. Candymeleon, a selection by Bulkypix from the 'New ...
Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality
One day in October 2012, I happened across this YouTube video with a top-down view of PSY’s concert in Seoul. Over 80,000 people were in attendance, with the crowd spanning entire city blocks. Every member of the audience was singing along in unison with PSY who was on stage addressing ...
I Play SimCity Social for the Writing
“SimCity Social?” they ask me. “Sure, it’s got the SimCity branding and all, but isn’t it just another click-and-wait Facebook game?” Though I know the look of skepticism it will produce, my reply is, “Oh, I play SimCity Social for the writing.” Since I can feel your dubious smirks already, let me ...
User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users
We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify locations, or localize games, or whichever approach they feel like taking. While there are some ...
Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today
Just another regular day in the games industry! Dogfighting game War Thunder has a new set of combatants, there's a new contender in the console field, and SEGA's got a new sound engine. New DLC is out for Journey, which is nice, and Europa Universalis was announced for a new platform. Oh, and ...
Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You
This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle. Together with Grim Fandango and his work on the Monkey Island series and Day of the Tentacle (all also LucasArts games), Full Throttle ...
8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, it’s because in a fast-paced, high-tech market, it’s always true (and thus worth reiteration). It seems ...
How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! You’re about to discover what geotagging and GPS-enabled mobile devices can add to gaming and ...Archive | Frisky Misc RSS feed for this section
Dancing with the Stars on the Move for the iPhone in this Post
Tweet I’ve got a preposition for you. No, that’s not a typo; I’m not proposing anything. I am, instead, letting you know that TriplePoint client Reliance Games has just published a mobile game based on ABC’s long-running celebrity dancing show, and therefore you can now get Dancing with the Stars: On the Move for your iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Bloom Box: Free Flowers by Shooting Flowers at Flowers
21. May 2013
Tweet There’s a common theme running through Bloom Box, the upcoming iOS puzzler from TriplePoint client Nexx Studio, but I just can’t seem to put my green thumb on it. Bloom Box tasks players with placing the titular bloom boxes into a field of flowers in such a way that, when triggered, they will fire projectiles (made [...]
Continue reading...Meet the Shipbreakers Baserunner in this Gametrailer
20. May 2013
Tweet TriplePoint client Blackbird Interactive has been working on a piece of software called HARDWARE: Shipbreakers, a real-time strategy title that looks extremely pretty. If your concept of beauty includes marvelously rendered engines of war, of course. Which it should. Look, you can judge for yourself — Blackbird is debuting one of the game’s units [...]
Continue reading...PlayFirst Releases Diner Dash on Google PlayNext
20. May 2013
Tweet Diner Dash is a game all about starting out small and manageable, and then growing and growing until your restaurant empire is unstoppable. It seems like the publisher, TriplePoint client PlayFirst, subscribes to the ‘write what you know’ school of design, because the same thing has happened to Diner Dash itself, which started out as [...]
Continue reading...League of Legends + Taylor Swift = Lady Game Lyric
17. May 2013
Tweet Lady Game Lyric has a co-star today! A Gentleman Game Lyric by the name of Ryan Kendall has teamed up with our favorite parody songstress to wax poetic about League of Legends today, and the result is harmonious teamwork. Taylor Swift supplies the tune, our YouTubers supply the lyrics and singing, and that n00b who’s [...]
Continue reading...Temple Run 2 Tries Harder to Kill You
17. May 2013
Tweet Temple Run 2, much like its predecessor, is a game nobody can ever win. You run and you run, and perhaps you cover a long distance and feel pretty good about it, but ultimately you fling yourself off a cliff or into the murderous arms of a hell-monkey. It’s a game about losing. As [...]
Continue reading...Thursday Appdate: Running with Friends
16. May 2013
Tweet Friendship may or may not be magic, but it helps you accomplish an awful lot in the realm of gaming. In Zynga’s library alone, if you’ve got friends, you can match words, you can hang, maybe scramble a bit, share of game of chess; your friends are fairly versatile when it comes to recreation. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesdroid: Monsterama Planet
15. May 2013
Tweet Much like the other days of the week build towards Wednesday in anticipation of the Google Play store update, so too does today’s featured Play Pick slowly swell in momentum and anxiousness towards a flashy pay-off in classic build-em-up style. Monsterama Planet, a free-to-play space colony builder by developer/publisher/fruit/bird Kiwi, takes the standard model of [...]
Continue reading...Evilot Out on iPad, Soon to Be Portedalot
15. May 2013
Tweet Last week, we talkedalot about Evilot, a crafty new mashup of tower-based-defense and three-based-matching: guard your lanes with horrid beasties, and if you line up three in a row or a column, they become even beastlier! Well, the game’s out today for iPad, so, thanksalot, TriplePoint client Syrenaica! Today’s release puts the anti-heroic match-defense [...]
Continue reading...The Sporos Are Free, the Aliens Are Blitzing
15. May 2013
Tweet Some people celebrate milestones with a splashy announcement or a party, but not TriplePoint client Appxplore. No, they’ve decided that the proper way to mark two million downloads for puzzle-app Sporos is to unleash a torrent of spores and aliens upon us all — presumably because now that they’ve achieved their success, there’s nothing more [...]
Continue reading...GeoGuessr is Quite Literally Location-Based Gaming
14. May 2013
Tweet Where in the world has this game been all my life? If I knew the answer to that, I’d be able to click on its location, and win all the points. GeoGuessr, an extraordinarily clever browser game by Anton Wallén, is a location-based game about determining a location for points. The game drops you somewhere on [...]
Continue reading...Windows 8 PCs are Crazy Machines
14. May 2013
Tweet Okay. Being able to solve simple problems by assembling needlessly complicated Rube Goldberg devices? That’s fairly crazy. Being able to share those devices with like-minded inventors across multiple platforms? That’s very crazy. Getting access to Crazy Machines Golden Gears via the Windows Store and being able to download the game on Windows 8 PCs digitally for [...]
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