Tag: gaming

“City of Brass” remarks

Hi 🙂

Remember nearly two months ago when I ever so earnestly promised remarks on City of Brass because I got it while it was on an immensely cheap introductory sale?

Guess what… Nearly two months later… remarks provided!  (Screenshots are mine, and yes, I know it doesn’t look good on my computer… ha ha)

“City of Brass” is an arcade roguelike game. I haven’t gotten far enough in to tell if there’s a story, but at least it serves as a nice demonstration of combat with some interesting details.

There are many kinds of loot to get picked up and thrown around. The whip is handy for grabbing items, booping the noses and ankles of your despicable adversaries, and breaking furnaces to cause them to erupt into wondrous balls of fire. Stunning, disarming, tripping, and shoving baddies is pretty neat. It is also reasonably rewarding to figure out how to get rid of enemies with explosive and mechanical hazards.

All-in-all, kind of a fun romp. Since this was made by people who worked on Bioshock, naturally it would be neat to see if they took take this quality of enemy interaction and integrate it into a longer and choicy-consequencier scenario.

“City of Brass” $3.99 on Steam until Dec. 16

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301840/City_of_Brass/

City of Brass, a new action game from some of the people who brought you  Bioshock, is available on Steam for $3.99 until Dec. 16!

I got other things to do, but when I get around to playing it, I will make remarks.

Cool Freebies: Epic Games Store and Tinkercad

Epic Games Store has at least one free game every week.  Go for it, ya hoarder.  Every once in a while, it lays an awfully big egg, like the 6 free Batman games from two weeks ago, or Metro 2033 Redux a week ago, neither of which you read about here, because I am most terrific at operate the blog.

Tinkercad is a website by the one-and-only Autodesk.  It’s totally free to use, just sign up for a free Autodesk account, and it’s all online, nothing to download.  Its three main sections are 3D design, circuit prototyping, and coding with graphic blocks.  Do all kinds of neat stuff with no mess to clean up, so hopefully your IRL version is a little less messy.

ITT I become an outcast

May the reader be reminded of the title of this blog: “What Have I Done?”

This is not a web blog, or a graphics blog, or an art blog, or a culture blog, or a tech blog.  The content I choose for it to contain is entirely incidental.  This area will contain whatever strikes my fancy, regardless of whatever it is I am thinking or doing.

I recently bought Jedi Outcast from Gog.com on a p. sweet sale for about US$3 and change. I played Dark Forces II a super long time ago, and several folks on RPG Codex swear Jedi Outcast is good, so naturally I waited for it to cost about three value cheeseburgers.

It has some issues with the Windows 10 running on my laptop, which include crashing on startup, really putting a damper on the gameplay experience. I got it to work by messing with this one little DLL.

I also did this: widescreen tinker from Steam forum , and running in WinXP compatibility.  Bumped up visual settings, seems to work pretty good.

I’m not real far in, but I gotta give two thumbs up to anything with non-linear, interconnected level design.

Loot Icon Set

https://www.scirra.com/store/icons-for-game-dev/loot-icon-set-4683

I have released a new item for Scirra’s Construct 3 and Construct 2 game dev software!

80 count of 32×32 PNG icons, and a .AI file!

A variety of items in a variety of colors, great for falling out of treasure chests, or fatal wounds in your monstrous foes!

🙂

Get ‘Myst’ for less than 2 bucks

https://www.gog.com/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

Myst: Masterpiece Edition is on sale for $1.79 until June 18th!  Big whoop, right, I mean it was only the best-selling game in the world for its first 9 years…

GOG is having a big fat summer sale!

https://www.gog.com/game/xenonauts

You can also get Xenonauts for free for the next uh 38 hours from now which I guess means the offer ends sometime Wednesday morning !! !!

!!

Exiled Realm: mobile game experiment/wip

Play it at Scirra Arcade

Developed in Construct 2. My unfinished try at a mobile-compatible game, done “my way”.  It’s missing some bells-and-whistles but it technically has some sort of beginning, middle, end. Expect some of the sorts of things I am into: non-linear roaming, different foe types, interactive world, and multiple endings.

‘Outcast 1.1’ is a buck-forty-nine until Monday

It’s here

‘Outcast’ is an open-world game from 1999. On sale at GOG.com until Monday 2/26, $1.49

I already got it some time ago, and haven’t finished it yet, but it is very good.

Pluses: very big world; very non-linear; play how you want; lots of stuff to do.

Minuses: Textures haven’t aged well; menu interface is kind of clunky for mouse/keyboard, but this version of the game is compatible with Xbox controller (or x-input equivalent).

Yeah, there is a remake… but for a limited time, this version is super-cheap…