I've been building an MMORPG...

...for the Hip-Hop community!

Yeah, I know it sounds random, but the innovative ideas usually do ;) I think I'm on to something here, and pretty soon I'll have a version to share with you here on the blog (assuming we still have some readers...).

You can catch a little YouTube teaser over here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=V_uMZryr-MI

-jason

READ MY BLAGOBLAG

I put up a new post on my personal blog! It's all about gaming so you guys should read it:

http://s0dk.blogspot.com/

The Ultimate ARG

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html?_r=1&ref=style&oref=slogin

This is a NYTimes article about a 5th avenue apartment that gets converted into a sort of "game" without the client's knowledge, where clues, riddle, and puzzles are imbedded into the house almost like a computer mystery game or an online ARG. Check out the slideshow (my favorite is the door knockers that combine into a crank which opens a hidden apartment) for some examples, but when I see this I just can't help feel that this is reality imitating old games like "Myst".

I have no idea

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Moar Blogz

Hay guys,

I'm starting a blog about games, life, cooking, music, etc. You can reach it here: http://s0dk.blogspot.com/

Drop by! I just started it last night and I think it looks pretty ugly but I'll be working on it this summer.

Look what I found!

An Essay on Shadow of the Colossus

I'm going to read it, play the game, and post some form of response. Stay tuned.

Bored? PLAY THIS GAME AND WRITE A PAPER ON IT!!!

So EVENTUALLY I'd like to post some thoughtful discourse and analysis on games/codeart/digital media on this blog, but tonight I'm tired, lazy, and bored so I thought I'd post a few links to games that I have and have not played in hopes that at least someone else's boredom will be staved off for a few hours or minutes.

Darkside Adventures
The Dude's website
A fun game designed in the style of old Genesis/NES games. It gets pretty hard, and I'm definitely stuck on the last level. Still, it's got a fun retro feel to it.

A review of Ether Vapor
Torrent
A fun Japanese Doujin Shmup. Japanese Doujin computer game industry is truly fascinating, and it's almost like an official indie gaming market which is really cool. Anyways, I was going to have links to the game demo proper, but apparently the whole company website is down/missing. Maybe they just moved, or are temporarily down, or gone for good, but it's definitely a fun game, judging by how many times I played it during screening on mute. It gets pretty hard, and there's a cool system where the number of shields and continues your allowed to have increases as you play more times, so you're allowed to mess up more often the more times you die.

That's about all I feel like posting up for now. Later on in the summer, I'll write up a bit about http://0100101110101101.org/ or The Marriage but right now Robot Chicken should be coming on so I'm signing off.

Gnite Folks!
-Jason "The Basin" Lee