I used to reckon that I could distinguish at least moderately reliably between those kickstarter projects that were intended as jokes and those that were the absolutely serious effort of someone suffering badly from the Dunning-Kruger effect. The infamous potato salad fell pretty clearly into the first category, while the people who wanted to start ( Read more... )

I seem to have found myself playing Fallen London, as a devious and observant person of mysterious and indistinct gender. Browser-based, free[1], heavily text-oriented (the illustrations are entertainingly thematic, but there wouldn't be any difficulty playing the game without them) and very silly. And I haven't even managed to gain entrance to ( Read more... )

I know at least some of my friends play these :)

There's currently an interesting looking kickstarter for a turn-based strategy game with asynchronous multiplayer (ie play by email). "Expected" release date is the end of the year (and this is an established studio and team with several finished-and-released games to their credit, albiet in other ( Read more... )

I'm planning to buy a copy of Torchlight 2, on the grounds that the original game is excellent[1], and the beta of TL2 was even better. Torchlight is a Diablo/Fate-style "action RPG" created by the people who designed Fate and the first two Diablo games, and TL2 looks to be Diablo 2 to TL's Diablo 1 (bigger, better, kaboomier!). Steam does a four ( Read more... )

Steam have given me a second copy of the Valve Orange Box in their
Christmas giveaway. Anyone here interested in it (or know someone who
wants one)?

Ideally I'd be looking to trade it for something I don't already have,
but I'd rather give it away to someone who'll play the games than have
it sitting there forever.

This started off as a collection of links to go into a comment on
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Great cleave, a holy avenger +10, and a whole room full of level one mooks.

I mean, it's not intelligent, or sophisticated, or anything like that, but the series of slash/aargh/crunch noises, and accompanying spiral of fire-beetle corpses is just so much fun.

(Apologies to those to whom this makes no sense, or who are horrified by the violence.)