Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Om Nom Nom
The AGS Award nominations are up on the AGS Wiki. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of Ben in there, with a decent showing by McCarthy, Marionette, Back Door Man and TGP, too.
Indiegames.com also cover the awards and give some thoughts of their own.
Indiegames.com also cover the awards and give some thoughts of their own.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Dave G tries to pretend that he's a social butterfly
Yeah, yeah, you're not fooling anyone, Dave, even with your fun little article on your blog.
I wonder if one day that you'll say that you care
...like a puppet on a striiiiiing, auriond's The Marionette has won JayIsGames's best adventure. Woo! Congratulations! Now to start the debate of whether Ben split his own vote... but he did end up with 3rd. And 5th. And 7th, 8th and 9th positions.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Go Aeronuts for the Maggies winner
Abstauber has claimed the Maggie for the best MAGS game of 2009 with Aeronuts. Runners up were Samarkand by Babar, Mr.Danger's Contest by poc301 and Writter's Block Tech Demo by bspeers.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The wonderful thing about TIGSource
Is that TIGSource is a wonderful thing, especially when they get Shade Jackrabbit to review The Marionette.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Only Commies have a problem with McCarthy
Want to avoid being put on the blacklist or facing a Senate hearing? Go and read Indiegame's freeware game pick for the McCarthy Chronicles!
Lots of AGS love
Alternative magazine present their top games of 2009 and best indie adventures include Blackwell, Downfall and honorable mentions for TGP and ECC.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Little lambsy divy
If the title sounds queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivy then head over to the Hardydev blog and read the Erin Robinson interview there.
It's the final pitfall (do do dooo do, dododododo...)
We're heading for Venus and still Ben304 presents the last chapter of his "Game Design by Pitfalls" series over on hardydev.
Monday, January 11, 2010
The awards take the bicci
Awesome Italian bicilotti has taken the awards off my hands and it only cost him a few million lire. Anyway, go and read the FYC and nominations threads and nominate to your heart's content.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Tantrum time
Well, apologies for the lack of recent posting, I'm busy moving my life around! Anyway, over on the forums the old "I don't like the score the review panel gave" debate is on again. This time, Hurg has deleted all 3 Cosmos Quest games from the AGS Games DB in reaction, although you can still get them from his site.
I had some people express to me similar anger to the lack of AGS awards for QFG2VGA, with the general thrust being that not enough or the wrong type of people voted in the awards. Well, the review panel isn't enough people for some either. Especially when their game or one they like is involved. Or maybe some people can't take criticism. People should realise that such protests don't make them look like freedom fighters but instead make them seem petty and vain.
Andail has said that an official announcement is coming soon. Let's see if it pours oil on the waters.
I had some people express to me similar anger to the lack of AGS awards for QFG2VGA, with the general thrust being that not enough or the wrong type of people voted in the awards. Well, the review panel isn't enough people for some either. Especially when their game or one they like is involved. Or maybe some people can't take criticism. People should realise that such protests don't make them look like freedom fighters but instead make them seem petty and vain.
Andail has said that an official announcement is coming soon. Let's see if it pours oil on the waters.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Adoration of the Maggies
