Friday, June 24, 2011

Racing Games on the iPad

I've just played Sega All Stars Racing on my iPad.

Great fun, but it uses tilt controls to control the steering of the vehicle. This works great, until I've been playing for 3 minutes and my shoulders start to ache.

People that are building racing games for iDevices obviously have not payed any attention to the lessons learned from Gorilla Arm Syndrome.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

I tried Battlestar Galactica Online..

... they sent me my password in clear text.

Instant, mega-fail. Now I need to change all my game related passwords.

Thanks for that.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

EVE Online, initial perspective.

First of all, I'm starting to enjoy the learning curve. Bute there are a few things that are annoying.

1. Clipping through planets.
2. Clipping through stars.
3. Clipping through wrecks.
4. Clipping through stations.


Amazing that this happens in such a... er... 'AAA' title?
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Glowy Things.


From our "coming soon" game...
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Beautiful Planets.


This planet has city lights, an atmosphere layer and polar regions.
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Facebook.

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