Tag: computer games

Kickstarter campaign to bring immersive fantasy roleplaying to mobile devices…and I’m the writer!

Now, this is cool: Project Snowstorm is an effort by fledgling computer game company Snowfury Studios to do nothing less than revolutionize mobile gaming: to bring to it the kind of immersive fantasy roleplaying we associate with the best PC games, the kind of games that give you that same feeling of having experienced a …

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I’m the “LoreMaster” for a brand-new computer game company…

…called Snowfury Studios. Check out the website (you’ll find me under “Our Team”), and then check out the video below, the teaser trailer for the first proposed game (Kickstarter willing), Project Snowstorm: Rise of the Eternals, hopefully the first in a trilogy. I’m having a lot of fun working on this and have great hopes …

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You can have my Scrabulous when you pry it from my cold dead fingers

Hasbro has sent letters to Facebook asking it to remove Scrabulous, the popular online version of Scrabble. SOS! Save our Scrabulous!

My dad always said I could be whatever I wanted to be…

…and that’s especially true of the Internet, where a false persona is only a few mouse clicks away. Witness this slide show of real people and the avatars they use in online games. I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m more uncomfortable being anonymous online than I am being myself. I even …

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"Science is easy!"

My daughter received a Webkinz for her sixth birthday last week. Webkinz are stuffed animals which come with a code that provides access to a website where kids can play games, buy things for the online version of their animals, etc. Among the Webkinz activities are quizzes about various topics. Among the topics: science. Which, …

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From MUD to MOO to a whole Second Life

This week’s CBC Web column… *** The search for new worlds to visit isn’t confined to the crew of Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise, nor does it necessarily involve outer space. These days, you can find all the strange worlds you could ever want to visit right on your computer–worlds populated with other visitors from the …

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How realistic are combat computer games?

Here’s an interesting interview on that topic with Dr. Malcom Davis, a lecturer in Defence Studies with the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London. Dr. Davis says current games certainly have some realistic elements, but: I think that consumer military simulations are never going to be totally realistic because ultimately people don’t really die …

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The return of Commodore

My first computer was a Commodore 64, bought ca. 1981 for (if I remember correctly) $895 Canadian, plus $595 for the 1541 floppy disk drive. (It came with a plastic Apple core on a string to wear around your neck, the Apple II being the main competitor for the C64 when it launched.) I used …

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I haven’t been playing many computer games recently…

…but obviously I should: Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their …

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Whenever I think I might like to pop into Second Life again…

…I read something like this. There are no Utopias, online or off.

Half-Life’s automated machine-gun sentries…

…become a reality, courtesy of Samsung and Korea University. Just a little scary, don’t you think? (Via Gizmodo.)

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