The game was released in Players align similarly colored blocks and trace the path they create when aligned. Star blocks act as power-ups that extend combos. Rogers produced an "infomercial-style trailer" for the game, which VG called one of his signature moves and that IndieGames. TNNS, pronounced "tennis", is a brick-breaking action game where players use a paddle along the screen's left side to bounce a ball towards breakable objects on the right side of the screen, and to avoid getting the ball in their goal.
It was released with little advanced notice in November for iOS as a universal app playable on iPhones, iPads, and iPods.
Danny Cowan of IndieGames. Pocket Gamer likened it to both and further compared it with Alleyway, Arkanoid, and Super Hexagon with a "telekinetic power" to alter the ball's direction apart from the panel as in Shatter. Rogers co-founded Action Button Entertainment while working on Ziggurat, which began with an idea Rogers had while playing Angry Birds about pushing back a swarm of bats by shooting projectiles at them.
He decided that he could not make the game alone. Rogers put out a call for artists on Twitter with a submissions request of "fan art of the Japanese box art of Phantasy Star II", and Action Button artist Brent Porter replied in under an hour with an entry Rogers called "incredible".
In mid , Rogers decided to work on an iPhone game for a few weeks as a break from a larger project. Rogers said the team was convinced by his design document—this game would become Ziggurat. Rogers contacted an Internet acquaintance who had previously mocked up a design idea from Rogers's Kotaku column, programmer Michael Kerwin, who came through with a rough draft within a week. Andrew Toups converted a soundtrack created by Rogers's rock band into an 8-bit soundtrack.
They need to hear your comments. I agree that writers any creatives, really need to be able to practice their craft and need to be allowed to produce sophomoric material on their journey to High Falutiness. Complacency sucks, smash the state! Sex is exactly like philosophy. He was not saying sex is like philosophy.
He was saying philosophy is like masturbation — not as fulfilling nor as enjoyable as sex. Ask most people why they believe what they believe and they will not be able to answer you. Epistemology is not the stuff of the usual social discourse. Nor is philosophy. The idealist knows philosophy is the underpinning upon which all thought proceeds. But outside the rarified air of the ivory tower, this reality is handily and rather easily ignored.
Then again, the point of certainty and conviction is arguably unknowable — so perhaps Marx had it right after all. I was just joking about the Marx comment. But maybe what exactly he means by that, is only something that wanky philosophers would ask about it. I agree about the usual social discourse. Also, whether or not the point of certainty and conviction is knowable is — as you point out — itself a question for philosophy If it IS true if a claim like that can be , there are still philosophical positions that would agree, so they may still prove useful.
Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. All Rights Reserved. Typepad to Wordpress Conversion by Foliovision. Home Archives About disclaimer contacts. The Alphaville Herald. These are akin to a Hooters magazine and a bottle of hand lotion. Have a look at these two examples, from two different authors, writing about Jedi Knight 2: Example of Old Games Journalism " But why? An OGJ article: 1. Masturbation and sex are both really great.
Philip Linden. Ten Unmissable Examples of New Game Journalism — thanks Jeromai for inspiring the search that found this article, dating from Some great stuff here. And this duly happened. Follow Following. Welcome to Spinksville! Join 1, other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. OK, over to you all. Any recommendations for articles that really stayed with you as good examples of what you like to read in gaming journalism? Also, pretty much anything by Kieron Gillen had excellen chances of being good to great.
Oo, when I was searching for the first one, I found an old Guardian article that lists a few of their fave articles. Will add that to the list, thanks. I would have pointed to several articles from the late lamented Righteous Orbs, but their links have long faded into dust. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
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