By 9572AD on March 8, 2010
I like music visualizers. I’ve liked them since before there were music visualizers – since I first saw a component equalizer with LED level indicators. While all the fancy visualizers of today make the equalizer display look positively plebian, it does have one advantage – I can tell what it is reacting to.
With the fancy [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 400 Points, 9572AD, Altered Reality, code gifted, Genre: Music, iRiS 2.0 - Visualizer Studio, not a game, Recommended
By 9572AD on February 1, 2010
My mother used to have a glob of live sourdough culture she called ‘Herman’. She would add flour to it and feed it and it would grow and balloon into something much larger, but it was still just sourdough. Dirge Game Studio’s Herman is like that as well.
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 400 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, Dirge Game Studio, Genre: Action & Adventure, Herman
By 9572AD on December 9, 2009
Remember PC gaming in 1992? A couple years before DOS extenders, when processors ran at 33MHz and a 16MB HDD was pretty big, just getting a platform game running at all was considered an accomplishment. There were timing oddities and collision errors in games that often had enemies bumbling about outside the range of your [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 240 Points, 9572AD, BogTurtleCarl, code gifted, Elfland Reloaded Vol. 1, Genre: Action & Adventure
By 9572AD on November 17, 2009
Isn’t this a free in-browser Flash game? Well, yes and no. This version of Fishing Girl is not just a port; it plays rather differently from the original Flash game. So, no more about the Flash version, this is the XBLIG version of Fishing Girl.
Fishing Girl is a well-executed, charming and simple game. You cast [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, errcw, Fishing Girl, Genre: Action & Adventure
By 9572AD on October 17, 2009
Puzzle games, always a joy to review. I think there are more styles of play in puzzle games than any other genre, and more variation of opinion. (For example, I find Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo to be on the lower end of mediocre, while I’m painfully aware of its immense popularity.) Attempting to explain [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 240 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, Genre: Puzzle & Trivia, Kuchibi, Spyn Doctor
By 9572AD on October 16, 2009
Spawned upstream with Dotstream and Streamline, BitStream is a steer-your-line-around-obstacles racing game with superior audiovisuals and a twist.
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 400 Points, 9572AD, BitStream, code gifted, Genre: Racing & Flying, ProjectorGames
By 9572AD on October 9, 2009
Set in that mythical world your government wants you to believe in, where Terrorism is a nation rather than a modus operandi (I think it shares a border with the nation of Drugs) and war can be made against it, Shellblast HD asserts the premise that we know where all of the Terrorists’ bombs are [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 400 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, Genre: Puzzle & Trivia, Optum, Shellblast HD
By 9572AD on October 5, 2009
Anyone who started gaming with the SNES or later can just turn away and go about your business right now. This is not the game for you, and you are unlikely to understand how it could hold any appeal. For those who spent years gaming on 8-bit home computers, though, this nouveau retro game could [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, Bailout!, ChefTeslaCoil, code gifted, Genre: Classics, Recommended
By 9572AD on September 7, 2009
It seems inevitable that any “Mode 7″-styled go-kart racer gets labeled a Mario Kart clone. It’s rather unfair that an entire genre is perceived as ripping off a single title, even if it was the originator of the genre. I try to judge a game by its own merits, and let it be defined by [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 400 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, Genre: Racing & Flying, KrollWare LLC, Wacky Karts
By 9572AD on August 27, 2009
A tangram, for those who don’t know, is a set of seven particular shapes cut from a square and rearranged to form other figures. The shapes must not overlap, and I believe they are all supposed to be touching, though I have seen patterns which disregard that limitation. There are only two things I can [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, code gifted, Genre: Puzzle & Trivia, Golden Tangram, Spyn Doctor
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