Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

C O L O R F L O W

A some point last year I became infatuated with a game commonly known as Flood-It by a company called LabPixies. My obsession resulted in the creation of a clone I call C O L O R F L O W which addresses the major faults I found with the game, namely there was no way […]

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Achievements & Video Games

Growing up I played baseball, ran track & field, studied piano, participated in the cub/boy scouts, etc. During that time I accumulated a number of trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons and so on. Of course I didn’t win/advance to the next level all the time or on the first try, and the reasons for receiving them […]

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

On Learning

Earlier this year on Facebook, a few of my friends started playing a game called Geochallenge. The game creators had implemented a viral feature such that whenever a friend played, I received updates e.g. “So and so’s city knowledge is improving, test yours!” I played a few times, and beat all but one of my […]

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Winds Still 404

While I’m waiting for the Amazon.com “Gold Box For Gamers” which begins at midnight PST, it seems like a good time to comment on completing LostWinds. This was my first WiiWare purchase, 1,000 points (10 USD) and it provide exactly 7 hours of gameplay. 2008-12-28 – 2hrs 54min (co-op with my wife) 2008-12-30 – 2hrs […]