http://www.invertedcastle.com The video game blog necessary for 200% completion Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anna Anthropy aka Auntie Pixelate aka Dessgeega -- who you may remember as the creator of Mighty Jill Off -- has just released her latest (and biggest yet) game, REDDER. I helped playtest this game, and loved every minute of it, and totally didn't mind finishing it over a ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/03/10/204/ There was a message in my coffee this morning. It told me to recommend Deadly Premonition to you. Practically anything I say about this game would be a spoiler, so I'll just say that it's 1 part Silent Hill, 1 part GTA, and 2 parts Twin Peaks. It's also only ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/03/02/my-pot-is-getting-cold/ Just a quick note that Nathan Fouts' awesome new game, Shoot 1UP has made it through peer review and should be hitting Xbox Live Indie Games any second now! Nathan threw together an early build of Shoot 1UP in 7 days as an entrant in an Experimental Gameplay Project competition (which ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/02/24/the-only-shoot1up-blog-post-on-the-entire-internet-that-doesnt-use-the-robotits-picture/ This is a bit of a departure from the usual stuff here, but it's good enough and video-gamey enough that I thought it was worth talking about. A friend of mine recently posted on his tabletop-gaming blog his ruminations on running a tabletop RPG based on Day Break. I'd never heard ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/02/01/what-if-it-was-a-video-game/ My homies over at Call of Podcast have put together their lists of the top 5 games of the aughts, which has inspired me to make a "top [arbitrary number of] games of the aughts" list of my own! So, here goes! Honorable Mention: Earthbound: Although this game came out ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/01/14/oh-boy-an-arbitrary-list-you-wont-care-about/ I feel dumb for being so nitpicky, but I'm really bothered by the audio in Wii Klonoa. The voices in Klonoa are sort of a big thing to me, and "wahoo!" and "eepow!" are an integral part of my wife's and my vocabulary. Also, Ghadius's first line of "HOOOAA... JOKE!!" ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2010/01/07/wahoo-abunga-dude/ Just a quick note that the amazing Dr. Petter has released an alpha version of sculptris, an awesome freeware 3D sculpting tool. I used it to make this nifty old man face in about 5 minutes, just playing around with the default settings and brush, and just using my ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2009/12/20/wouldnt-you-like-to-be-a-petter-too/ The other night I noticed that one of the things listed on my projects page pointed to a dead link, so I fixed that. In the process, however, I started looking at some of my old, abandoned projects, and that got me thinking about how cool I think it ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2009/12/11/that-cactus-kid-aint-got-nothin-on-me/ So... uh... Microsoft is starting the next Dream Build Play competition a little early, and this time it's sponsored by Old Spice, with a separate, larger grand prize if you make an advergame for Old Spice. Wacky. But it means they can double their prize money and prize categories, ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2009/12/09/the-worm-the-spice-is-there-a-connection/ Somewhere along the line, I developed a certain weakness for sliding-block puzzles. I'm not quite sure how it happened, honestly; Apple's bundled Puzzle desktop accessory always drove me nuts, and I never bothered to finish the World's Hardest Trick the first time around. Yet somewhere between gnotski during Computational Mathematics lectures ... http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2009/12/05/slidin-away/