As part of my continuing game-a-week series, it’s The Next Floor. Its violent! Its bloody! Its something I normally don’t make unless its a surgery simulator or a game about jumping out of helicopters! Anyway, this game was a lot of fun to make and was very different. Its also technically my first tower-defence style game.
Enjoy. Its not easy. Dare you make it to Day 15? Play now.
This post was written by John on Friday, July 31st, 2009. He has 476 posts on this blog.
Tags: elevators, the next floor, violent
Hello friends. This week on Old Games That Don’t Suck Thursday, it’s Ecco the Dolphin.
I’ll say it because you won’t, but what the hell is it that makes this game so fun? You are spinning, sound-bouncing dolphin that swims around and basically tries to escape and maze of coral beds, enemies, and music that sounds like it’s from a Sim City 2000 netherworld. But really, its a fun game. Albeit its weird, but its fun.
My experience with Genesis is extremely limited but this was one of the few games I did have an experience to try out. Excuse my pun but the experience was immersive for its time and the presentation was beautiful and complete. For 16-bit system it did a phenomenal job offering a different experience. And it was not just a jump-n-bump platformer; the series of levels that followed were all cleverly terrible to navigate. However, exploration was fun and the entire game made me happy.
It does carry some gripes. The camera makes me want to throw up and sometimes I get so frustrated that I want to strangle that little pixelated dolphin.
I never finished it to be honest, but I have a feeling after writing this my nostalgia will kick in and I’ll rebuy it from Xbox Live Arcade, where its available now. Check it out there, I’m sure there’s a demo.
This post was written by John on Thursday, July 30th, 2009. He has 476 posts on this blog.
Call me crazy, but this photo look similar….
…with the one I took a while back while at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park:
Could be wrong, but it seems like that was my shot of Nomming Rock that I wrote about a few weeks ago. Just an observation 
. I go to this and the ICHC all the time so it was a cool find.
Random news, but anyway, I’m working on a game with guns and shooting. And elevators. And its not Elevator Action, if you remember that game (I never played it).
This post was written by John on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009. He has 476 posts on this blog.
Tags: noming rock
This weekend I went to the Getty Villa near Malibu, CA. Home to ancient artwork and artifacts, this place was engulfed in Roman and Greek culture. I loved it. And I took pictures, of course .
Although we had to sit in traffic for about 2 hours to get there and back it was gorgeous and we’ll probably be going back.
Check out all the photos here.
This post was written by John on Monday, July 27th, 2009. He has 476 posts on this blog.
Tags: getty villa, weekend
Another week, another concept. This one is Warp Shot. Check it out.
Like I said in a previous post, I love teleporters. Don’t think this will be the last.
This post was written by John on Friday, July 24th, 2009. He has 476 posts on this blog.