Posted by Jan Jacob Mekes under Indie, Reviews
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Puzzle games are hot. Professor Layton, Scribblenauts, World of Goo, even Bejeweled, they’re all making headlines, and rightly so. Puzzle games offer a way to escape from the normal world, where bosses, spouses, parents and others make life miserable, to a world where diabolical puzzles make your life miserable instead. But that’s about the only entertainment they offer. A puzzle book by Sam Loyd, no matter how entertaining, just isn’t the same as a novel by Jules Verne. Similarly, a puzzle game can’t replace the profound entertainment that’s offered by a traditional adventure game… or can it?
Enter Puzzle Bots. Puzzle Bots is an ambitious venture, in that it tries to marry two genres that, although related, at first glance appear not to have very much in common: (more…)
Tags: Adventure Game Studio, AGS, artificial inteligence, Bejeweled, Dave Gilbert, Erin Robinson, John Green, Jules Verne, Nanobots, Professor Layton, Puzzlebots, robots, Sam Loyd, Scribblenauts, The Ivy, The Lively Ivy, Wadjet Eye Games, World of GOO
Everyone knows robots are the coolest thing possible to appear in a cartoon or elsewhere. And in our latest interview we talk about them with Erin Robinson – the inventor of various types of Puzzle Bots and Nanobots. (more…)
Tags: Adventure Game Studio, AGS, artificial inteligence, Blackwell Unbound, Dave Gilbert, Erin Robinson, John Green, Nanobots, Puzzlebots, robots, Spooks, The Ivy, The Lively Ivy, Turing Test, Vince Twelve, Wadjet Eye Games, xiigames
Posted by Igor Hardy under Indie, Reviews
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I’m a big admirer of Czech animated movies. The Czech school of animation really perfected the thing that is so great about this medium – making the most real behave unreal. First, start by reconstructing frame by frame our experiences with objects like plants, machines, and all types of grit. And then twist them around and attribute with a completely different nature. In this kind of manner, the game Machinarium by Jakub Dvorak and Amanita Design offers us a whole city created and inhabited by a population of machines (more…)
Tags: Amanita Design, animated movie, animation, Flash games, Indie Games, Jakub Dvorsky, Machinarium, Pohádky z mechu a kapradí, Questionaut, robots, Rumcajs, Samorost, Stansilav Lem
Puzzle games are hot. Professor Layton, Scribblenauts, World of Goo, even Bejeweled, they’re all making headlines, and rightly so. Puzzle games offer a way to escape from the normal world, where bosses, spouses, parents and others make life miserable, to a world where diabolical puzzles make your life miserable instead. But that’s about the only entertainment they offer. A puzzle book by Sam Loyd, no matter how entertaining, just isn’t the same as a novel by Jules Verne. Similarly, a puzzle game can’t replace the profound entertainment that’s offered by a traditional adventure game… or can it?
