Funny how I take most of my game kicks on independant games lately...
Cursor 10, Grid, Audiosurf... (which is not to say that I don't loooooove my Wii anymore...)
But there are a lot of people that are now (again should I say...) able to develop their ideas on their own and that's where you get the most creative concepts, instead of the millionth first person shooter that just looks a bit better than the last one.
Anyway, this one is a biggie: http://www.toribash.com/
This is (and I mean it) the fighting game I have been waiting for all my gaming life. And I'm a fighting game geek.
A turn based fight where you actually control each part of your fighter's body to make him move. So to punch, you will flex the elbow, contract & extend the relevant pecs, rotate the torso, etc...
That and the fact that you can see your opponent doing the same thing so you have to adapt your move to his! All this 10 frames at a time!
This is the biggest geekgasm I had in a while...
The learning curve is quite huge, but just seeing what's possible when you know what you're doing is motivating enough.
And it's just too funny to see the replay of you're fighter just landing like a turd when you didn't control your move... (^_^)
They're developping it for the WiiWare... I can't wait!!!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Songsmith.
Songsmith is a Microsoft tool that generates music over a voice track.
People obviously thought about putting proper singing on it and it gives...
...this:
This is f#cking hilarious.
People obviously thought about putting proper singing on it and it gives...
...this:
This is f#cking hilarious.
Wazza 8 years later...
I know it's a bit late for this (I was busy finishing Grid), but still it's good fun...
Monday, January 12, 2009
2008 Cinema round up...
Well what a year...
I went to watch just under 20 movies, but no less than 5 totally blew me away... And 6 other nearly did!
So in a way this year's top 10 comes naturally...
Here it is:
1) WALL·E
2) The Dark Knight
3) No Country for Old Men
4) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5) Wanted
6) Speed Racer
7) Hellboy II: The Golden Army
8) Iron Man
9) Burn After Reading
10) Zack and Miri Make a Porno
As usual the order is actually quite arbitrary and could change if I was in a different frame of mind...
Right now, Wall-E has to come 1st. Such an accessible, cute, poetic & scary as hell dystopia vision is just unbelievable.
Then comes the Dark Knight, with its epic construction and deconstruction of a myth.
To see No Country For Old Men been knocked like that to 3rd place is a shame. It's true that in terms of scope one could find much in common with the Dark Knight, although it's theme is violence... Yet as of now that's how it feels it should fit.
Sweeney Todd then, with an incredible return from Tim Burton in the darkest places...
In 5 I still stand by the sheer awesomeness of Wanted I can't wait to see it again.
I also stand by Speed Racer, glorious movie under LSD, just forget the monkey, or the monologues (they're far shorter than in Matrix anyway), it's just too cool not to enjoy!
In 7 & 8 come the "other" superheroes, both at an end of their spectrum: Hellboy in the gothic imagery of Del Toro & Ironman as the blueprint for a perfect Marvel adaptation.
In last positions come the "funny ones". I know I'm caught at the trap of letting the funny movies behind the "serious ones"... I think it's more that this year the serious movies are just too good.
Anyway eventhough Burn After Reading kind of follows a "Coen recipe", it's still a damn good film that shouldn't stay in the shadow of the darker No Country...
Last but not least Kevin Smith having people make a porno is just a must see... :)
So there you go. I wish I could have squeezed Pineapple Express in there, but this is a top 10, you have to make sacrifices.
So 2009 has a lot to do to match 2008, we'll see how it goes but with movies like Watchmen or Benjamin Button coming up, I'm quite confdent I'll still have my fix anyway...
I went to watch just under 20 movies, but no less than 5 totally blew me away... And 6 other nearly did!
So in a way this year's top 10 comes naturally...
Here it is:
1) WALL·E
2) The Dark Knight
3) No Country for Old Men
4) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5) Wanted
6) Speed Racer
7) Hellboy II: The Golden Army
8) Iron Man
9) Burn After Reading
10) Zack and Miri Make a Porno
As usual the order is actually quite arbitrary and could change if I was in a different frame of mind...
Right now, Wall-E has to come 1st. Such an accessible, cute, poetic & scary as hell dystopia vision is just unbelievable.
Then comes the Dark Knight, with its epic construction and deconstruction of a myth.
To see No Country For Old Men been knocked like that to 3rd place is a shame. It's true that in terms of scope one could find much in common with the Dark Knight, although it's theme is violence... Yet as of now that's how it feels it should fit.
Sweeney Todd then, with an incredible return from Tim Burton in the darkest places...
In 5 I still stand by the sheer awesomeness of Wanted I can't wait to see it again.
I also stand by Speed Racer, glorious movie under LSD, just forget the monkey, or the monologues (they're far shorter than in Matrix anyway), it's just too cool not to enjoy!
In 7 & 8 come the "other" superheroes, both at an end of their spectrum: Hellboy in the gothic imagery of Del Toro & Ironman as the blueprint for a perfect Marvel adaptation.
In last positions come the "funny ones". I know I'm caught at the trap of letting the funny movies behind the "serious ones"... I think it's more that this year the serious movies are just too good.
Anyway eventhough Burn After Reading kind of follows a "Coen recipe", it's still a damn good film that shouldn't stay in the shadow of the darker No Country...
Last but not least Kevin Smith having people make a porno is just a must see... :)
So there you go. I wish I could have squeezed Pineapple Express in there, but this is a top 10, you have to make sacrifices.
So 2009 has a lot to do to match 2008, we'll see how it goes but with movies like Watchmen or Benjamin Button coming up, I'm quite confdent I'll still have my fix anyway...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Grid.
Happy new year everyone!!
Let's celebrate this with a flash game!!!
(^_^;
Don't worry, I have also noticed I'm posting pretty much only about those recently, but I've got a good source and there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun, even more so when it's free! ;)
So today it's Grid. I've seen the concept before in an old arcade game whose name I can't remember (it was plumbing related). This is going to bug me.
Anyway. You have to connect every pipe bit to the energy source.
Easy? Not quite.
Great fun!
GRID
(Originally from here.
Let's celebrate this with a flash game!!!
(^_^;
Don't worry, I have also noticed I'm posting pretty much only about those recently, but I've got a good source and there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun, even more so when it's free! ;)
So today it's Grid. I've seen the concept before in an old arcade game whose name I can't remember (it was plumbing related). This is going to bug me.
Anyway. You have to connect every pipe bit to the energy source.
Easy? Not quite.
Great fun!
GRID
(Originally from here.
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