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The world of unknown games

Posted on 12th Sep 2012 at 07:49 by David Hing with 13 comments

David Hing
Slouching awkwardly against one of the hand rails on the train during my daily commute the other week I found myself captivated by a gentleman sat in my line-of-sight playing something on his iPad. Until his gaze flicked up causing me to nonchalantly drift my eyes away and pretend I was just glaring at everything in the carriage like a normal person and not just him, I had been transfixed by whatever it was that he was playing because of one simple fact: I had no idea what it was.

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Tags android, indie, ios, mobile

Free Games I Like: Choice of Broadsides

Posted on 28th May 2010 at 11:02 by Joe Martin with 40 comments

Joe Martin
You can do a lot with the written word and I find it endlessly interesting that even the most beautiful and graphically demanding games are often judged on the quality of the script. GTA IV was praised for its serious story before anyone remarked on how big the world was, while Crysis is often slammed for the way the experience is wounded by awful dialogue.

With that in mind, please don’t be put off that my latest favourite freebie is a text-only adventure, because if you dismiss it out of hand then you’d be missing out on a great little title. A word can make a thousand pictures and all that.

Essentially a multiple choice adventure, Choice of Broadsides casts you as a young officer in the navy of Albion, a fictional country which is basically a stand-in for England. At the start of the game you’re but a junior shipmate, but through your actions you get the chance to woo eligible ladies, orchestrate naval battles, deal with mutinies and do all the other stuff that an 18th Century naval officer would do.

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Tags adventure, android, free, free games i like, i'm on a boat, interactive fiction, iphone, pirates

Four Men, a Robot and a Volcano

Posted on 6th May 2010 at 13:05 by Antony Leather with 18 comments

Antony Leather
As some of you may know, I recently got stuck in Spain when I flew out to Madrid to cover the Campus Party Europe event and the volcano erupted in Iceland. What was meant to be a 24 hour trip soon turned into a nightmare, as I'd only packed enough clothes and gear for one day.

This is the story of how I got home. It involves one of the most advanced robots in the world.

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Tags android, campus party europe, volcano
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