That was pretty fun, and a really unique idea. I’d love to see more levels, or an expanded version with way more words available.

Sorry about the pull quote. I just thought that it summed up one of the big problems: you’re preordering for a game that might not ever happen. That’s not so much “investing” in the company as it is “preordering a game, with no possibility of refund.” I mean, for all the jokes surrounding preorders of [...]

Whenever I read this stuff about “Working at Valve,” I have two conflicting impulses. First, that I really want to work at Valve, and would do anything to get a job with them. And second, that I don’t ever want to work at Valve, because I could never live up to the standards of the [...]

The link’s broken, so here’s the correct one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/charlie-brooker-gay-video-game

As for the content of the article, I was underwhelmed with everything past the headline and sub-headline. Really, anything important in the article is summed up with those four sentences. Everything else is just padding.

I think this one is actually harder than VVVVVV. The weird angle stuff is hard for me to wrap my brain around, and I never seem to slide the way that I’m expecting. I mean, if I stop and think about it slowly, I do get how the angled stuff is supposed to work (I [...]

It just baffles me how many corporations are unable to grasp the idea that if a company was doing well enough to make you want to buy them, it might not be a good idea to force changes upon them. Let them do what they were doing, and provide them whatever support they ask for, [...]

Yeah, I always thought that the whole “Prior creations” thing was a pretty common thing when you went to go work for a corporation. I’m amazed that their HR/hiring person didn’t even mention this once. I do kinda feel for the guy who posted in the comments, though. It can’t be fun to hear your [...]

Yeah, it even seems to be the right dimensions for an ipad app. Might have to pick it up if they ever release it there.

Oh, man! Klik and Play! I remember using that as a kid, up until my hard drive broke, and I’d lost the install disks. I think it’s equal parts hilarious and awesome that they have a monthly contest to make a Klik and Play game in 2 hours. I might have to give some of [...]

I read the theory somewhere that one of the reasons that games based on movies have a hard time succeeding is that you’re introducing another point of potential failure into the mix. If a game is poorly designed, that hurts its sales, because no one wants to play it, no matter how good the movie [...]