Author: secondtruth

Over on Tap, the thread I started about Skyrim kind of exploded. Skyrim is obviously somewhat controversial and as a game of the size that it is, there is so much to discuss that a five-hour preview barely scratches the surface.  I should have realized that before posting, but I did anyway, because it’s good to…

Not that you needed to hear it from me, but, the top-rated comp games have been announced, and you can go here to find out more. Congratulations to the winners… heck, to all the participants, because you made and released a game! The top-rated game turned out to be Taco Fiction, a game about which…

So last night like thousands of other people I was up a bit late playing Skyrim on Steam. I was waiting around to — …you know, a lot of people don’t have this yet, so I’ll buffer just a little and put in a spoiler tag. I’m not sure how to say what part of…

I started playing Skyrim yesterday! Then I wrote a bit about it, at Tap-Repeatedly. I might chronicle Cultural Cat Girl’s adventures here in greater specificity, but only if I find the time between actually playing the game. I am a huge fan of taking screenshots, though.

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M is likely to be the last comp game that I review, because I can’t figure out how to get Ted Paladin and the Case of the Abandoned House to run right, and the comp itself is coming to a close very soon. I admit I had a small…

I don’t really like this very much, but it’s taken me about an hour to convince myself that that is not my fault. My first instinct when something is fairly well-written is to blame myself instead of the design, but in the case of this game, it really probably is the design. This is kind…

I actually played this one a few days ago, but it was so underwhelming I forgot to post about it. I’ll spoil-cut anyway because I am polite. All this game really amounts to is a series of three visual puzzles that are in a text format. They’re basically like a ball you roll through a…

Another untested game. I’ll play it anyway and tell you what I think! I don’t think much, really. This game plays as if someone realized suddenly that they could set a game to ship directions instead of compass directions, so they just had to do that. Beyond that there isn’t much to it. Go here,…

It’s… it’s a roguelike? Challenge Accepted It took me a few tries before I got the hang of it. The first time, I got all the way to the last boss and had pretty good equipment, but couldn’t figure out how to damage him. It turns out the “concentrate” command is pretty crucial to your…