June 30, 2015

A few thoughts on Early Access and Kickstarter Projects

I’m a big proponent and supporter of both Steam Early Access and Kickstarter projects, but they aren’t created equal and not every game has the same level of success in the development process. I’ve backed several projects and so far, most are progressing very well. Some good projects worth mentioning are Assetto Corsa, Plague Inc, Shroud of the Avatar and SpinTires. However, not all of them have been gems. Many start off great, then hit some sort of wall and everything grinds to a halt. I’ve had this happen with a couple of games such as Next Car Game: Wreckfest and Victory: Age of Racing. Both had solid demos going, but now they’re languishing. From all the comments, Victory is dead and everyone assumes the same for Wreckfest. Towns would probably be the worst example of an Early Access/Greenlight game gone wrong. It got a lot of support from the community and had a lot of sales. Then the devs […]

June 24, 2015

Windward – Piracy, Commissions, Treasure Hunts and Exploration

Who doesn’t dream of piracy? No, not hooking up a Torrent client and synching your machine with the Internet, but commandeering a boat and taking to the high seas, trading in spices, goods and liquor. Well, it seems Windward by Tasharen Entertainment Inc will let me do some of these things and you don’t have to be a master at sword play to make progress. During the Steam sale I picked up an Indie game just recently out of Early Access, Windward. It had an interesting description of – fighting pirates, trading with towns, doing quests or simply exploring. Oh, so I’m not a pirate, but actually working to stop piracy. All right, that’s a little different, I can play along with that. So I started off my adventure by aimlessly circling my inlet looking for the right direction of travel. I sorted myself out and began strafing the beaches wherein I picked up lost boxes of cargo and loot. […]

June 21, 2015

End of Summer Monster Game

So it was a completely ridiculous game, but still amusing. I thought my first couple of entries in the Steam Monster game were pretty good, but this last one was unreal. The game I got pulled into had players who were utterly out of control and hell bent on setting every record Steam had to offer. We surpassed a million levels and I earned trillions in gold. And besides playing this silly little thing, I bought a bunch of new games at a massive discount. I got a couple of Indie titles and picked up some nice DLC. I’m not sure which game I want to play first, but I have so much to keep me entertained, that’s for damn sure.

June 17, 2015

Steam Monster Summer Game Gone Mad!

So here we are less than an hour into the new game of the day and we’ve already completed half the levels we completed today and over400B in gold is sitting in my account. Things are moving so fast I can barely pick a target. And since we’re moving so fast, I don’t even know what to spend all this gold on. I know the upgrade path I want to go with, but there is so much chaos, I can barely concentrate. This mob is serious!

June 17, 2015

Level 20,000 in the Steam Summer Game

So, I thought getting to level 7,000+ was pretty damn impressive and walking away with 15,000M+ in gold was pretty cool. That was until we ended today with over 20,000 levels and over 130B in gold. And that was the third time I hit 130B in gold during the event. I upgraded dozens of weapons and defenses during the day and night giving me massive HP and DPS. Ok, it’s an utterly dorky game, but somehow it’s still amusing and if you let yourself get into it, it’ll take up a lot of your time. So, silly as hell, but yet I’m strangely drawn to it. Go figure.

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