Archive for September, 2009

My New Friend: Flixel

This Month was quite stressful for which reason there wasn’t much activity here. I hope I will have some time for making games in the following days. Speaking of which — I had a little time to play around with the flixel library by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman. It’s very impressive how quick you can achieve [...]

Posted on September 22, 2009 at 6.29 pm by Paul · Permalink · Leave a comment
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“Losing is Fun!”

In an introducing article of the Dwarf Fortress Wiki a contradictory slogan offends the reader who wants to learn how to enjoy the amazingly complex gameplay of Dwarf Fortress: “Losing is Fun!” Todays avarage gamer will probably dismiss this saying as an absurdity. How could losing be fun at all? The only satisfaction in playing [...]

Posted on September 10, 2009 at 12.03 am by Paul · Permalink · One Comment
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