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The aesthetics of blowing stuff up from a first-person vs. top-down perspective
The recent release of Valve’s free Alien Swarm got me inspired to write about the difference in aesthetics and gameplay between first-person and top-down shooters. (One could say this is a think-piece...
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My Vote For the Best EVAR: the early 90s
As others have noted, there is a challenge going on right now among MeFightClub members to name the best game. EVAR. MeFightClub is a group of grown-ups (in both the sense of age but more...
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Musings from an Archaeologist on the Civilization Tech Tree – Part I
I am a gamer, but in real life I earn my living as an archaeologist. In a three part series of posts I am going to put on my professional hat (a fedora?) and consider the tech trees from the...
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Musings from an Archaeologist on the Civilization Tech Tree – Part II
In the previous post I started discussing the technology tree in the Civilization games from the point of view of an archaeologist. In this post I want to point out that the Civilization tech tree is...
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This is the third and last in a series (first, second) of posts where I look at the technology tree in the game Civilization from my perspective as a professional archaeologist. If you have not read...
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Favorite Flash Games
The last few years have been something of a golden age of casual gaming. Widespread development tools plus low cost distribution platforms like Flash made it possible to make games for the web. Many...
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