Finally, a building simulator that pushes the mobile genre of games an evolutionary step forward. Pixel People, by Lambda Mu (and published by Chillingo), abandons the degenerating game play mechanics of cleaning the city or producing candy bars in factories and having to wait a twenty-four hour period for the results. Pixel People even includes pixelated sprites that [...]
American Corporations Will Have It Their Way: The Globalization of American Intellectual Property Rights This essay examines the influence American corporations have on global Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) decision making. Specifically, I will discuss these corporations involvement in the drafting of TRIPS during the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) meetings, and the westernization [...]
Released a few weeks ago, Time Surfer by Kumobius hasn’t attracted the attention it deserves. This saddens me. When I open up Time Surfer, I’m transported to the end of the universe which feels like its been inspired by a long running Japanese Anime series (I’d wager Naruto or One Piece lengths). Time Surfer is [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s recent movie, “Django Unchained” has sparked controversy, if you haven’t noticed. And it’s not just the excessive violence and blood stains that is having people talk. We’re all used to Tarantino’s artistic eye for blood sprays and bullet physics by now. The talk I’m hearing at work, at school, and on city transit [...]
A quick introduction… I’ve been wanting to do something Minecraft related on Loneswing for a long time, and finally decided to do a narrative-guide hybrid of the Minecraft Pocket Edition. Minecraft is one of those deep, complicated games where the player learns something new each time they load their world. In this series I will [...]
And here I was convinced that PSY had retired Gangnam Style when the mobile game Gangnam Style City is released on the app store by Voon. Another entry in the mall-crowded endless runner genre of games. Dance across roof tops, in what I presume is an 8-bit rendered Korean metropolis as PSY himself, collecting all [...]
Bastion is a fitting title to celebrate the hyped 2012 apocalypse (that never happened) since the game’s story is about a world after the Calamity (apocalypse). The kid, a white haired young man, scavenges the ruins of the world in search of shards to repair the Bastion in hopes of either resetting the world or [...]
With all the radio stations playing Christmas music twenty-four-seven, it should be that my Christmas spirit is boosted. It’s quite the opposite actually– it’s like the spirit has been locked outside the house for so long that the frosty air numbed its ability to enjoy the snowflakes. I think this yearly phenomenon is a curse [...]
Thursday night, December 20th, I arranged a camp chair to face the front door and sat. A six-pack of beer at my feet, and my Dad’s hunting rifle laying on my lap. I wasn’t sitting there because I actually believed the world was going to end. No, I was being cautious. It was the other [...]
My first death occurred when I was incinerated by a ghost that looked like the baddies in Pac-Man. The second death happened when I was struck by lightening by a twenty feet tall made who was having a bad day. The third, and most frustrating death, happened when I set my iPad down to answer [...]