Mattiesworld

I discovered this great game site: The Independent Gaming Source which is all about indie games. While those games really feel back-to-basics, they also feel back-to-roots; you know, what gaming really is about. While I admit to be colored by some nostalgia, it really makes you ponder what good games really are about.

Due to the size of big game companies and the money involved, refreshing game concepts are too risky to try out. But this doesn’t affect the indie game developer who has nothing to loose. So we actually shouldn’t be surprised to find some very entertaining game concepts in the indie camp, be it maybe somewhat less polished or technically advanced as its ‘commercial’ siblings.

I just played “You made it” (runs fine under linux/wine) and although the concept is so simple, I was surprised how addictive it was and how I loved the added difficulty induced by a non clearing backbuffer.

yes, if you’re concerned about global warming and feel guilty about that webserver that’s running all day 24/7, you can do something about it nowadays.

(referenced site is in Dutch)

I was just having another look at the airing start date for Battlestar Gallactica season four and was pleased to finally see some lift-off. But I made another shocking discovery: it seems prior to season 3 (which I am watching right now), there was a series of official short webisodes filling in the gap between season 2 and 3! Not that nothing major happens there, but you know, it’s scary to know you would actually have missed a second of battlestar’s gallacticness.

Anyway, of course, when you want to view this outside of US of A, you get a nice message telling you it’s not allowed. Luckily, we can always count on a few friendly americans to share all the goodness.

Last weekend, we had a casino evening for team building event. I managed to make a quite quick gain from 20 dollar to 200, but eventually my net win was only 20 dollar even after pouring in another 80 That’s gambling I guess

Anyway, if you ever play this Monty Hall thing, be sure to always switch (via andrasj)