The Dream Machine

Clay. A whole freaking click-and-point adventure out of clay.

The Dream Machine is very relaxing. That was my first impression.

Starting you do on an island, there you dig some worms and make some tasty fish.

Then the bell rings, and you're a guy moved with your pregnant girl friend in some
apartment in a new town.

It is well made, very relaxing atmosphere, I played it until the point where the first "Do I have to search everything again" moment arrived. But I surly will play this on, cause not only the optic, but also the atmosphere promises something different.

Full Mojo Rampage - Full what de whaaaaat ?

When the game in my steam library "Full Mojo Rampage" updated itself today, I thought, hey funny name what the fuck is that ?

It is a 2014 isometric diablo-like game with neat-da-sweat vector graphics which reminded me totally of  this game whose name I forgot but who is looking exactly more or less like this and has two parts and was very successful.

Full Mojo Rampage has a mild-dark humor that reminds me of Secret of Monkey Island, well, also because it has a neat voodoo theme.

As far as the game play goes its default, shooting with mouse, some special attacks that need reload time, looting and exploring all that stuff.

What really impressed me was the music actually, real neat tunes somehow not fitting therefore enhancing the mood of this game. Interesting technique !

Well I died in the forth level and had to start from the start. Really, from ALL the way back like four levels. That actually broke my play motivation, but I will try again !

Direct Marketing on Twitter - Well is that ? I like a tweet of the dev of KEL-Reaper of Entropy

I like the surrealist humor, a bit like Terry Prachett XD

I like this tweet about ehm...that when we gamer look at a nice forest we ask which engine, even if it is a real picture. You know. The old joke. But the dev (I think a she) did it in a funny variation, and I like variations, so I looked her up, and she did the game "KEL-Reaper of Entrpy"

Here I got stuck. Hmm.

"Ever wonderd when yoou would wake up as the skeleton not the freaking hero ?" - Yes, indeed. We all did. So this short description got me, and even I know nothing about it, I thought, hey three euros, thats worth the surprise factor !

Besides from the quick look I took it looked good.

It is around 300 mb, and yikes, it is Unreal DK. I dont like their stupid EULA. Ok. Let us do that.


The game looks very nice, the animations are good. For some reason my skeletton is a chrismas skeleeton, maybe thats cause it is chrismas. Not sure.

The humor of the game is my taste. Yeah.  But, I interact with a flower patch and got stucked, could not leave the menu. Not sure what to do, but I will certainly give this one another try !

Shroud of the Avatar - Early Access on Steam

Finally. Mr. Garriot and his team brought the virtual predecessor of Ultima to Steam Early Access.

I played it for two hours so far, and was, well, it is promising. And since I am a HUGE...HUUUUUGE Ultima fan since I was 15, loooooong ago, longer than you might think (yes), I will make it to a continous series on this ... blog.

It is all, and you get three notices of that before you actually are entering the game, it is all PRE-ALPHA, so keep that in mind, dear writer (me), before you apply your sharp observation skills to crush your precious diamond in the rough.

Thank you.

Uhhhh Uhhhhhhh UHHHHH UHHHH -A Reckless Disregard for Game Names

I am afraid the pool of good names for computer games is getting smaller every time an indie company opens up, so yeah, mostly every ten seconds.

But what you know, theres always someone who is using this to his advantage : "AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity" from Dejobaan Games, LLC.

I stumpled on it cause it is one of the first games I know of made with the new not yet available to the public Unity3D Version 5 !

The welcome screen and the music and the slogan "We make computer games since several hundred years" is promising, so let me have a look.

[ AFTER FIRST RUN ]

I like the design. The game itself. Well it has more the appeal of a graphic demo form a programmer student in 2005 to me.

You fall down somewhere and have to keep close to objects. I didnt play much longer because hmm I dont know it is kinda...stupid ? Like really stupid ?

What I am trying to say is, I like stupid, but I need something to justify the stupidiy. A story. One NEW idea. One thing that keeps me going. Just to fall down and hug and kiss some meshes, I do not know dear Dejobaan Games.

The design is well done, some good ideas, awesome music.

But thats about it. NEEEEXT !

Pixel Piracy

Yes, since I had exactly 5,02 euro in my steam wallet and since I really am a big fan of Terraria, I thought yeah, let me buy Pixel Piracy. It's from the same team that did Terraria.

You play a pirate captain, and that's about all I know. And you micro manage your pirate crew. And fight other pirates. So well, so aha. I go blindly into it. It "looked" cool.

So cute .... what ? The "So cute" Humble Flash Bundle

Yes. I know. I am a Humble Bundle Slave Bitch. But then again.

The Bundle I got now has the the all-saying name "So Cute" and is a freaking collection of senseless cuteness. They claim. Let us have an open mind look at that cute promise, shall we, my dear ?


1. Girls like Robots
2. Where is my Heart
3. Woodle Tree Adventures
4. Two Tribes
5. Triple Town

To finish with the R.P.S. Bundle ...

So let me treat the not yet talked about games of the Rock, Shotgun, Paper Humble Bundle...with the final conclusion, of course.

6. AI War: Fleet Command
7. Teleglitch: Die More Edition

I wanted to go out. But since I am fucked up again I am gonna test this Rock,Paper & Shotgun Weekly Humble Bundle

The guys from R.P.S. are the reason I am...not let me rephrase that before I go to far...they inspired me....no...not better....they ignited my interesst in the game sector after years of more or less abstinence.Their way of...short : They were my heroes for a short time, then they were my most loved crititcs, now they have strange advertisment that leads to even stranger pages. But hell, we all need money. And they still have the decency left I loved about them quite a while ago.

So much for that. To the games.

1. Dungeons of Dredmor
2. Audiosurf
3. Armageddon Empires
4. World of Goo
5. Amnesia - The dark descent

Quick-And-Go : God'em'up....why not. Example : Reus

I can hardly resist these 1,99 Steam mini sales when the game looks at least promising.

So in this case. Reus. Later, I learned that this is a God'em'up. Why ? Cause you control four (so far) gods and manipulate a planet so that life and little villages can prosper.

I played it for an hour or so. It is quite fun, when you like combination effects of flower's and animals and minerals. The graphics are ok and left enough space for fantasy. The music is smoothing and changes often enough so it is actually a help while you move one of your gods from one end of the planet to the other.

There is no time acceleration possibility. That is at least at the mid start of the game a bit annoying.

What really troubled me is that when you open the ingame browser wiki page on steam, there was only an advertisement for e-cigarettes. Lol. 

Ever bought a game just because of ONE sound ? XD

I bought "Little Cells" in the Humble Store. Someone on twitter recommended it.

So I watched the video and it is a game about cells, it reminds me vaguely of the first levels of Spore, but it has this "plopping" sound when the cells divide. And exactly this sound made me buy it. XD

And I like biology. And cells. And dividing. Annnd it was only 3,5 euro. And it will be for Android, too.

So let me install it. It is only 30 MB.

I am gonna be rich - Games for rich, dominant and aggressive Women ?!

(Attention, this article is partial very ironic and yet very concerned)

We need computer games for one group that is the rising star in our post-material world :

Aggressive and dominant women !

Previously computer games were often the valve for young and adolescent and of course up to all ages and state of minds of integrated men, who did not engage in social status wars but needed to act out their inner rage and power need.

That was a HUGE market.

But it seems we have a market that is not yet fully taken : Violent computer games for aggressive and dominant women, where the boys (and girls ?) are sex objects !

I really like the stuff that Anita Sarkeesian and other are doing, and it seems we need computer games made for them as well as for the old market of computer gamers.

Well, that is changing as well, and as the money now lies with individualised people the interests are much more complex to satisfy than in the good old mass-market days, aren't they ?

A thing that is going on my nerves is that I am so tired of the stereotyped way criminal and dangerous situation are shown in computer games. I was in danger. It is NOT like in GTA. It can be similar. But it is something completely different. 

Are headache and bad mood good basics to get a first impression of a F2P FPS ? Warface.

CURRENT RATING : BORING LINEAR FPS (FREE TO PAY TRASH)

Who wants to pay for fresh old clothes ?

Yes I have a terrible headache and I am in a really bad mood (cause of the headache and the bad software that Samsung makes for its tablets). And yes, probably not the best scenario to get a first impression of a fresh beta FPS.

While the whole world except Crytek thinks Crytek is broken, they release a free to p(l)ay FPS over Steam. Warface. The trailer looks nice. The story is that about our world gone totally openly neo-cyberpunk-fashism-money-dicatorship-capitalism BUT you of course are playing those who fight against the capitalist bastards. (That's why Crytek broke ??)