If you are anything like me, you roll into work on Monday morning, maybe do the caffeine thing, see if anything is on fire, and then proceed to distract yourself with web links. I’m from the Internet, and I’m here to help. So I’m going to try and do a recurring Monday morning post with [...]

(In North America, anyways – the patch already dropped in Japan and Yurop. Why do they stagger game patches like that?)
I’ve been waiting for this one myself, purposefully putting off playing Eden until this patch hits. Much like PixelJunk Monsters (and my attendant whining to the creators), I love the game, but find it a [...]

Being the swell guy that he is, Dylan replied to my email (in the previous post) about the difficulty levels of his games:
Hello Ryan,
Heheh, your mail almost made me lose my tea all over the PC keyboard.
You’ll be pleased to know that one thing we will add to Monsters in an upcoming patch is a [...]

TO: dylan@q-games.com
FROM: nerfgun@citizengame.ca
SUBJECT: cores, soft and hard
Dear Dylan,
You are killing me slowly and ruining my relationship. Ok, maybe that’s a bit harsh. You are slightly maiming my psyche and irritating my fiancée.
The problem is your core. It is too hard. You take this core of hardness and apply it to whatever strange collection of superhip [...]

Eden seems slightly less abstract now, by a micron. As it turns out you are playing a bit of pollen, sweeping through this 2D, procedurally-generated forest, making things grow. Except, your bit of pollen can swing around like Spider-man, and cause branches to grow ahead of it’s path. I think. Oh and it’s got co-op. [...]

The Games Developer Conference is well under way in gay old San Fran and the tidbits are starting to trickle out.
Q-Games has done some really interesting stuff in the DLC space lately. PixelJunk Monsters is a huge hit, coming as the only credible “tower defence” type game on consoles that I know of. The [...]