The Sims is a franchise of life simulation video games originally developed by Maxis, and later by Electronic Arts (EA) after they acquired the Maxis studio. The franchise was a spin-off of Maxis’ SimCity series of games, which saw players design cities and respond as a simulation would unfold based on their choices. The premise of The Sims was that, rather than looking at the entire city at โฆ
Came across this new-to-me Wordle-like game, this time with a daily logic puzzle: Murdle . A good bit of fun ๐
A neat little detective story, investigating the origins of one of those online urban legends, in this case that a memory error that appeared when you quit Wing Commander I was simply rewritten to say “Thank you for playing Wing Commander!” instead of being fixed.
๐ ๐ง๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ค๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฉ ๐๐ณ๐ฏ ยท๐ข๐ป๐๐ฉ๐ค-๐ค๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฝ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ช๐ ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐!
For anyone interested in playing a fun Wordle-like game to practice the Shavian alphabet, this game here is exactly what you need!
So, Nintendo Australia has come out with a surprisingly moving ad for the new Legend of Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom, and apparently โ as this article reveals โ the ad was based on a real Japanese-language review left on the previous Zelda game. For when life is an endless chain of work and sleep and work and sleep and work, and only Zelda can remind you that you’re still alive.
Monopoly is a board game notorious for breaking families and friend groups apart. Games are generally pretty long, and from the point in the game that someone has clearly bought up more streets than others (i.e. they “get a monopoly”) it’s not really in any doubt who’s going to win, meaning that games are often pretty tedious, as well.
The original version of Monopoly was โฆ
The writer of the ending to Minecraft (the End Poem) never actually signed his rights away to the work, and now he’s surrendering it to the public domain. Here he tells the story, together with some commentary on how badly copyright law screws artists. It’s worth the read.
For the last few days I’ve been playing Idle Acorns . It’s an idle/incremental game for iOS with a bright, cartoony aesthetic. Probably the best thing about it is that there are no ads and no IAPs: just pay your A$2.99 upfront and you’re good to go! ๐
It’s really good to have open while writing, because every time I hit a momentary block I can spam-press “Shake Tree” until I get an idea of what to go on with, instead of doing something like opening up Reddit and getting side-tracked reading posts. There’s something to be said for mindless ways to occupy yourself with like that!
Update: I realised the game’s also available for macOS , if you’d prefer to play it that way!
Article about a long-running (30 years!) project to keep an MUD game going based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld universe. Particularly cool that Pratchett himself gave them his blessing, so long as they didn’t turn a profit ๐
Liked this article about Cult of the Lamb (which I haven’t played myself, but I know people on the timeline really like it ๐).
I find it interesting that its standard difficulty level adapts to the skill level of the player, because that makes it much more accessible to more people. Sounds like the devs gave real thought to this, and that’s awesome imo.
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; sheโs also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.