Videogame Biscuit

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Entries for October, 2007

What makes games fun?

Interesting article on Game Producer about seven things that make games fun. So, what is it that makes games fun to play?
1. Collecting stuff
Definitely! This is what made the Diablo games so great. The graphics weren’t too spectacular, the gameplay repetitive as hell, but the ability to collect and trade all sorts of kick ass […]

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Wasabi Defense progress 10-05

I’m more or less done with the code for setting the display options. The trickiest part was adjusting the aspect ratio for widescreen displays. I struggled with it for quite a while, only to find out it was actually very easy to solve. You can play the game in fullscreen or windowed mode. In windowed […]

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A short update…

Okay, I realize there hasn’t been a real update in more than a week, but there’s a good excuse… I mean, explanation! First of all, part of the work I’m doing on this version is behind-the-scene stuff. I need to figure out how to read and write configuration files - something that wasn’t included in […]

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