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Mind Wall chosen as IGF China finalist

Oct 4th, 2009 by Seth

I’m happy to announce that our game Mind Wall has been chosen as one of the eight finalists in the 1st Independent Games Festival at GDC China!

Unfortunately after some last minute scrambling (we were told a few days ago, and it starts the 11th?!) it looks like we won’t be able to attend.

If you happen to live in/near Shanghai and would consider helping us out or could even just take some pictures of the event, please drop me a line.

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Interview with The Current Gamer

Oct 4th, 2009 by Seth

I (virtually) sat down with the Current Gamer to talk about our games, what’s in the oven, and the iPhone market. Check it out here!

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In Japan: New sushi restaurant is high tech gambling fun for all

Sep 18th, 2009 by Seth

This continues my series of articles about Japan. I do these randomly if I see something worth mentioning.

There is a new sushi restaurant in town called Kura-Zushi (くら寿司). (Watch their tv commercials here and here)

It’s not the first sushi place I’ve seen where each table has a digital screen that lets you order food – but it adds something interesting to the mix which will drive your kids insane!

Each table has a sort of slot machine game where you can win little toys in plastic bobbles called gachapon – instead of using money, the currency is empty plates.

Movie of this happening here.

Each plate is chipped and monitored. If you use the touch panel to order a special request, it comes on a red container and notifies you when it gets close. (Movie)

Old sushi is automatically thrown away. (Movie)

Some other things about this place:

All tables are non-smoking
No wasabi on anything (kid & wimpy adult friendly)
It’s on 182 near Lotteria
It has a machine that can pour you a mug of beer, do you really need more than that?

Recommended!

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New Free game: The Hardest Text Game In The World

Sep 15th, 2009 by Seth

Last weekend there was a mini-LD™ coding challenge issued by the legendary GirlFlash – make a game using wikipedia.

So here was my idea: Grab a random page and tell the user the name of it. Have links from that page falling down the screen (mixed with links from other pages) and see if the user can click the right ones.

So I made that.

Well, let me tell you, it doesn’t work all that great. The two big problems are:

A “totally random wikipedia page” is too hard, you would literally need encyclopedic knowledge to have a chance at 99% of the crazy things it chooses. This could actually be worked around, like I could limit it to ‘80′s comedy movies‘ for instance… but.. meh. I sort of like the zany and crazy things it comes up with.
Even when the subject is interesting just dumbly grabbing links from the page willy-nilly ends up being ridiculous. It’s just too crazy.

With all that said, here is an updated version for Windows if you want to give it a shot.

Download the zip here. Can you score 100 points?

If you like the idea of using Wikipedia for games, be sure to check out the other mini-LD stuff, it’s quite cool.

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