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Tag Archives: Games
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, problems launching, problems playing, and windows 7
This drove me completely freaking crazy for the past few days. Hopefully my pain can help somebody else. After dealing with the incredible disappointment of Elemental, Stardock’s newest game (a subject I will probably go into further detail on the … Continue reading
Diminishing Returns in Game Design: Exponential Decay and Convergent Series
Finally, another exciting episode of NAME… THAT… DIMINISHING RETURNS FORMULA!!! Today we look at exponential decay and the convergent series, both of which are in my mind the only limit-based formula that should be considered for 99% of situations.
Diminishing Returns in Game Design: Roots and Negative Exponents
Okay, first off, this was supposed to be up a good while ago, but a combination of real life and work got in the way far more effectively than I had planned. Anyway, today’s diminishing returns formula is roots.
Diminishing Returns in Game Design: The Logarithm
For the first topic in programming a diminishing returns formula, I present: logarithms!
Diminishing Returns in Game Design
Diminishing what?!? Okay, first of all, what is this concept of “diminishing returns”? Put simply, “diminishing returns” is the concept of getting less out of some system the more times you put in a constant amount. In the real world, … Continue reading
CBS bot for Magic Online (mtgo) publicly proven guilty!
Score one for the good guys I’d like to thank everybody on the forums who helped out in the investigation, and I hope this can be a lesson to greedy bot authors everywhere.
Postal 2 vs. GTA: Vice City
It’s a long time coming for me, but I’ve finally gotten around to really playing one of the 3D Grand Theft Auto games recently. Steam may have its annoyances, but as I pointed out in my middle-class piracy articles, the … Continue reading
Twilight of the Arnor — Unhappy Campers
I just finished talking about my first full game of GC2:TotA, and how much I enjoy all the new content. Critics seem to agree – Metacritic shows a 95% average rating for this expansion, and gamerankings shows an average of … Continue reading
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Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor – Second Impressions
Well… it only took me about a month to finish my first game of the official version of TotA, which isn’t terrible considering (a) I have very little spare time, (b) I chose to play on the new map size, … Continue reading
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Twilight of the Arnor officially released!
All right, I’m a couple days late, but one of my all-time favorite games, Galactic Civilizations 2, has just released what I believe to be the most impressive expansion pack ever, Twilight of the Arnor. I’ve played with the beta … Continue reading