Facets of BrettW

State of the Union 2012

BrettW — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:49:15 +0000

Well holy mackerel, 2012 has hit and we’re already 12.5% of the way through. I’ve hit the ground running and am chugging away at my projects. I thought it might be a good time to tell everyone what I’m up to. Cognitive Discodance First order of business is setting up Cognitive Discodance, the official name [...]

Protecting against Fast Followers

BrettW — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:41 +0000

Recently indie group Nimblebit called out games giant Zynga for copying their game Tiny Tower pretty blatantly. Zynga employees call this “fast following” – someone achieves success in the mobile or social games arena, and Zynga acquires or produces pretty much the same game. There are some nasty specifics to the Nimblebit saga, but I [...]

Photo Review: Saints Row The Third

BrettW — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:56:04 +0000

I have a confession to make. I’ve been working on a review of Saints Row The Third for a little while now, but Christmas got in the way. I’ve 100% the game and loved every minute of it. However my long form review was more-or-less captured by ex-RPS writer Kieron Gillen in his Eurogamer review. [...]

Coming soon…

BrettW — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:07:16 +0000

Review: Star Wars The Old Republic Beta Weekend

BrettW — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:56:31 +0000

I got to play Star Wars The Old Republic for a weekend, and I'm sharing my impressions of a very expensive, very ambitious, but ultimately conservative game.

Rage subsides

BrettW — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:30:19 +0000

I finished Rage last night. I give my final impressions and share a whole bunch of pictures.

Review: Rage

BrettW — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:14:10 +0000

I review Rage, for good and bad.

Getting That Balance

BrettW — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:11:41 +0000

Recently I’ve been working on The Day After, my board-game that became a board-game themed PC game. Primarily I’ve been writing the scripting language for it so I can start sewing in game mechanics and messing around with things. I’m using a scripting language because you can iterate (and debug) quicker that way. Anyway, working [...]

Quick note

BrettW — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:08:50 +0000

Hey guys, I’m not dead, just busy with non-video-game-related stuff. Things will be back to normal soon, and when that I’ll post a bunch of reviews to games I’ve played recently, and unveil some exciting new stuff for The Day After. Thanks for your patience!

A retro-spective on Outpost

BrettW — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:24:39 +0000

I’ve been hanging out at my folks’ place for a little while and the other day, amidst welding machines, hammers older than me, and dog biscuits, I found my old copy of Outpost, still in its original box. Outpost was an old Sierra game from 1994 (or thereabouts). It’s interesting to see how the artifact [...]