Amara Terra Mia has reviews of several of the games. So does Sarah Morayati. Sarah’s reviews have turned up on Planet-IF, but the Amara Terra Mia ones haven’t.
Category: Reviews
My Husband is a Little Blue Peg
My latest Homer in Silicon column is on a game called Life Quest. I did not like it. It purports to be a life sim, but it makes you follow a very rigid path. Me? I married a cipher, and lived to regret it.
Introcomp 2010
Introcomp, the yearly competition for the beginnings of IF games, is enjoying an unusually strong year this year, with quite a few entries and fairly high quality overall. My thoughts — mildly spoilery — follow the cut. If you’re interested in playing the games and forming an opinion yourself, I encourage you to do so. I’ve also truncated my RSS feed for the time being so that the content here won’t syndicate to Planet-IF, as is my usual custom during competitions. I’ll turn it back to full strength soon.
So:
Homer in Silicon on Farmcraft 2
The latest Homer in Silicon covers the casual farm-management game “FarmCraft 2”. It has some unusually story-directed level design and pretty slick gameplay, if you like this kind of thing at all.
Two links
Enthusiastic, spoilery review of Make It Good from someone who doesn’t generally seem to be a big fan of IF.
Cellcraft, an RTS-style game about cellular biology, from the creator of Super Energy Apocalypse. More thorough review to follow later, but the short version is: I think the tutorial is paced wrong, and the interface has a few dozen things that I would tweak. On the other hand, by the end I was thoroughly enjoying this despite the quirks, and recalling some things about golgi bodies and the endoplasmic reticulum that I haven’t thought about for quite a while. And the silly, cute story provides a bit of motivation for the whole thing.
PTT on Fragile Shells
Continuing the IF-about-Space trend, here’s my review of Fragile Shells over at Play This Thing.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 