Sometime ago I mentioned I had been working on a new creation, which I am calling Ganglands. This has since been played numerous times in it's alpha format, with several different opponents, tweaking the rules each time a little.
Anyway, it has been sometime now since then and the rules have changed a lot! I've been thinking hard, developing ideas and designing new cards on my computer. I'm hoping to get alpha version 2 out soon for testing, and maybe this time I'll be happy enough to go to my local game shop and see what they think.
The thing that is most likely to hold this up though is a new idea I've had, which has been blazing away in my brain for a few days now. I was at work one night and it came to me and as soon as I got home I had to start writing and didn't stop until well after midnight.
The topic is a secret at the moment as it is based on a series of independent novels, but I'm confident in my idea and need to keep working at it. Unlike Ganglands this game will have a game board and I'm hoping to use special dice, but the main bulk of the game will be card based.
I'm just hoping that I don't lose focus on Ganglands as that is really coming together at the moment and is a game that I think has a lot of potential to be expanded, similar to the Living Card Games that Fantasy Flight have released.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Friday, 4 May 2012
An under-rated game and games I should play, but can't find the time to...
Whilst at work the other evening I was thinking about an old game that had unique gameplay and was fantastically addictive for a short period, Endwar.
A mate and I both invested in this game a couple of years back and it was ultra cheap, £6ish, and we both fell in love with it. You don't get many strategy games on consoles because they just don't work, generally speaking, without the use of a mouse and keyboard, but Endwar worked fantastically due to it being mostly controlled by your voice.
The voice given orders are so intuitive and generally well picked up by the game that it flows wonderfully, with only a small amount of navigation being required from your controller.
The game had a reasonable dynamic campaign (something you don't see very much anymore in games, sadly), and a few variations of game type to keep multiplayer ticking over. However, the reason the game was a flop was it's lack of depth. It's so sad to say it, once you get into the flow, every game feels much the same and there was a huge lack in the satisfaction value when you won.
I think this game came within a hair's breadth of becoming a great game, but just lacked that little bit of depth and variation. I still play it once in a blue moon, just for that great voice recognition based gameplay. I've seen rumours of a Endwar 2, but it's been a long time now and I'm not hopeful. Or, at least, not in the near future.
And now for the second topic of this rant, games I want to play, but can't bring myself to.
I think this is a feeling many gamers get; you have been thinking about busting out some time on a game you've not played in a while, you know it's great, but have been too busy or playing newer games, but you really fancy going back to that old game, only to realise that actually I might just play some more FIFA...
Arg! So infuriating!
In my case, I'm talking about Gears of War 3. I haven't played it in so long! But it is a fantastic game. I've been wanting to properly crank out some more online horde mode for a long time, but just can never get the motivation to do it, because I bottle out and take the easy option of some battlefield 3 or FIFA.
Well, I plan to change this! I will play Gears of War 3 this weekend!
Curse you, instant gratification!
A mate and I both invested in this game a couple of years back and it was ultra cheap, £6ish, and we both fell in love with it. You don't get many strategy games on consoles because they just don't work, generally speaking, without the use of a mouse and keyboard, but Endwar worked fantastically due to it being mostly controlled by your voice.
The voice given orders are so intuitive and generally well picked up by the game that it flows wonderfully, with only a small amount of navigation being required from your controller.
The game had a reasonable dynamic campaign (something you don't see very much anymore in games, sadly), and a few variations of game type to keep multiplayer ticking over. However, the reason the game was a flop was it's lack of depth. It's so sad to say it, once you get into the flow, every game feels much the same and there was a huge lack in the satisfaction value when you won.
I think this game came within a hair's breadth of becoming a great game, but just lacked that little bit of depth and variation. I still play it once in a blue moon, just for that great voice recognition based gameplay. I've seen rumours of a Endwar 2, but it's been a long time now and I'm not hopeful. Or, at least, not in the near future.
And now for the second topic of this rant, games I want to play, but can't bring myself to.
I think this is a feeling many gamers get; you have been thinking about busting out some time on a game you've not played in a while, you know it's great, but have been too busy or playing newer games, but you really fancy going back to that old game, only to realise that actually I might just play some more FIFA...
Arg! So infuriating!
In my case, I'm talking about Gears of War 3. I haven't played it in so long! But it is a fantastic game. I've been wanting to properly crank out some more online horde mode for a long time, but just can never get the motivation to do it, because I bottle out and take the easy option of some battlefield 3 or FIFA.
Well, I plan to change this! I will play Gears of War 3 this weekend!
Curse you, instant gratification!
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