Mood Pieces: The Modern God Gaming of “From Dust”
Mood Pieces is a new recurring feature, where I introduce and review games that make an impression on me with their atmosphere, mood or theme.
The first game in the series is a game called From Dust, which I first became aware through a Penny Arcade comic. Having been a Populous and Black & White fan, the idea of a modern god game intrigued me immediately. From Dust is available in Xbox Live Arcade, and later on it will be published in PlayStation Network and OnLive. The guy behind the game is Eric Chahi, whose previous work includes a true classic, Another World.
Liquefying in Greece
My holiday week for this summer was a trip to Greece, to meet an old net pal Constantis we visited three years ago the last time. Essentially for me the trip was nine days of total relaxation surrounded with friends, food, diving and geeky entertainment.
Platanitsi beach, with mount Athos on the background.
There is actually not that much to tell about the trip, which doesn’t mean that it was a boring one in any sense – it’s just that for once I did on holiday what normal people apparently do, which is to idle, feed and just damn relax.
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Giving Up on MMORPGs – The World of Warcraft Experiment
In the end of the summer I made a deal with the devil, or at least with my fiancé: she would get more active in the social media, and I would get into World of Warcraft and come raid with her and our online pals for half a year. For me this was a win-win proposition, since if everything went well, we both would get a new great digital playground, and also a nice common hobby. The latter would be a great way to spend time together online, especially since I tend to travel a lot because of my work. Also, I’ve been wanting to find another community online where to belong to, something different from irc-channels or net forums: a virtual world.
So, I started from level 1 and started the climb to level 80, mostly alone but sometimes with friends, and decided to fit at least two evenings per week of gaming.
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