While attending EGX 2014 at Earl’s Court, London on Thursday 25th September 2014, I caught up with Rob O’Leary,CTO of Adventure Box
Rob took some time out from EGX to tell me all about his company’s upcoming title, Adventure Box, which just so happens to look pretty damn good.
Have a listen and see why we should be very excited about this little gem.
Recently, I had the chance to pose a few questions to Chris Keenan, Project Lead at InXile Entertainment for the recent game Wasteland 2 (which I gave a massive thumbs up to in my recent review)
Here’s what he had to say: Read more …
It’s not often that I’ve had cause to review a Kickstarted game here on Zero1gaming, but with the crowd-funding movement becoming so prominent over recent years, there’s more than a few titles emerging from the site, so it’s about time I got on board.
Truth be told though, I’d have been all over today’s subject; Wasteland 2; like a tramp on chips whether it was kickstarted, big budget, indie-developed or even, gulp, taken over by EA!
Any misplaced hopes that you might possess of Silence of the Sleep being an uplifting tale disintegrates in the opening moments when you witness the main character, Jacob Reeves, standing on the edge of a cliff pondering his existence. Having apparently nothing to live for, he jumps to what he considers his eminent mortal demise only to awaken in a dark room some time later in a shadowy netherworld known as “the Blackness.” Portraying Jacob, you must interact with the game’s dark environments and the denizens living out their eternities in the Blackness to find clues, solve puzzles and escape the numerous horrors awaiting you behind the next door. Read more …
I’ve made my views on “mobile” and “casual” games quite clear in the past: as a rule, I dislike them. They tend to exemplify the worst traits of gaming, from pay-to-win micro-transactions to virtually hijacking your online identity. These are the sort of games that ceaselessly tell all your friends what you’re playing, how you’re playing and wouldn’t THEY like to play? They are also generally poor quality overall, with shallow and repetitive gameplay and horrible graphics. Yet people lap them up, collectively spending millions of hours playing these pieces of crap. To each their own, I suppose.
What bothers me now is the recent surge in Indie titles being released all over the place. While the vast majority of them will be nothing like the worst offenders in the mobile world – blatant cash-grabs or advertising opportunities – there are still a few problems I’m beginning to see. Read more …