Posts Tagged ‘ RPG ’

Ultima IX Ascension – Intro Video

  • February 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

What’s best to do on a stormy spring autumn evening in your cozy carpeted living room with fireplace lightened messy bachelor apartment on the seventh floor while the wind cries outside through the trees concrete gaps? Correct! Playing a nice and well-matured Role-playing Game like for example Ultima. Ultima is the one role-playing game where you [ READ MORE ]

Mass Effect 2: The Future of RPGs? Oh really?

There has been a lot of hype around the release of Mass Effect 2 some weeks back and some people already start claiming that this game is going to be the Future of RPGs. Rampant Coyote took a stance and so did The Brainy Gamer. Being an old hand RPGer and having played Mass Effect [ READ MORE ]

Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic with Tandy Sound Enabled

  • February 9th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

Today’s video pick (yeah right, as if I had a new post everyday here) is from YouTube user Five5Six and about how he managed to get Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic to run on DOSBox with Tandy sound enabled. That’s right, Tandy sound! By default the game uses those bleepy PC speaker sounds as in [ READ MORE ]

Sword of Fargoal for iPhone

  • December 13th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

The classic dungeon crawler Sword of Fargoal has been released for the iPhone and it turns out that it’s one of the few computer/console-game-to-iPhone conversions I’ve came across that are actually fun to play on the touch-screen (unlike, say, Sonic, Bomberman et al). Go check it out if you’re into RPGs with an ever-changing maze-like [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 4: Whodunit? (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

  • November 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

While the main quest of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion didn’t attract me very much -- admittedly I haven’t even completed it once to this day -- some of the side quests were amusingly entertaining, particularly the Thief’s Guild and Dark Brotherhood quest series. Both of these feature stories with some pretty twisted plots and [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 3: Grager’s Yacht (Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic)

  • November 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

Back in the days when computer games still required you to use your imagination to play them there was a role-playing game pearl named Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, one of the many scifi-themed RPGs back then which today are only sparsely seeded in retailer shelves. Future Magic was first released for DOS and a port [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Character Development Example

Welcome back to the RPG Design series where I try to talk a bit about the work and progress on my game project, the development of the darkish, space -themed computer role-playing game Stellar Conspiracy: Entanglements Of The Marenis Sector (working title). In the last part I’ve introduced the character design template I’m using and mentioned [ READ MORE ]

Good Old Games releases Realms of Arkania

After their last RPG masterpiece release, the Might & Magic 6-Pack, gog.com have now released Realms of Arkania 1+2 and 3. RoA is the English version of what I only knew as Das Schwarze Auge in German back in the 16-bit days of Amiga. If my memory serves me right only the first part [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Character Development

Aah, back to the game design topic! The thing I love most about game design is that you can create worlds full of life, intricacy, intrigue and interesting characters, experimenting with scenarios and situations (that would otherwise probably have negative  repercussions in RL™). As a programmer you’d ever only write your code and if you are [ READ MORE ]

RPG Design: Choosing the right Graphical Projection

I’ve been designing on a rather ambitious Role-Playing game project since a while now (in fact quite a long while but I’m not in hurry to finish it anytime soon) and while I’m in the process of working out the story, technical details like the combat mechanics, skill system etc. and creating interesting characters I [ READ MORE ]

Lightspeed Flight and Laserfight

Review: Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic (DOS/C64) One of my very favorite games back on Amiga was the space RPG Hard Nova (to be reviewed in a while) which took me long cozy winter nights to solve. The predecessor of Hard Nova was a game called Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic which was released in 1988 [ READ MORE ]