July 2011
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Miranda July’s “A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted”, a terrific film short extracted from her most recent film The Future. The Future is playing at SF MOMA this week, though tickets are completely sold out. I will definitely catch it during it’s wider release.
Miranda July on NOWNESS via Willa
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Baking Life
So in addition to playing Tiny Tower (and actually liking it), this past week I begrudgingly dove into Baking Life, the popular social baking sim on Facebook, for a review on the upcoming site Sparkle Gamer. Baking Life proved to be one of those cookie cutter Facebook games, with all the “finish this quest now with Facebook credits!” (uuuggggh) and “Get your friends to join for...
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Tiny Tower
You got me Tiny Tower. Just when I was absolutely sure I was immune to all those free-to-play “social” sims, Tiny Tower manages to tiny charm my tiny pants off.
I’ve only played a handful of social games, but enough to realize that for the most part they play as cookie cutter clones of each other. Tiny Tower by NimbleBit is a tower building sim which simplifies a lot of the...
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Thanks to our friend Greg, our Fourth of July party ended in fireworks and a terrific series of Johann Sebastian Joust duels. Watch the awesome video here!
This is the fourth time I’ve played Copenhagen Game Collective’s Joust and time and time again it proves that it’s going to be a total hit. It’s incredible to watch groups of total strangers bond over a good joust. I...
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