Game Review: The Dev

Gamer Maker game! :D

So, this is a game made by someone who goes by the name of “Shady Guy” where you’re basically the owner of a game company and you have to choose the right interns, and make games. You can also choose how you want the game formatted by choosing certain Platforms, Genres, and Type of game that it is so you can attract the right customers. Every now-and-then a shady man comes in and you have to choose what to do, each one will effect you in a different way.

For each new product made, you’ll be able to make a game on that platform, and every few sells you get a new genre/platform. You can always choose the name of the game and you can even choose the name of your company (of course).

Just a few teeny flaws huh?

Now don’t let first appearances fool you, this game just wasn’t meant to be professional (Professionalism (in an extreme way) is not meant here, not that it ISN’T professional) so don’t start with the troll-hate comments. Plus, give the guy some credit, it was made in Game Maker and man it’s pretty neat. The graphics are pretty cute, especially the extremely skinny game awards announcer. They’re actually pretty good, like the icons for the “ingredients” (so to say).

As all games, there are bugs of course. Don’t kill yourself if you do get a little bug encounter, it’ll be alright. Just exit out of the game and then come back in and your game will be perfectly fine. The game literally saves itself every few minutes so you don’t need to worry about any missing game progress. To put up a bug report, put it down here: http://www.alpium-entertainment.com/bugs.php

Now the actual gameplay, goodie.

The gameplay had me hooked for a few minutes. One thing, to find out if the game is literally endless (which i hear it is in fact endless). I love that after you make a game and title it, the critics get their opinion of the game and you get a score and everything. Then there’s literally different audiences for the genres. Sometimes it’ll show you what gender/age audience follows you the most, and depending on what games you’ve made, you will have a certain audience (of course I mainly have a female audience XD).

Then! You can have advertisements to up the popularity and it will of course, gradually go up. Though some advertisements will make popularity go down in certain age/gender groups so be careful what you’re doing!

The link to the game is:http://www.alpium-entertainment.com/games.html

Just scroll down and find “The Dev” It’s there, trust me :D.

Gameplay: Poor Good Great Excellent Awesome

Graphics: Poor Good Great Excellent Awesome

Music: Poor Good Great Excellent Awesome

Creativity:  Poor Good Great Excellent Awesome

Extras: Poor Good Great Excellent Awesome

Rickroll

Image via Wikipedia

You’ve seen (part of) the troll, now for the other half – The rickroll.

The rickroll involves baiting a target to click on a link that appears relevant to the topic and linking to the song “Never Gunna Give You Up” by Rick Astley- Therefore coining the term Rick-Roll’d.

I understand the Rick Part, but why the Roll’d?

4chan is pretty much the start of all memes. Before the rickroll there was a practice called Duck Roll’d. There is the basis for the Roll’d part (more on duckrolling later).

My Experience with the Rickroll

I LOVE the game Age of Empires 3. Problem is, the company that made it broke up, making many unsure about the future of the series. over the years people have pretended to unearth news stories about its release/announcement, but the links were actually rickrolled.

The Video RickRoll‘D has over 39 MILLION views.

Astley on Rickrolls

LINK (I promise it isn’t rickroll’d, none of the links here will be. Also hovering the mouse over the link will make a preview)

In this Rick talks about how he had little to no idea about what was happening and how he felt embarrased by it at first, but now he just finds it funny.

On the Australian Election part, the current score is 73-74 to the ALP, one of the independents went their way.

Analysis of Tower Defense

So in my RTS topic last week I mentioned tower defense games. I left them out, really. So this must not be. Somethings awesome as this has to have some discussion and recognition of its awesomeness.

So here we are.

What is this “Tower Defense”?

Tower defense is a sub-genre of Real Time Strategy games. It involves making towers in an area to stop enemies from getting from point A to point B. Each time you kill an enemy you get some kind of currency or resource which can be used to upgrade or build new towers. Many games have different types of enemies which are countered in a rock-paper-scissors way. Others add flying units which can only be destroyed by specific flying-countering towers.

What are the types of Tower Defense?

Generally there is two different types of tower defense games. The first is where enemies follow a set path and towers are to be built along the sides of that particular path. Like so.

The other is where the enemies’ path depends on where you place your towers, in which strategic placement is required. Like so.

Of course, there are other game developers who set out to destroy my nice little classification, like 5th Cell’s Lock’s Quest (below)

I’m not complaining, it is a really good game, but it included a hero which can go around fighting the enemies as well as building towers and walls.

Sounds like fun. What Tower Defense Games do you recommend?

Seeing as a company put a trademark on the term “Tower Defense”, and such good things should be enjoyed for free, I am going to recommend flash games.

Desktop Tower Defense

A brilliantly made game that is highly addictive and fun to play. A must for any newbie to the genre.

Bloons Tower Defense 3
A bright, fun and hilarious game with the best tower being a monkey with plasma vision.

Canyon Defense
I personally don’t like Miniclip very much, but this is a really good game.

Frontline Defense

Gogo sniper towers!

Mini Tower Defense

Doesn’t the word “tanks” get people excited?

Well that’s it from me today.