May 2012
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TenCap
TenCap
TenCap is a tabletop strategy game for 2-4 players. The object of TenCap is to capture the opponent’s 10 card.
To play TenCap, all you need is a deck of playing cards, some dice, and a playing field, which is a 5x5 grid, each space roughly the size of a playing card. I made this playing field by simply taping two 8.5x11 pieces of copier paper together and drawing the grid on with a...
August 2011
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Link's Awakening Fan-Made Remake Falls Short
Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is my favorite game. I’ve got a pretty long history with Link’s Awakening, which has garnered a love for it that is unmatched by any other game. So, naturally, when I recently discovered a fan-made remake of the title, I got pretty excited.
The remake utilizes graphical elements from other 2D Zelda games, like the Link character model and...
July 2011
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Lion Killed My Play, But I'm Still Playing
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to OSX Lion the day it came out, and it made it impossible for me to play For the Frog the Bell Tolls. Lion doesn’t support PowerPC applications, or something, and my Game Boy emulator is one of those unsupported applications. I’m pretty disappointed, because I was enjoying the game quite a bit. However, it leaves me something to look forward to once I get my...
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Watching Speed Runs Makes Me Feel Like A CHUMP
I got my Wii hooked up to my Super Station Command Center (desk) and started playing Super Mario Sunshine. I spent a few days watching a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of Sunshine a week or so ago, and a world record speedrun of Mario 64 (recently set this week). Now that I’m actually playing the game, I feel like a fool.
I can’t help but want to do all the cool things done in the videos, but...
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SHAKE SHAKE!
I picked up a copy of Mischief Makers yesterday. It’s a weird, quirky, very Japanese platformer for the N64. I have a history with this game, and I’ve been meaning to pick it up since I acquired an N64.
As a kid, I really loved this game, despite not understanding one thing about it. The characters didn’t make any sense; they all looked like robots. Everything in the game had...
Anonymous asked: I guess building levels is fine, however, in MC, I guess you lose the ability of building with a purpose of what one would do once in the world.
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Builder of Worlds
For the past few days, I’ve been playing Minecraft for hours on end. I’m not a big builder when I play the game. I’ve only recently taken on my first relatively large construction job, which is a sort of castle/cathedral mix. The building itself isn’t that tall, maxing out at probably 25 blocks.
To be honest, I’m not even very excited to build the building. I’m...
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My Favorite Kinds of Gaming to Watch
I love to play video games. Enough to write about them, obviously. I also love to watch people play games. I could (and often do) spend as much time playing games as I do watching videos of other people playing. Here’s a few of my favorite things to watch:
Tool-Assisted Speedruns (TAS)
Speedruns are cool to watch. Tool-Assisted Speedruns are cooler to watch. I know unassisted speedruns...
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SHINE GET!
I just bought a copy of Super Mario Sunshine off eBay for $17, which is a pretty good deal considering it’s got the case, manual, and inserts (not that I care about that stuff, but it’s cool, I guess). I imagine Mario Sunshine will be that kind of game where people look back in twenty years and are like, “Remember Mario Sunshine? They gave Mario a weird thing that sprayed water...
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STILL playing Dragon Quest IX
Yes, yes, I’m stil playing Dragon Quest IX. And I’m playing it hardcore. I’ve logged 86 hours into the game as of now, and I can’t stop playing. From what I can tell, I have almost completed the main story.
I put off completing story missions for a while, just because I was worried that once I finished the main story, I would have no incentive to continue to play the game....
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All Games Should Be Fighting Games (sort of)
I think fighting games have the perfect gameplay design. I’m not a huge fan of the fighting game genre, but I think the mechanics used in fighters is something many games could learn from. Keep in mind, I’m not a game designer, so my ideas are not incredibly specific. However, I do think they are specific enough to get my point across.
Most fighting games have a core 4 actions that...
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Can't Get Enough DQIX
I’ve been playing lots of Dragon Quest IX lately. I bought it a while ago, but never really got into it until recently. It’s the first game in a long time that I’ve been able to really immerse myself in for hours at a time. Whether I’m collecting materials to alchemize items, progressing through the main story (I’m still not done at 60 hours in), or collecting maps...
June 2011
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Uncharted 3: 3 Team Deathmatch FTW
So, the Uncharted 3 Beta worked today. I played a handful of different competitive match types, most of which I enjoyed. My favorite of the available modes is definitely 3 Team Deathmatch.
3 Team Deathmatch is a 2v2v2 deathmatch, which, unlike anything I’ve played before, practically forces players to work together. With only two players per team, it’s easy to stick together and...
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They call it beta for a reason.
I tried out the Uncharted 3 beta after it finished downloading. The first thing I did was customize (with what little choices I had) my hero and villain characters, as well as create an emblem. My emblem turned out pretty cool, I think.
After checking out the customization options (and seeing I didn’t really have any options to choose from), I went to matchmaking. Well, I intended to...
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Uncharted 3 Beta is tomorrow.
I’m actually moderately excited to play. I started playing Uncharted 2 multiplayer a couple months ago for the first time, despite having no interest in shooters (I’m not good at them!). I received Uncharted 2 as a part of my PS3 Slim’s bundle, but never invested more than fifteen minutes into the game.
Fast-forward six months and I started watching some competitive Call of...
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SUP.
I decided I want to write more, so this is where I’ll be doing that. I might eventually decide to make schmete.com redirect to here, but for now I think I’m going to hold off on that until I prove to myself I have the motivation to write regularly.
I have no idea what the content will be like here, but I can assure you that it will likely be about things that I’m doing. I can...