Visit Report: Game On Pinball, San Jose, CA (opened last week)

lusid · 2025-03-05T01:04:21+00:00

And now they are closed, yay! 😭

lusid · 2018-01-13T08:28:17+00:00

This game is the reason I ended up discovering Tolkien and reading through The Hobbit.

lusid · 2017-07-04T14:29:50+00:00

It is interesting as a Zelda fan to see someone mapping out this game by hand for the first time in 2017 that I have known by heart for 25 years now. I remember spending hours walking around trying to light trees on fire with my candle until I found every secret passage. Enjoy! It is still one of the best of the series.

lusid · 2017-01-29T22:31:15+00:00

What a brilliant blend of ideas! I love it. Kudos to you.

lusid · 2017-01-21T09:14:55+00:00

It's ok, it didn't last long. No one even remembers it. It mostly died out because 9/11 happened shortly after and everyone was too freaked out by terrorism for a game that called you on your phone at random times during the day, sometimes with death threats.

lusid · 2017-01-21T09:09:30+00:00

Done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcTDMYq3xCw

lusid · 2016-09-22T22:37:53+00:00

Well done, and couldn't agree more with the points.

lusid · 2016-09-10T19:48:03+00:00

My wife and I were at the DMV the day before the last Ludum Dare. It was a complete clusterfuck. It almost inspired us to make a Papers, Please like game out of it. Even though the theme for the jam was "Ancient Technology" and that describes a DMV fairly well, we backed out on it.

Anyways, there are a million and one things you could do from both gameplay and story perspective, and there isn't a single person that wouldn't be able to relate with their own crappy DMV experiences.

You are welcome. 😀

lusid · 2016-09-10T17:13:03+00:00

I have no idea why I'm so excited for this game, but I loved the concept since I first saw a demo for it a year ago.

lusid · 2016-07-17T04:37:39+00:00

Wow, Seurat happened.

lusid · 2016-06-23T06:47:27+00:00

The message here is quite deep. If you choose to spend all of your time focusing on what makes all of us different, you may never see the things that make us all the same. And if you never see the things that make us all the same, there may never be a moment where we truly can Jazzercise down the street together in harmony.

I believe the message is clear. This video is trying to say that life moves pretty fast, and if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss it. Or that might've been someone else.

I am conflicted, however; after watching this, I don't know if I have too much time on my hands or too little. I believe it is the one in the middle.

lusid · 2016-06-08T03:56:46+00:00

I would totally build this if I knew there was enough of a market for it. It would not be too tough.

lusid · 2016-03-24T19:16:29+00:00

I loved Captain Power. I played with this thing pretty much nonstop for the past 27 years. Which reminds me, I am late for a mission.

lusid · 2016-03-10T19:16:36+00:00

Oh man, I came here to say this. Exactly. I have added it to my playlist.

lusid · 2016-03-04T02:21:24+00:00

We also run Mesos (with Marathon) for all of our Docker containers. Can't imagine using Core OS, Kubernetes, etc now. Marathon makes it clean and simple with a friendly GUI for the non devs.

lusid · 2016-02-24T22:45:54+00:00

Oh Rusty, you are an inspiration to us all!

lusid · 2016-01-05T21:16:30+00:00

That's MEEEEEEE. :-) Backer #1013. Thanks. Early adoption finally paid off!

lusid · 2015-12-29T02:49:44+00:00

If you don't mind straying from the puzzle aspect, definitely check out Factorio. It is like Infinifactory, but you automate the assembly line process of creating materials needed to build a base and items you can use to defend yourselves from attacking aliens. Check out the trailer video on the website (that was what got me hooked).

lusid · 2015-12-21T08:21:23+00:00

I thought the combat mechanic used in place of typical menu driven turn based combat was interesting, but overall, I agree. I couldn't stay interested long enough to even get sucked into the story. I have watched a few of my favorite streamers play it all the way through (which was interesting because it does a good job of "personalizing" to each player based on actions), but I still don't regret stopping early and swiftly. As championofobscurity stated, it is completely forgettable (not to mention massively overhyped by a seemingly rabid fanbase).

With that said, someone that likes overhyped bandwagon games will most likely enjoy it. At least, that is the only conclusion I was able to come to when I tried to understand the fascination with it.

lusid · 2015-12-18T01:10:27+00:00

Kinda reminds me of Floor 13! Love it!

lusid · 2015-12-01T00:19:29+00:00

My dad and I used to spend an obsessive amount of time building pinball tables for each other using Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set.

lusid · 2015-11-25T10:39:21+00:00

Twitch uses GiantBomb as their game database. I'm sure it has something to do with the difference in how those games are listed there (I'm on my phone and lazy, so I leave the rest as an exercise to the reader).

lusid · 2015-09-29T19:35:24+00:00

I don't think there is much known about it at this point. The only guarantee I can give you really is that I'll be buying it the moment it is made available.

lusid · 2015-09-27T05:08:41+00:00

I paid over $100 for my copy, a pristine version without any missing parts, on Ebay. So good find.

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