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I downloaded this game from the H.P. Lovecraft Commonplace Book Contest called "Handyman Wanted." Sadly, after a transparent setup (a book of matches and a knife in the dresser drawer?), the first obstacle it threw it me was a Twelve Puzzle. I suck at Manhattan geometry, but still... Manhattan...

Here is a link to an article in Gamestudies on this topic. It discusses uses of the technique in Zork, Virtual Valerie, and Bad Mojo. http://gamestudies.org/0701/articles/harpold

Seconded.

H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Jorge Luis Borges, Douglas Adams, Albert Camus, and Thomas Ligotti. If you haven't read Borges or Ligotti... do yourself a favour. Ligotti, in particular, has several short reads which will haunt you for the rest of your life.

If I have a son, I'd like him to be named Arpegius. I'll probably be forced into a compromise. No thoughts on names for a daughter, but it would have to be something unique.

I think my worst habit is my tendency to think things over for far too long, so that by the name I've thought out what I want to say, the subject or my thoughts on it are no longer relevant. Also, I sometimes don't listen. I worry about whether or not anything I do is productive, even though I...

Lands of Lore III. Worst. Went out of its way to dump on the series. Resident Evil 4. Silly me, I expected it to be a survival horror game. Super Mario Galaxy. Short and unsatisfying, like its interpretation of the fire flower.

-Battletoads -Legend of Zelda -Gauntlet II (for some reason I never played #1) -Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos -Street Fighter 2010 -Out of This World ("Another World" outside the US) -Dragon Crystal -Eye of the Beholder (admittedly, for the character generator) -Dungeon Master...

Most of my money goes to paying bills, which is why I love freeware.

I fail to see in some ways what this thread has to do with hype. Hype is the artificial inflation of worth in a product... if a game has sucked me in and won't let go, isn't that a sign that it's doing its job, and therefore not artificially inflated to that extent? Semantics aside, the most...

According to the ESA, "The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years."

Are casual games the first step towards joybooths?

I'm not certain how much effect a Chief Financial Officer has on that sort of activity. Isn't their job just to make more money, as opposed to, say, controlling product quality?

The horror genre is too important to die out. Take it from Lovecraft, horror is ?a composite body of keen emotion and imaginative provocation whose vitality of necessity must endure as long as the human race itself.? Its expression will never die out in any particular medium; it just needs to...

Off the top of my head and in no particular order: -Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos -Metal Gear Solid -Day of the Tentacle -A Mind Forever Voyaging -Silent Hill