Forging At Life

Out of the blue came GeneForge 4, another excellent independent gaming product of Spiderweb Software, which kept me up late Saturday and ate up much of my Sunday. Here’s a gem worth talking about.
Spiderweb Software’s RPGs have a few things in common.

They’re tile-based, played from a top-down or isometric perspective.

They feature turn-based combat on [...]

A Broken Obsession (Space Empires V)

I’ve still been wasting far too much time playing the demo of Space Empires V, a sorely broken game with what feels like great potential. My latest bout has me hacking the demo files to implement some of Captain Kwok’s fixes. The developers astutely prevented me from doing most of this, but not [...]

A Story of Strategy

My ancient race of lazy energy beings, the Procrastini, were interrupted from their colonization program by their first encounter with alien life: the Amon’krie. No sooner than our communication channels were established did these slimy lizards begin to initiate intelligence attacks against my empire. Against this onslaught of espionage we were largely defenseless [...]