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I don't normally get excited about game annou...
June 01, 2009 by Adam in Adam's Games
I don't normally get excited about game announcements, but this no ordinary game. They're bringing back Monkey Island, a game so dear to my heart that I named our dog Guybrush Threepwood.
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Sam and I have been playing a lot of Indie ga...
May 28, 2009 by Adam in Adam's Games
 Sam and I have been playing a lot of Indie games lately. I ended up getting Plants versus Zombies for free in a drawing, which is an excellent game. The main quest is fun, but then there's endless little mini-games and puzzles that are equally entertaining. Over the weekend, the kids and I made Plants versus Zombie figurines out of Sculpey.
As a prize for memorizing his multiplication tables, Sam got the game Braid. It's an indie game involving changing the flow of time, with lots of tricky puzzles. At one point last night, Sam couldn't figure out a puzzle, so I googled "Braid walkthrough" and found the official Braid walkthrough. It's from the developer and it basically said, "Don't use a walkthrough - keep trying."
We did just that and figured out the issue. Suddenly that intense frustration switched to a happy feeling of our intellectual prowess. Games are funny that way.
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I've pretty much given up on Dead Space
April 21, 2009 by Adam in Adam's Games
 I've pretty much given up on Dead Space. The scary parts weren't that gripping and I eventually lost interest and drifted on to other games.
Mostly I'm playing Witcher. I had started before and gave up for reasons unknown. Now I'm really enjoying the gritty fantasy world and stop to think over some of the decisions I'm making. There are a few flaws, such as having to run around large areas several times, but it's become one of my favorite RPGs.
Sam and I are playing through my old Neverwinter Night campaigns, which is lots of fun. Emma occasionally begs me to play Wizard 101, which is a pretty basic online game for kids. It's at a perfect level for her, but I find it a little simplistic.
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I went in to Sam's bedroom this morning and t...
February 20, 2009 by Adam in Adam's Games
 I went in to Sam's bedroom this morning and told him it was time to wake up and roll for initiative. Yes, we've started playing Dungeons and Dragons and he got the joke.
I have these old 3rd edition D&D books that I bought for my computer game activities, but never really used them for their intended purpose. Sam's had fun looking through them over the years, but last weekend he declared that he'd like to actually play.
Emma was willing as well, so she became Fawn the cleric and Sam became Samuel the fighter. Soon they were killing rats and saving the children of the town of Deep Pool. Now Sam negotiates with Emma that he'll play Lego Star Wars with her on the Wii for a half hour if she's willing to play D&D. Even Sam recognizes that he'd be a goner without his handy cleric nearby.
They've both had fun, and have strangely been picking up assorted planning and math skills. For some reason, Sam's quite good at doing math in his head if gold pieces are involved. It's fun as a parent as well, watching them feel like heroes in their own story. Good times.
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