Bonoboblogs

New Super Mario Bros. U is a game easy to be cynical about. It represents much of what is wrong with Nintendo today – a company relying heavily on the same, decade old brands. The New Super Mario Bros. series being a particular offender – delivering Mario branded products by re-packaging 30 years old gameplay on a low budget.

But hey, [...]

Finaly a new website!!!111!!!

http://www.the-black-and-juicy-liquid-feedback.com/
02/2013 courtesy of the artist

A new production and the first one for 2013. Strangeness and optimism – let’s make this 2013 a good one! The music comes again from the very best german Netlabel Broque!

Here is an interesting game thing to get. Nintendo recently released a book called Hyrule Historia in the west.

Around 250 pages. A4 Format. Full-color. Hard-bound with golden print on the cover.

The books is somewhat unusual. On first sight one could call it an artbook for the Zelda series. The main bulk of the content does focus on [...]

Just found these two images in a corner of my external harddrive. Dont know what do to with now but will think about it. Perhaps one or two new Websites? Lets’s see.

the-alpha-and-the-omega.com (and some other pieces) is now a part of the ‘http://netplasticism.com/‘-Collection.
Freebeer for all of you!

It’s time for another Backlog Update. I completed another set of 5 games some time ago.

Rayman Origins Finished this quite some time ago. I wrote a little about sexism in that game and possible ways to have avoided it. But generally, I liked it a lot. I was also pleased to see that my GF played [...]

One of Cologne’s Global Game Jam 2013 entries freshly hit the iPhone AppStore. It’s a tiny game, called “Super Sloth Jazz Jam“. It has got a nice little idea around the Game Jam 2013 topic “HeartBeat”. You direct a small jazz-band with fast and slow passages, by pressing the heart in time. You have to be more or less accurate, otherwise your performance will fail. A nice game, made in just 48 hours of the game jam, playing with the idea around a musical-performance-directing-game. Graphics and music is sweet as well! Super Sloth Jazz Jam is available for free in the end, so why not give it a try. (via Krystman #onegameamonth)

Oh, before you leave… I also made a game at the game jam! Or let’s say, I finished a prototype of a sound-only game-mechanic. Read more about my “Puzzle BeatBeat” at Nodepond.

I got the Prometheus Blu-Ray on Christmas. It was the über-mega-special edition with a ton of special features. Perhaps not quite as much as Red Letter Media suggested but I ended up spending an entire day watching it.

There is some very cool material on there. I was especially surprised by the edited scenes. There was a [...]

I’m really enjoying the Wii U these days. I got one at launch but I wasn’t able to play it until just recently. Because the first thing I did once I got it was to break it.

Before you brick, you see the ring.

But let’s start at the beginning. As you may know, I host a podcast show [...]

I participated at the Global Game Jam 2013 and came up with a promising gaming idea, suitable for disabled (blind) people (and scored the “Games for Change”-Badge with it as well). It’s a puzzle game, where you have to “match” musical pattern. The game is just at a prototyping-level, but in the end, you get the idea. Maybe it is possible, to put more musical drive into that idea. The game was realized in Renoise and the Renoise Lua-Scripting-Interface (which I absolutely like)! Here is the official link to this project and the Global Game Jam 2013 entry.

And some impressions from the Global Game Jam 2013 at Cologne Game Lab.

Flowlab.io looks like a new promising project for game designers and rapid developers and friends of trying out stuff online. With Flowlab you can quickly develop games and game-prototypes right in your browser. It is a complete game studio including a built in sprite editor, an integrated physics engine and visual logic designer – some of you will think of Game Maker maybe…

The Flowlab-people promse, that games built with Flowlab are playable on web and can be exported to the iPhone and iPad as well. So, why not have a look?

Here is something weird that Nintendo of Europe did recently. They gave me coins.

SWAG!

You may not be familiar with Operation Rainfall. It was basically a fan campaign to convince Nintendo of America to localize and publish 3 specific Japanese Wii games: Xenoblade Chronicles, Last Story and Pandora’s Tower. It started out with Xenbolade Chronicles being announced [...]

I recently participated in the Global Game Jam 2013. It was fun. Here is an impression video.

Because I haven’t been involved in the management and presentation of this year’s jam, I was able to actually work on a game in a team for the first time. It was an exciting 48 hours. I was working with [...]