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Bejeweled in WoW

Someone made a Bejeweled clone running as a World of Warcraft add-on: From the Joystiq article: The in-game add-on began as a homebrew Bejeweled clone from Michael Fromwiller, cleverly titled Besharded. Fromwiller developed the add-on as a method of killing time during long raids and farming sessions, but it wasn’t too long before PopCap caught [...]

Posted 22 September 2008 § Games ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: ,

Fairway Solitaire: The End

About two weeks ago I raved about Fairway Solitaire, a casual game I had just discovered (via Penny Arcade, I think). Just now, I have stopped playing it. In disgust. A simple and naive way to provide… variety, for want of a better word, is to simply keep cranking up the difficulty. It’s a time-honored [...]

Posted 02 August 2008 § Game Design § Games ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Fairway Solitaire

So after all the griping about big AAA games lately, you may wonder whether I actually like any games. And the answer is yes, yes I do. The game I am currently playing day and night is Fairway Solitaire. It’s a variant of Solitaire dressed up as golf. It is very easy to get into, [...]

Posted 14 July 2008 § Games ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: