Wonderland

MyWorld

What is this, then. A melange of lots of popular ideas, including stopmotion scribbly explanations...

Still not entirely sure what it is. Looks cute.

Retail Therapy

Shopping game. On Facebook. Targeted at women: female shop assistants, female characters only, female clothes only. No man shopping here.

I called mine Bitchy Shop, that's not part of the default game. Sadly.

So you set up your shop, order clothes, wait for customers, etc. But immediately you're confronted with neighbouring shops: not your friends, but brands...

Diane Von Furstenberg (or dee vee eff, dahling) sells incredibly expensive wrap dresses. TopShop sells incredibly cheap wrap dresses (and more). But TopShop isn't my earned neighbour yet, only very expensive Diane. You're encouraged to visit, so you visit, whereupon you can buy 2.5d tiny versions of some DVF generics.

No thank you. Back to my shoddy little store, whereupon I am receiving delivery of some Banana Republic fluttersleeve something or others.

It's populist and popular, this game. 93,000 monthly actives, says Inside Social Games.

The big question is: would they have more if it weren't such a nasty, cynical, ultra-materialistic game? Or fewer?

I don't have the answer to that.

You must play the Sega Saturn!

Because you must!

 

Available to preorder.

Okami tea set

Japanese tea set, so ceramic cups rather than mugs or saucer sets. And they're the types that reveal the art as the hot drink heats the cup...

 

Import only, and awfully expensive. But oh so pretty!

The Curfew is go!

In part, anyway. Chapter One is Go (albeit one or two tiny bugs and spelingz). The rest of the package arrives early next week.

Keep your eyes peeled for one or two cheeky chappies you may or may not recognise in it, including DOSS watchlist Member, the Newsreader, Dead Guy on a Train Platform, and Man With Nosebleed...

So, disclaimer, I commissioned this. But I'm playing it over and over. Littleloud and Kieron Gillen have poured blood, humour, guts and more into this game. It's making me laugh out loud in places, and making me grin like an idiot. Catch references too to Resident Evil, and, oh, a ton more.

Enjoy. More to come next week.

KBs Game Toilet: Korean Supermarket Quake Tourney

This made my day. Ricky from Honeyslug pointed me at Twitter-user KBsGameTOILET, whose bio reads:

"All Flash Games ideas I don't have time to make as I am making some amazing SANDWICHES right now."

... and here's her/his idea for "Korean supermarket Quake Tourney" game: Frag Farm. It's so spot on, right down to the computer-smashing loser rage. Genius.

 

There's more gold in that pan, says Ricky. I think he's right.

Nuka-Cola earrings

Fallout 3. Still on my to-play list!!

(The kid and the 'usband go off to visit the folks soon though, and while the mice are away, mamacat is going to play Fallout 3. And possibly also Mass Effect. Bioshock 2? God of War 3? Life takes up so much time..!)

 

These are ultra-gorgeous. I'd get my ears pierced for these.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 blank notepad

I love these, the recycling the cover of something else into something new. I've got a bunch of notepads made from old sci-fi books, but game boxes, that's new?

 

From Folksy, so made in the UK this one.

Mass Effect cushion

Because even Cmdr Shepard likes to snuggle on the sofa?

Develop award

You can't get one of these and *not* show it off, right?? Forgive me.

Received by me last thursday at Develop, on behalf of all those at C4 commissioning games. FTW!