Gaming: World of Goo

World of Goo, developed by 2D Boy is a physic based game involving goo balls which you interconnect to reach a pipe. Essentially it is a puzzle game with that will test how well you know how things lean and what clever constructs you can build with these balls to reach the suction pipe. Yeah that’s right.

Pros:
Interesting gaming design
Colourful cartoony visuals
Un-intrusive music
Simple controls

Cons:
Game seems short
No save replay
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Events: Armageddon 2009

Armageddon 2009. A gathering of pulp culture - whatever that means - has happened again. This year they shifted the venue from the Aotea Centre in central Auckland to a bigger venue at Greenlane event centre. The rumour I heard was that the Aotea was over flowing with people that they needed a bigger place to contain all the fan boys/girls. This indicated to me that Armageddon has finally got better and it is finally time for me to return to the event that has disappointed me after years and years. Continue reading Events: Armageddon 2009…

Musings: What she’s really thinking

Towards the end of September http://xkcd.com posted this comic:

Steven K Wang commented on facebook and I quote: “ha, so unrealistic, his imagination seems to be more probable…oh wait, that actually depend on if he is good looking, damn.” And I thought to myself yeah that is quite unrealistic in the modern world so I thought I’d do a comic of my own to illustrate how in a situation like this, what she would be actually thinking…

I am come on, other guys would be way more interesting than thou no?

Gaming: Golden Axe Warrior on Sega Master System

No, not the side scroller of fame but the birds eye, top down, action adventure version that maybe a lot of people haven’t heard of released in 1991 called Golden Axe Warrior. A simple way to explain it is, it looks like the original Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System. In fact, I have read from places it was Sega’s way of competing with the NES at the time. If you put a play the games side by side you can see they are nearly identical.

Pros:
Quite colourful and good use of colour.
Music match mood of game.
Easy to pick up and play.

Cons:
Repetitive.
Lack of world map.
Frustrating secrets.
Unimaginative monsters.
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Dining: At Butter Bank on Bank Street Whangarei

With me today was Kirsty Williams. I first saw this place open a few weeks ago but I’ve been told that it’s been there a little longer than that. When it was open it doesn’t matter, it’s a restaurant that I haven’t been to yet. Continue reading Dining: At Butter Bank on Bank Street Whangarei…

On Convincing My Parents of My Mainstream Sexual Orientation

Itamar Amith

Department of Computer Science,

University of Auckland

Email: iami001@aucklanduni.ac.nz

Phone (or txt): 021 1105912

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