PC Gaming
Posted by: kmikeym | From: August 17, 2004
Games give me a bad case of PC Envy. There is the normal PC-Only gaming culture of things like Far Cry and Republic, which I have mostly dealt with through expensive therapy sessions. But the smaller below-the-radar games are the ones that most make me want a Steven J. McCrappy Winbox.
More in the realm of "edutainment", The Political Machine is a strategy game putting you in the seat of the campaign manager. I can't offer a review of a game I haven't played, but this gets my saliva pumping. There is a multiplayer option. Oh my god... THERE IS A MULTIPLAYER OPTION!!! (Steve Schroeder and I once made plans to run a mock campaign against each other) There are political operatives, there is advertising, there are speeches... this is a great idea. (Erik: remember Presidential Palm? Yeah... you should work on that!) And the "edu" part of edutainment seems to show itself in that the game is modeled on the actual process of getting elected. You need 270 of the electoral votes to win.
The other recent game that makes me want to toss my pennies in Bill Gates' well is John Deere American Farmer. There was a NYTimes article about this game and the gaming culture of fly-over country (made in the Twin Cities, by Bold Games. A business simulation of a farm? This is great! One of the Amazon reviewers says, "For better or worse John Deere is purely a work simulation. It goes so far as to skip the winter months, since there is no work to be done." Of course I'm sure this game would be better with an online vs. mode.
Resource management games are my favorite, and unfortunately they seem to belong almost exclusively to the PC and unfortunately, I am a Mac guy.
"Cabel I am serious, I think a political strategy farming simulator will be huge! And you'll be able to run sports simulations as well, this project has legs!!"
Posted by: Mikey at August 18, 2004 2:24 PM
yeah, great Work!!
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Posted by: Kana Jok at August 1, 2006 9:16 AM
I know...so sad. There are no good deep stat/text based sports simulations for mac either. I just want to simulate and manage!!!!!
We should do something about this, Mike.
HEY! You work at a Mac Software company!
Your first programming project.
Posted by: Steve Schroeder at August 17, 2004 1:38 PM