Posts Tagged ‘Digitize This!’
Digitize This! #2 - Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub is the story of a former samurai turned assassin and his infant son as they travel the path of meifumadō , “the Road to Hell.” The epic fight scenes go hand in hand with historical detail and philosophical lessons. This manga has influenced everyone from Frank Miller to Quentin Tarantino and popularized the idea of the Ronin (the masterless samurai).
There have been 7 films, 2 television shows, and a futuristic sci-fi comic retelling. Yet here in the west, Lone Wolf and Cub has remained at best a cult hit. I was thinking how amazing a video game based on this series would be.
I was even going to write an article about how kick @#$ a game based on this would be. Then, like the good phony journalist that I am I started doing a little research and found someone had already made it. But it doesn’t exist.
Read on to learn more about the mythical Lone Wolf game and why it needs to be remade for XBLA. (more…)
Digitize This! #1 – Munchkin
"Beware the Duck of Doom!"
In this series, I will be taking a look at some analog games (board, card and miniature games) that I believe would make excellent XBLA or PSN games, along the same lines as “Settlers of Catan”, “Uno”, or “Carcassonne”.
“Munchkin” is a card game, created by Steve Jackson Games, for two or more players (you can technically play it with as many people as you’d like, though it does make it go a bit slower), in which you try to reach level 10 before any of the other players. Sounds simple enough, right?
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Videogame Jam of the Day Latest Podcast- Barrel Roll #169 - "Panda Games Are Their Own Genre" December 24, 2012After a brief hiatus, the Barrel Roll podcast is back to their old tricks. Jesse, Jonah, Wes, and Adam Milecki return for an in depth discussion of the burgeoning panda genre and what it brings to the table. Jonah finally dips into Tokyo Jungle to try out its panda-related DLC. Jesse fights pandas with increasingly elaborate costumes in Tekken Tag Tournament […]
