Archive for June 6th, 2010

Boulderdash!

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

I have an idea for a Playstation Minis game that I would actually spend money on. Boulder Dash! Someone needs to acquire the rights for it, and turn it into a mini – I seriously lost weeks of my life to this game back when all I had to game on was a Commodore 64.

It’s a 2D game where you basically dig around through a maze, collecting diamonds. You can dig through dirt, but there’s also brick walls and other nastiness you can’t dig through. There’s boulders of course, which can fall and kill you, and you can push them around to solve the maze as well.

Timing is everything, snatching loose diamonds as they fall between two boulders isn’t uncommon, and some of the levels it’s only possible to collect all the diamonds if you flawlessly execute a movement through the maze at the perfect time, snatching them all up before they’re buried under boulders forever.

The game mechanics are simple, the level designs are fiendish, and I really think it needs to be ported to the PS3. :(

City Wide Rummage is over :(

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Once again, mid-western weather overcomes the best laid plans.

Friday started moderately well, but everyone knows that most of the people who work (and are therefore not desperately trying to cash-in, and are actually looking to get rid of some of their stuff) are all busy on Friday so Saturday’s the day.

It was a terrible omen that as I went to warm the car up, it poured down raining for about 5 minutes. That basically set the pattern for the entire day – a pretty warm day with patches of torrential downpour, so not surprisingly the whole place was like a giant armpit.

The inclement weather of course meant that the only people out selling stuff were those who were safely in garages and barns, and those people didn’t seem to have too much interesting stuff. One place that we went to, which was way out in the middle of nowhere, allegedly had a ton of baby clothes. Well, it turns out they had nothing but little girl clothes, which isn’t terribly interesting if you just had a little boy. They also had equestrian apparel and other horse paraphernalia (curious for Indiana, but not particularly interesting to me), along with a shitload of panda stuff (I think someone had a fetish to be honest) and not a lot else. We did score a couple of matching ceiling fans though.

My personal haul didn’t really consist of much – the Rock Band crap from friday, a small widescreen LCD I picked up for $2 that to my surprise actually works, and a 2-port KVM switch. Ironic that last year we saw all manner of stuff we’d have liked, and didn’t have any money – this year we actually had some money and didn’t see anything at all.

Aww well, I’m sure there will be more, smaller pockets of sales throughout the summer. I need to find something interesting for Hungry Hacker.