Unwinnable

Developing games for a console is hard, damn hard. Even with the ascent of indie developers over the last five years or so, the number of people who have the talent, time and other qualities needed to develop a game for a console is quite small, but the next generation of consoles might just change all that. As much as we all love Steam and PC gaming to death (and I do), there is still an audience, and a non-trivial one, who prefer their games on consoles. Frankly, the more ways a game is available to be played, the better. (more…)

The world of Giant Sparrow’s PSN game The Unfinished Swan – the first few levels, at least – is a world of depthless white. I can pass through it, listening to my footsteps echo over stone, grass, water and dirt, feeling myself rise and descend, touching and jumping over obstacles, yet all the while my eyes tell me that I haven’t moved at all. Not until I spatter my first gob of black paint over the white. (more…)