Krystian Majewski
Website: http://www.krystian.de
UFO Postmortem Observations
I wrote yesterday about some of my observations on the Myst Classic Game Postmortem. I wanted to follow-up today with the UFO Classic Game Postmortem.
Full disclosure: I never actually played that much of UFO. I played a couple of missions. But most of my UFO experience comes from the sequel X-Com: Terror from the Deep which [...]
Myst Postmortem Observations
One of my favorite GDC sessions are the Classic Game Postmortems. These are presentations where the creators of famous old-schools games tell the story of how those games were created. The postmortems are great because they tend to reveal surprising facts about those often pivotal games. They also great because they often show a historical, [...]
TRAUMA iOS Released!
I am proud to announce that my game TRAUMA has been just released on the App Store. It is available here for $2.99. It is a universal App so it plays on both, the iPad and the iPhone.
Get TRAUMA iOS here
It has been a surprisingly long way to get here. Almost immediately after the initial release [...]
Miasmata Impressions
The games industry has a sickness. It’s an acute lack of innovation. We don’t have a cure yet. But here is a mixture that may provide temporary relief: mix equal parts Far Cry 2, Amnesia and Myst. You get Miasmata.
Far Cry 2 Parts
Just like Far Cry 2, Miasmata is a first-person open-world game. You are free to [...]
New Super Mario Bros. U Impressions
New Super Mario Bros. U is a game easy to be cynical about. It represents much of what is wrong with Nintendo today – a company relying heavily on the same, decade old brands. The New Super Mario Bros. series being a particular offender – delivering Mario branded products by re-packaging 30 years old gameplay on a low budget.
But hey, [...]
Hyrule Historia
Here is an interesting game thing to get. Nintendo recently released a book called Hyrule Historia in the west.
Around 250 pages. A4 Format. Full-color. Hard-bound with golden print on the cover.
The books is somewhat unusual. On first sight one could call it an artbook for the Zelda series. The main bulk of the content does focus on [...]
Backlog Update 9
It’s time for another Backlog Update. I completed another set of 5 games some time ago.
Rayman Origins Finished this quite some time ago. I wrote a little about sexism in that game and possible ways to have avoided it. But generally, I liked it a lot. I was also pleased to see that my GF played [...]
How They Broke Prometheus
I got the Prometheus Blu-Ray on Christmas. It was the über-mega-special edition with a ton of special features. Perhaps not quite as much as Red Letter Media suggested but I ended up spending an entire day watching it.
There is some very cool material on there. I was especially surprised by the edited scenes. There was a [...]
Wii U-Turn Around The World
I’m really enjoying the Wii U these days. I got one at launch but I wasn’t able to play it until just recently. Because the first thing I did once I got it was to break it.
Before you brick, you see the ring.
But let’s start at the beginning. As you may know, I host a podcast show [...]
Operation Rainfall Coins
Here is something weird that Nintendo of Europe did recently. They gave me coins.
SWAG!
You may not be familiar with Operation Rainfall. It was basically a fan campaign to convince Nintendo of America to localize and publish 3 specific Japanese Wii games: Xenoblade Chronicles, Last Story and Pandora’s Tower. It started out with Xenbolade Chronicles being announced [...]
