Archive for February, 2010

Flotilla: Orbital Battleship Manoeuvres

February 28th, 2010

My flotilla of three ships are facing off against an equally sized group of enemy ships of varying size and ordinance. I’ve just encountered a fleet of space pigs who’ve asked for my protection against some hostile pirates and I’ve chosen to do the right thing and step in and kick some pirate arse.

Flotilla Screenshot

Rastafarian Cats. Yep.

Flotilla Screenshot

"Ding" "Ding" - the critical hit sound is glorious.

I quickly assess the situation that the game has put in front of me and decide to order my beam frigate to move at flanking speed to try and get behind the enemy position so that I can use it’s superior firepower on their weaker rear and bottom armour. I make sure to orientate my ship such that I present only the front armour to my enemy. I take my two smaller destroyers (the default ship, small, fast and armed with slow firing but powerful nuclear missile batteries), order them to move and fire and set co-ordinates opposite the beam frigate.

With my genius pincer movement planned out I end my turn and get ready to watch as my plan is acted out in 30 seconds of real time full 3D space warfare set to a beautiful classical piano score. Both your’s and your enemy’s turns happen simultaneously with no opportunity to alter your plan for the full 30 seconds once you end your turn.

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Diver2 by Farseer Games

February 28th, 2010

This game is certainly NOT casual. It’s absolutely crushingly hard in fact but it’s a huge amount of fun (as long as you’re not on a Laptop without a mouse!).

Diver2 screenshot

A typically brutal level in Diver2

Diver2 Screen shot

Can any one beat this?

Diver2 presents a number of increasingly hard arenas through which you must dive. You get points for how close to vertical you are when you finally enter the water between two marker buoys. The number soon losing all meaning when you realise that you’ve done the same level 420 times over and you’ve yet to even land in the scoring zone. Simply beating the level is plenty good enough! It took me nearly 2 days to complete but it was very satisfying.

It’s worth mentioning that this game needs that weird Silverlight thing by Microsoft.

Anyway, check it out and see if you can beat my scores.

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Welcome!

February 28th, 2010

Hi! Welcome to Lomocotion.com. This blog has been created to fulfil my desire to talk about and discuss indie, casual, flash, Xbox live arcade and PSN video games and the indie gaming scene.

Having just left a job in the games industry working on a casual games website I felt that I needed an outlet to enthuse about games. Seeing as my new job is in social media marketing I figure running a blog is the best way to get my words out there!

I’d like to thank Harmony Studios for the hosting and for setting up this wordpress install and Daft Tom for the fantastic logo!

Oh and if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback or if you’d like me to talk about your game – head over to the contact page!

Thanks for stopping by, lets see how this goes!

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