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Archive for September, 2013

Hitstun’s Challenge (and Failure)

Posted on September 25th, 2013 by Hitstun

For the past four years, I’ve been doing a weekly Twitch stream where I attack a game in my backlog. If I pick the game and fail to finish it in reasonable time, my viewers get to pick next week’s game as punishment. That happened tonight. This time, I’ve put up a poll with five […]

Cookies n’ Creme Oreos

Posted on September 23rd, 2013 by Hitstun

Thanks to some creative food scientists, you can now go to Walgreens and buy Oreo ice cream flavored Oreos. Sure enough, they taste like cookies and cream ice cream. TVTropes calls this Recursive Adaptation. Another one I’d like to track down: the Words with Friends board game. Source: My phone camera and SPOTTED ON SHELVES […]

ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two

Posted on September 20th, 2013 by Hitstun

This blog’s cross-posting to Facebook is making me rethink how I want to post things. You should subscribe to my RSS feed instead, but I have too many friends that just use Facebook, and I want that to look nice too. Videos cross-post well, right? Enjoy some tool-assisted goofing off in fighting games. Source: ComboVid.com […]

Tower of Heaven

Posted on September 15th, 2013 by Hitstun

Tower of Heaven is a Game Boy-styled platform game with a great soundtrack that keeps adding conditions for failure. The controls are simple, but it’s easy to get near the end of a section and accidentally break one of the game’s many rules. Take ten minutes and try this out. Since then, they’ve made another […]

Imperial Boy – Vegetable Garden

Posted on September 11th, 2013 by Hitstun

Imperial Boy’s detailed, colorful background art makes for some great desktop wallpapers. He’s always got this sense of vertical scale that I’ve always tried to work into my level designs. Source: 霊雨さん設定資料集 – Ms.ReiuSetMaterialCollection (with Google Translate)