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Games

Game Info

• The Secret of Monkey Island (1990, 2009)
  • Gigi on Games - Special Edition (2009) Review
• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992)
  • Gigi on Games - Minotaur's Labyrinth walkthrough
  • Gigi on Games - King's Quest VI Review
• Spectre VR (1993)
• Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness (1994)
  • Gigi on Games - Warcraft 2 Expansion Human Level 12
• Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
  • Gigi on Games - Doom Easter Egg in Duke Nukem 3D
• Starcraft (1998)
  • Gigi on Games - Starcraft Expansion Terran Level 8
  • Gigi on Games - Starcraft Expansion Zerg Level 10
• Portal (2007)
  • Gigi on Games - Portal Testchamber 16 walkthrough
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima I - The First Age of Darkness (1981)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima II - Revenge of the Enchantress (1982)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima III - Exodus (1983)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1985)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima V - Warriors of Destiny (1988)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima VI - The False Prophet (1990)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima Worlds of Adventure I - The Savage Empire (1990)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima Worlds of Adventure II - Martian Dreams (1991)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima Underworld I - The Stygian Abyss (1992)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima VII Part I - The Black Gate (1992)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima Underworld II - Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima VII Part II - Serpent Isle (1993)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima VIII - Pagan (1994)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima IX - Ascension (1999)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima X - Odyssey (discontinued)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash (1983)
• Dino's Ultima Page - Lord of Ultima (beta)

Old Game Emulation

• DOSBox - can get just about any DOS game working.
• Sarien.net - play old Sierra games online.

Game Addiction

• "How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction?" (Slashdot, 2009-05-22)
• Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #12 on "addiction-based game design"

Game Parodies

• Progress Quest
• Peasant Quest

Game Design

• Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #12 on "addiction-based game design"
• 7 Commandments all video games should obey - Cracked.com - 29th April 2008

Game Programming

• Game Programming using SDL - the SDL graphics library is ideal for making games with C/C++.
• Toymaker - great site with tutorials about game development techniques as well as DirectX (among others).

Graphics Libraries

• Microsoft DirectX
  • DirectX: A Brief Overview [PPT], my 5-minute presentation for local Microsoft user group Tech Spark, which won the Tech Spark Speaker Idol Competition in February 2010.
• OpenGL
• SDL
• Microsoft XNA

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