This is a let's play video of Crush Deluxe. This overlooked classic from 1997 is a turn-based strategy game. The gameplay has a lot of similarities to a game like X-Com, but instead of a combat situation you're controlling your guys as they play a hyperviolent sci-fi sport with elements of football or rugby.
This episode wraps up the first season of the all-Nynax team. (The illustrious careers of Thusain, Thifu, and the other Marauders will continue with a second season, starting tomorrow).
My video is at DLive
This looks really nice, something that actually makes you think about your next move and putting a lot of effort to it. Too bad a lot of potential players might be put off by the "simplicity" here, but that's a rather good thing as I see it.
I've actually been doing some "historical" gaming posts lately, covering noteworthy games released in certain years (just made two about 93 and 2000), your profile does say that you design games - are you currently working on any projects? And just curious what are you more in favor of, are those retro kind of games or more into the modern stuff?
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I'm more of an analog game designer (i.e. RPGs and board games) than a video game designer. I don't know if my preferences map exactly along the retro/modern split. What I'm more in favor of is elegance and understandability in the gameplay. Philosophically I'm of the opinion that the important part of "playing a game" happens in the heads of the players, so I like it when the mechanics are clear to the players so they can meaningfully engage with the decisions they need to make. Some retro games are like this because they didn't have the ability to obscure how the game worked with lots of glitz or an overabundance of information because of the limitations of the time, but modern designers can design like this, too, if they're so inclined. For example, you could probably make a more "realistic" spots game with a super complicated algorithm "under the hood" that takes zillions of variables into account, but I think that would be a worse game than this one.
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