Elysian Shadows

TheDarkJay, you're over here too? heh had no idea :P Yeah, I joined after I saw (I think it was) you post a link as it looked interesting :) As for playing games that you always lose: Dwarf Fortress. One of my favourite games, but if you find the fact that your steel-armoured dwarven champion axe-d...

I once wrote on morality systems in a blog post, if I can dig it up...here we go: I'm not going to deny it, I find moral choices in video games fascinating. On the one hand, having options and therefore the illusion of control is very nice. On the other, for f*cks sake video games, why is the choice...

Games which, like novels, have a primary purpose of simply making you think . Take for example, Planescape: Torment. A cult classic, with very little emphasis on combat and much ultimately on a simple question: "What can change the nature of a man?" A question with so many answers that rev...

Compiler: Newen.net's precompiled Mingw32 gcc The simplest way to get the latest gcc version that I've found and it actually updates regularly with the latest version of gcc, for that sweet sweet C++0x support it provides. IDEs: NetBeans Cross platform and cross-language with C++ autocomplete suppor...