Category Archives: Reviews

Flying to the Sun with Icarus

Welcome Time Wasters! This week’s time waster is a little different than what I noramlly play. This week I spent my time with Icarus. Icarus is a game that is based off of the old myth of what happens when someone flies too close to the sun, except humans are replaced with paper airplanes. Icarus is a game that was made for a game jam. For those who don’t know, game jams are typically events where developers are given restrictions and are told to make a game in a certain amount of time. This particular game jam had developers creating a game … Continue reading Flying to the Sun with Icarus

A Kitty Dreams of Wasting Time

Welcome Time Wasters! This week it was hard to get much of anything in terms of gaming done because I was too distracted by E3. I’m a Wii U owner and I’m definitely excited for almost everything Nintendo announced. Maybe this E3 will be the proof that some people needed to know that the Wii U isn’t going to fail. Either way, I’m getting off track. This week I played a small browser-based game titled A Kitty Dream. As the name implies, the game takes place inside the dream of a kitty that then goes to sleep in its own dream … Continue reading A Kitty Dreams of Wasting Time

Tabletop Simulator Is More Than Just A Game

The new Tabletop Simulator is was created based on a successful Kickstarter program. It provides the framework for players to create their own board games, and then play them in multiplayer sessions with others. There are no rules other than the ones you make. It can be a lot of fun, but only if you make it that way.