tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-323581092011-12-31T07:45:43.690-05:00Go Survivor Villians!Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-22845583414377300082007-08-14T17:12:00.000-04:002007-08-14T18:13:38.346-04:00

By now if you have a TV, internet access, or have been to an arcade in the last decade you've heard of the arcade game known as Dance Dance Revolution, DDR for short. The basic concept is to watch the screen for arrows scrolling past, and when they hit the top of the screen you step on the corresponding arrow.What you may not know is that one year after DDR's realese another dance game arrived on

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First: I told you so about the ties.Second: I'm loving the captain change and bribes happening. The prospect of captain change via expedition keep the game from becoming stale.Third: All around the show's really picking up, especially now in the fall-out of Sean going back on his word, causing a tie, and screwing up half the crew's plan.Only thing I have left ot be bitchy about is that I don't

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Ahoy all, I'm fresh from another episode of Pirate Master and still trying to get my land-legs back. Well this week there was no mutiny again. I really hope it's not one of those game mechanics that no one's ever going to use because they're scared. Most likely when the pirate voting crew shrinks to around 5 they'll be more talk of mutiny.Two main technical gripes this week. One, what a crappy

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Firstly, this is a long technical blog post about the board game "The Game of Life," so if that sounds lame, feel free to stop reading. Second, I'm basing this on the 1992ish era version, not the most recent 2005 update with new salary rules, career abilities, and house sales.So the other day I was thinking about the game of LIFE and how I always pick "college" because I assume you'd be a

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So, it's Thursday Night and that means that Mark Burnett's newest game show is premiering. Pirate Master is a reality game show in similar styles of other Burnett shows: Weekly outing, million dollar top prize, confessionals, drama, and obviously hand-picked awkward people who are doomed from the start. But more on Jon later.I was excited, but nervous about a new show in which contestants

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A game of good vs. evil, Mafia is a game of deception, perception, and murder. The setting is of a small town that has discovered that there is a secret mob amongst their citizenry and must hunt them down. The players are assigned one of two roles: Townspersons (good) or Mafia (bad). However, each player is only sure of their own role, making the mafia's identity a secret.During the day all

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Hey internet! It's almost summer and that means that I have too much time on my hands! Actually, right now I have some finals I should be attending to, but who cares right?New developments in G^4 world include a flickr account, and a tumblr! So be sure to check those out. I'm going to try to get my arse in gear as far as games blogging goes. I know I'm not these guys or this site, but I figure if

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-43069674936254114112006-12-13T20:49:00.000-05:002006-12-13T21:31:06.353-05:00

Two big budget Million (or more) jackpot gameshows with celebrities from the past hosting. Deal or No Deal is a fling, a no frills, practically brainless glam-tacular. It lives because it has endless special segments you can add. But these new contenders feature a trivia core, which makes me use a more critical eye when watching them.Let me start by saying that I am happy both shows exist, as

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Hey people. I am at Ithaca College as a first-year TV-Radio major and also work on the TV Station, ICTV. One show I worked crew on is Senior Pete Burg's project "The Race".This is, obviously, a show in the style of The Amazing Race, but only features teams running around New York. 6 teams set out on a four-day adventure that was fun but exhausting to run. ICTV has a live webcast on ictv.org and

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-46291459456412095782006-10-15T22:02:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:54:35.795-04:00

Alright, time for another game of my own creation.Tabletop Bottleball.It's similar in tabletop football in its main premise and core values of being simple to set-up and play. All you really need is a table and a bottle with some liquid in it and its bottle cap. The table would preferably have a trim color around the edge of the table that's different and about 3-4 inches in width. This is the

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Hey people, last week on survivor some people did things which I no longer feel compelled to report. Also last week, I learned how to play Quarto, and you should too. The picture on the right shows the board and pieces, taken from this lovely site. The object of the game is to form a row of four pieces on the 4x4 board in a row so that they each share at least one of for attributes: height (

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I just decided that summarizing entire Amazing Race episodes was a bit tedious and unnecessary, so future recaps will be more game-focused.Like this one.The no motorbikes rule in Vietnam was a good idea on the behalf of the producers. Both by a safety and drama-creating standpoint. It also goes to show a basic Amazing Race watching tip: if an obscure rule is referenced by Phil, it will come into

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Hello gamers, just wanted to update you on a game that I have adored, envied, and have been jealous of for about half a year now. This game is The Game. Though it seemed egotistically titled, form what I've seen it deserves the title.What is The Game? A series of riddles, clues, stunts, locations, races, and events that send teams of about 4 in minivans around for anywhere between 12 hours to 4

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This week's Survivor featured what may be the most thorough merge of tribes in survivor history, as it sought to balance genders and races in the new tribes. New buffs all around and people begin to strategize. In Raro, an alliance of four emerged, featuring Yul who owns a hidden immunity idol. Also finding a bond on Raro were the roller girl and Cao Boi, both being laid back. Tribes get settled

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-9574135140424904392006-09-27T19:25:00.000-04:002006-09-27T19:47:49.991-04:00

Awww yeah, this is the Amazing Race I fell in love with. TAR returned to its roots this week with teams visiting very foreign cultures and dealing with obscure forms of livestock and crappy vehicles.Teams fled out of China to the middle of Mongolia. On the way a bus and train seating situation bumped all the teams together to start Mongolia even. That's the thing about the Amazing race, unless

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After finally viewing the second episode of survivor, here are my thoughts.The show opens with a small section showing the mood in each tribe. Hiki, the black tribe, tries to bounce back from Tribal Council last week by getting the fire going. This brings them together and eliminates the male/female divide that was apparent last week. The Puka tribe once again grows sick of Cao Boi's ethnic

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-90098862522551964952006-09-24T22:43:00.000-04:002006-09-24T22:47:32.605-04:00

Ok, so due to events and groups I am involved in scheduling meeting times during the two shows I am regularly following, all updates regarding Survivor: Cook Islands and The Amazing Race will be seriously delayed. So hopefully you didn't use this site to keep up with who's on or who's off because I don't know. And that's not the point of this blog anyhow, this is game analysis. In theory. So

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AWWWWWWWWWWWW Yeah it's Amazing Race night! Just to get this out of the way, I am a huge AR fan, it's right after The Mole on my list. It's very classy, inspirational, and has Phil. Anyways, lets move on to the analysis.This race looked hot from the start. The teams were awesome, including a Muslim team of friends, a pair of recovered drug addicts, Miss USA-ers, a triathlete short one leg, and a

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Ok, not gonna lie, I was not in my dorm or otherwise in front of a TV at 8pm on Thursday night. Well, monitors in a studio, but not a survivor-viewing set. So once my audition for hosting on a local college "The Amazing Race" emulation "The Race" I ran for my dorm. Ok jogged. But I made it in time to only miss the stuff before the first commercial break. So I didn't get to hear Jeff go over

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-69724349255657430052006-09-10T12:34:00.000-04:002006-09-10T12:40:36.921-04:00

So to take up more of my free time and keep my game-making brain occupied I've decided to try to run some medium to high difficulty scavenger hunts on campus here at Ithaca. I'm going to at least pull one off, and would need about 4-7 staff at the least to help as well as 8 hunters. These would be clue-driven and require a laptop for looking up information. So if anyone from Ithaca College has

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-1156555137528517942006-08-25T21:01:00.000-04:002006-08-25T21:19:51.113-04:00

Ok, now that it's everywhere, or at least relatively commonplace, time to comment on the "twist" on this season's Survivor.Apparently the tribes are four tribes of five, racially divided into asians, latinos, blacks, and whites. This is a move for attention apparently from CBS because the not only get to use the word "race" a lot, but get to be high and mighty saying it's a social experiment and

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-1156306456069375212006-08-23T00:08:00.000-04:002006-08-23T00:14:16.086-04:00

Ok, so there was this game called Zombies Attack Ithaca, and if I had the link to provide you with I would in two seconds. Unfortunately the site seems dead (or undead, hur hur). Anyways, I was hoping to eventually enact at least one round of this game at Ithaca College at some point this year/play it myself.The concept of Zombies Attack Ithaca (held at Cornell) was ingenious. Players take on the

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-1155342007989513322006-08-11T20:02:00.000-04:002006-08-12T17:51:01.173-04:00

I know I'm not the only person to have tried this because I've seen other people set up websites and programs for this kind of stuff...Anyways, I decided late last summer that I love The Mole so much and was so pissed off the ABC killed it (even with celebrity mole giving them great summer ratings) that I would do something. I called my friend Scott and told him that I was going to do The Mole.

Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17404666149122280559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32358109.post-1155059319348373982006-08-08T13:06:00.000-04:002006-08-08T14:05:35.363-04:00

This is how I break down things...Reality TV showsrarely have any clear "goal"usually lacking in any type of competition, at least none of the producer's creationfocus on a person or persons in some type of niche (former celebrity, unknown sport, occupation, etc.)tend to bore me to deathExamples include: Real World, Monster Garage, The Osbornes, The Anna Nicole Smith ShowGameshowsa television

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Hi internet.I am here to attempt to create content that may be interesting to at least ten people.I figure if it's interesting to ten people, I'm not wasting the internet's infinite resources.As the titles states, I'm a gay gamer who enjoys gameshows, so the posts will either be about games I make/play, gameshows I make/think-up/watch, or anything else that probably have equal or lesser reading

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