Games Robots Play

For fun I tend toward deeper games but I’ve been looking at a lot of web offerings lately, mostly out of professional curiosity. From a design perspective, Neptune’s Pride by Iron Helmet Games is a standout. For anyone interested in the fundamentals of game design, there’s a lot that can be learned from taking a look at how all the parts fit together here. For fun I tend toward deeper games but I’ve been looking at a lot of web offerings lately, mostly out of professional curiosity.  From a design perspective, Neptune’s Pride by Iron Helmet Games is a standout.  For anyone interested in the fundamentals of game ... READ MORE

    Solium Infernum, by Cryptic Comet, is another turn based strategy game that we’re running at the moment.  It’s our first game of it so everyone is just learning it now.   The story to the game goes something like you’re a powerful demon in Hell and there’s a power vacuum and you have to defeat the other powerful demons to be crowned the new ruler of Hell.  Its hex based, you only get a few Actions per turn (and EVERYTHING costs an Action).  There’s plenty of diplomacy in the game, and a little bit of combat.  You take an Action to get resources, and then recruit Legions to explo ... READ MORE

    Round here at the Robot Factory, we like to keep our gears turning over lunch breaks and after our daily work is completed by playing some games.  Some people like to run a quick heroic in World of Warcraft, or join up with their pod mates and kill each other in Battlefield 2.  Still others jump in their mining barges and harvest some Crokite in Eve-Online.  As for me and a few others, we get our kicks with some turn-based strategy games like Dominions 3 and the newly released Solium Infernum. READ MORE

I have recently gotten hooked on Forza Motorsports 3.  Our friends at Turn 10 & Microsoft Game Studios have really hit a homerun with the sequel to my favorite racing sim on the 360.  I was pretty addicted to FM2, and painted a bunch of cars, so when I saw how much they’ve expanded and improved Forza Motorsports3 to suit decal painters, I was instantly drawn in.  The first thing I had to do was make a Robot Entertainment logo! READ MORE