Studio Life
The Games People Play: Part VI
World of Warcraft Warcraft has been the game that has taken up most of my lunches over the past few years (and my time at home too) and it's been something I've really enjoyed. When WoW first came out my oldest son and I played together and joined the same guild. He was 14 and it was a great way to bond with him and share experiences to help him through [...]
The Games People Play: Part V
Age of Empires (Age of Mythology) These games were the beginning of what I call the Vondrak domination era. Bob Love and I were bitter rivals at this game and we played EVERY lunch hour. Then one day, a young upstart named Dan Vondrak started at Raven and we asked him to play with us - and the next day he did. We thought we'd 'take it easy' on him so [...]
The Games People Play: Part IV
DIABLO I & II As you can see by my list thus far, I lean heavily towards fantasy games which is why I had a lot of fun with the Diablo series. We had a group play together and that was such a blast as we churned through the dungeons. The hard part was trying to be fast enough to grab a gold or yellow item when it dropped. It was [...]
The Games People Play: Part III
WARCRAFT II At Raven we used to have a night called "Warcraft Wednesday" where 8 of us would play from 5:00 pm until 10:00 pm and it was a blast. I tended to like the Horde (which I still do) and there were many stories that came out of these battles. One was that I used to scare people as I yelled "they're in my town!" followed by some flowery @$@% [...]