Saturday, September 26, 2009

Interesting discovery.

Lugaru, by an independent game developer who might or might not be unhealthily furry. Any game about rabbits, anthropomorphic or otherwise, is obviously moving in the long-eared shadow of Watership Down, but Lugaru handles it very gracefully. It's about the exploits of a lone hlessi avenging his mate and kit (not surprisingly, anthropomorphic rabbits don't have litters), rather than the activities of a full warren; but that's by no means a fault, and it has the best fighting-game engine that I know of (although the tutorial is a little overwhelming).

Update: on encountering a guard named Fiver at the capitol, I think it's fairly safe to say which book inspired these people to put Jackie Chan in rabbit ears.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Garbage in...

Garbage out, but if you give it an actual disease, the semantic database actually works.