Survival Crisis ZWhy are you weeping? | Submitted by the99th on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 19:10. |
James Silva could be the Quentin Tarentino of videogames. I can't remember right now, but I've probably laid that on a few other developers. Forget about that, this guy is it. He's coming out with The Dishwasher for XBLA later this year, after having won a contest where Microsoft deigns to work with you. He's a one man army, and while Dish looks pretty tight, Survival Crisis Z is a long-buried classic.
Looney Labs claims to have sold more than 350,000 copies of Fluxx, which is a truly remarkable number for a hobby game from a tiny publisher -- remarkable also because Fluxx is in some ways a game designer's game, exploring the nature of "the rule."
In a sense, Fluxx is a stripped down version of Nomic -- a self-modifying game with a small initial set of rules and the ability to change them. Nomic depends on player voting; Fluxx depends on card-play.
