The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 25 September 2005 / John
Had a bad day on Friday. I’d been feeling a bit unwell on Thursday morning and on and off during the day. It got bad enough to prompt me to make a doctors appointment on Friday morning. So, in I toddled. The doctor was making a flap about blood clots, lungs and “why didn’t you
Game Diary / 22 September 2005 / John / 0
Mission 12 is an evil git. Basically, I’ve to pick a squad of five (given that I only currently have five chars, it’s not tough), equip them and then defend the base from an invasion. First attempt I made resulted in a humiliating massacre. The enemies are all invading from the North and I made
Books / 21 September 2005 / John / 2
I just know this is going to irk the purists, but then what are purists for if not irking, eh? Finished this last night. Well, I actually finished it about twenty years ago, but I saw it on the shelf and thought – ‘ohhhh, I liked that as a lad, I’ll read it again’. What
Ramblings / 21 September 2005 / John / 0
“so what?” you ask. Nowt. I’m just saying. I’ve added a ‘Books’ category to the blog. Given that I spend more time every day reading than playing games (no, really!) and I finish more books than games (even the bad ones) I thought I may as well. I’m not going to attempt to populate it
Game Diary / 20 September 2005 / John
VICTORY GET! Again! Droids recovered (largely – lost two of em and hence failed to get the top ranking, but never mind). So, I’ve been promoted to Lieutenant, and now get the full on equip and place squad menus at the start of each battle. So, chapter 12 a-go-go!
Game Diary / 20 September 2005 / John / 0
Aaargh! That’s another lunchtime been completely devoured. Mission 11 (I think – I keep losing count) involves recovering some bots from an empty factory. Needless to say, it doesn’t stay empty for long. Anyway, I have a whole wheen of the little beggars all powered up and armed to the teeth. I only have one
Game Diary / 19 September 2005 / John
Well, that was easier than expected – but I only got an advanced not an Elite 🙁 Mostly because I didn’t wipe out the whole enemy presence, but merely gubbed the woofy things and made good my escape. Anyhoo, chapter 10 complete and I’m off to the bot factory.
Game Diary / 19 September 2005 / John
VICTORY GET! Chapter 9 has been pwn0red. Chapter 9 was essentially a rescue mission, so armed with two new squad members, it’s now time to FLEE! So I’m FLEEING. I have to cross a valley to get back to base, but I want to kill off any pursuing woofy things so they don’t follow me
Games Development / 19 September 2005 / John / 0
From this section of the site, you can download the free video game remakes I’ve written. I haven’t done any new ones in quite a while, but all the old RetroSpec titles are here. Sadly, the source code to these was lost in a house fire, so if you find any bugs – tough 🙂
Game Diary / 19 September 2005 / John
Still on the rescue mission – it’s a little tricky. The map is pretty big and there seem to be quite a few nasties lurking around. Also, having a bigger team (5 squad members now) makes each turn take a good deal longer to work out. Unlike games like Laser Squad Nemesis, which are structurally