Monthly Archives: June 2008

HOWTO: Fix your Guitar Hero strum bar

Let the playing commence again.
In a previous post I said I couldn’t play Guitar Hero anymore due to the fact that I wrecked the strum bar by playing one too many shreds. What was happening was not all clicks (physical upstrums or downstrums) were translating into strums in the game, virtually making the whole thing [...]

Adventures in impossible constructions

Echochrome. I’ve been looking at this PSP game for a while, and it looks very fun. With gameplay revolving around traversing geometric objects by turning them into impossible constructions, it’s just like my current obsession. It’s also remarkably similar to Fez, at least in terms of moving the camera around to create new dimensions in [...]

I dreamt I was swimming.

What does that mean? I found out. Emo haha.

Game of the Month #3: Guitar Hero

I no longer play Guitar Hero. But that’s due in no part to it being a terrible game. I don’t play anymore because I wrecked my little plastic guitar by playing too much. Strictly speaking my fake guitar still functions, but the strum bar won’t register every single strum anymore; its sensors have conked out [...]