“You mean you can't take less; it's very easy to take more than nothing.”
I’m going to suggest a radical idea. Every game should allow you to save at any point. Shock! Now obviously some games are better suited to a checkpoint system and quite often it’s personal taste. I’m not saying you should be able to save and restore at will as much as you like between checkpoints. [...]
I've just read Game Post-Mortem – Half-Life:Episode One. It's certainly an interesting read with some interesting ideas. However, I feel that it perhaps isn't as coherent a set of ideas as the author would like. Their evaluation of episodic content – that it perhaps only encourages formulaic and minimal advances – is certainly quite true. [...]
The Ship has had a “free week” this week, where basically you can download and play it completely free. But just for a week. Unfortunately I didn't notice until the weekend, that'll teach me not to read my feeds properly. The Ship is basically the ultimate murder mystery. Mr X., a billionaire, has invited you [...]