People posted on their blogs a lot this week! Apologies in advance for this being a long one. If you enjoyed any of these blogs, subscribe to their RSS feed and consider doing your own blog roundups since Google sucks now.

Talkin’ About Old Games

So many folks talked about old games this week that I thought it deserved its own section.

Jefklak’s Codex reviews Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance.

The Genesis Temple goes into the history of the very weird NES game Monster Party.

Badger Trebuchet Diagram No. 17 talks about the old Windows rpg Castle of the Winds.

Final Fantasy VIII Is the Best has been incredible active this last week. I can’t even link to one post because there’s been a ton in the last week. Just go check it out.

Games from the Black Hole praises the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Adventure.

Renga in Blue plays through a text adventure I never heard of, Ship Adventure, from 1982.

The Good Old Days reviews 1996’s Lords of the Realm II.

Dev Logs

Dev logs are the best. I love seeing how people are doing on their games, it allows folks to go into much more details than they could on micro blogging spots, and writing my own has been good motivation for me on my game. Highly recommend doing your own if you’re thinking about it.

David Lindsey Pittman goes into the work he’s doing on Eldritch 2‘s hub spaces and trying to make the game more of an immersive sim.

Meredith Gran is working on the Perfect Tides and talks about writing.

Harris Powell-Smith talks about writing characters for their upcoming interactive fiction game Honor Bound.

Tom talks about making a homebrew game engine for the Dreamcast.

Sarah talks about making a new rpg for the Commodore 64.

Other Stuff

Brianna talks about C++ game engine libs

Prismatic Wasteland has two great posts about playing tabletop rpgs. One is on how to play as a ghost after dying and the other goes into how they let players have vampire characters. Great stuff! Go check out their games.

I keep discovering great music through the Morning Music blog.

The Museum of Screens has an article about how people are porting their old Flash games to Steam.

ghoulnoise has a very lovely post about guitar mods and a few other things.

Indie Tsushin has an interview with ishinoura about the one-dimensional roguelike game Yumeiri.

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation is looking for a new treasurer and tech officer.

Rob talks about the 1994 horror film Pumpkinhead 2. Did you know this also had a really bad FMV FPS? I don’t recommend it!

Not Blogs

Here’s other things I liked this week that aren’t blogs

Thinky Games published a new games database for puzzle and adventure games. I think super specific databases are nice and often catch things the larger and more general ones don’t.

I have gotten really into Answer Phone lately, my friend’s project where he uploads old cassette and answering machine tapes he finds at thrift stores.

Not new, but POINTCLICKING has a lot of nice adventure game fan art.