Locomotive Werks review

Buy Locomotive Werks Board Game on Amazon Published in 2002 by Queen Games and designed by Dieter Danziger, this economic game pits 3 to 5 players as investors in building factories that produce locomotives and aim to sell them to a dice-driven market where turn order is critical. Locomotive Werks’ main gimmick is “obsolesce”; the […]

Super Bodyguard (2016) – Review

Mandarin with English subtitles Directed, written and produced by Yue Song Starring: Yue Song, Xing Yu, Collin Chou, Michael Chan Link: IMDB Link: Trailer – Youtube “An insane, rip-roaring, ultra-fast old-school Hong Kong action film that hides flaws in editing, poor continuity, storyline and character development. In this heddy mix of “comic-book” superhero action, streetfighting, […]

Greed Inc Payout Calculator – Javascript

This simple tool today that I wrote for the game Greed Incorporated using Javascript rather than using the payout chart Link: https://jsfiddle.net/worchyld/85khszq3/

Review – Jason Bourne (2016)

Movie Review – Jason Bourne (2016) – Matt Damon returns as the elusive black ops operative Jason Bourne. But is the movie as good as many expect?

Scarface PS2 – Retrospective review

Recently I’ve been re-playing the 2006 Playstation 2 game Scarface, to 100% completion. It took me approximately less than 2 days to do. I had a blast, but there are things wrong with the game that I hadn’t noticed when I first played the game. It may seem odd to replay a game that is 10 years old […]

A look at UK Games Expo 2016

Now in its 10th year, the world famous UK Games Expo is the biggest hobby games convention in the UK, showcasing various thousands of card, board, role-playing, miniature, and family games games under one roof. With over 170 exhibitors, publishers, retailers, independent designers and artists; the event is set to the be the largest yet. […]

What cables do you need to develop for Apple TV 4th generation?

Having recently bought an Apple TV 4th generation for development purposes, I thought it might be useful for other developers who wish to dabble with the system to know what cables are needed to deploy your apps from XCode to the actual device. Notably the Apple TV (4th Gen) doesn’t actually come with the cable […]

My recommended economic boardgames

A list of recommended economic board games that totally replace Monopoly.

NSPredicates – SUBQuery on a parent-child relationship

I am currently working on a game where there is a parent-child relationship in a quite small array where; A `Group` (parent) has many `Child` objects where 1 `Child` object can be owned by only 1 `Player` and a `Player` can only ever own 1 `Child` per group In the game, a `Child` object is […]

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