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MMGN.com: Avadon: The Black Fortress Review

MMGN.com: "Avadon: The Black Fortress is a welcome shift in genre compared to what has been flooding the market of late, and no doubt a wonderful trip down memory lane for all those old-school RPG gamers out there. It is one of few titles which prioritises story ahead of everything else, however a solid engine and several exciting gameplay elements make it a balanced all-round experience."

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Jeff Vogel: On Becoming a Game Designer: So You Want to Work in Video Games: Hardcore Droid

Since Pong was invented in the 1970s (which was, according to Wikipedia, in the previous millennium), Jeff Vogel has been obsessed with video games. Jeff was a nerdy kid.

Vogel played them throughout his childhood. As soon as he learned to program in BASIC, he began to write games. Of course, in the beginning, they were terrible, but he was blessed with persistence and perfecting any craft takes time. He'd write a game, throw it away, then wrote another. At the time, it was just a hobby. Making it a real career never occurred to him. He followed other paths.

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HardcoreDroid3762d ago

100 word limit, makes the title on the included image impossible to replicate here.

So, please accept the above title.

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The Most Hardcore Android RPGs Ever Made | Hardcore Droid

If hardcore is a thing measured by commitment and zeal than no gaming genre is more hardcore than the RPG. Scan any RPG-related forum and you’ll come away with the clear impression that RPG fans are among the most hardcore in the world. Which makes sense, because role-playing games are driven by story and story by character and if your average person is going to be loyal to anything it’s going to be to another person or the closest analogue at hand. And this is the sublime place where role-playing games, more so than any other genre, take us. Like other storied mediums, the best RPGs make us love them.

Unfortunately, when it comes to role-playing games, Android gamers have a few extra hurdles to cross before they can get to the good stuff.

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Avadon: The Black Fortress Update Released – Fantasy RPG For Macintosh

Spiderweb Software has announced the v1.0.4 update of Avadon: The Black Fortress, a free upgrade to the Macintosh fantasy role-playing adventure. This upgrade fixes bugs and typos and improves performance with the Magic Trackpad. Installing this update is recommended.

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