Joystiq sat down with producer Joaquin and programmer Markus Jost at GDC this year to talk about the game, that the process was like, the innovative "Play By Message" feature, and how it was all born out of herd of sheep and a German Shepherd.
XMNR: A couple of stealth Xbox LIVE Arcade deals have popped up that cuts $10 off Runic Games' Torchlight and Croteam's Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter along with deals for other Xbox LIVE Arcade games.
Microsoft Research isn’t in the habit of making XBLA games. But The Path Of Go isn’t a normal XBLA game. Although the platform is no stranger to boardgames of many types, few have such a weight of pioneering AI research behind them: behind the unassuming façade of this take on the 2,500-year-old Chinese game lies an attempt to address one of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenges.
Eurogamer writes: What's your favourite loading bar? One of PopCap's, perhaps? You know, the ones with those cute little jokes. Or how about that one that popped up way back in the first 3D Indiana Jones game - the one that riffed, wittily, on the movies' map sequences?
