Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Mission & Methodology
So, you find yourself reading my reviews and thinking, "Yea, but what phone does he have?" Let me tell you a little bit about my processes and philosophy.
As of October 1st (ish) 2010, I upgraded from my HTC Hero to an Evo 4G - and while I'm still dreaming about the 4G part (gripe gripe, complain), the phone is a dream for gaming and apps. At that point, I decided I wanted to do game reviews for Android. Most gaming blogs and review sites on teh Interwebz are disorganized and scattered, at best, so why not add my own spin? Besides, I have the attention span of a gnat, and would rather play 20 games for 10 minutes each, than 1 game for 2 hours. Obviously, Xbox 360 games are excluded from this logic.
Logically, based on the above information, any reviews you see from that date going-forward have been done solely on my HTC Evo 4G. It's a piss-poor sample size for any statistical analysis, but this blog is just me, and just my phone. If you want to buy me another phone to do reviews on, feel free to contact me.
Regarding content, I review the paid-app when I buy a game outright, or the free-app when I'm feeling miserly or the game looks so simple that I could get the gist in the demo-version. The review will link to the appropriate reviewed-version via QR code and Market url (click the QR code from your phone).
All text is written courtesy of yours-truely, and 95% of screen captures are done using the Google Android SDK (ddms.bat) method via USB cable. Android has a notorious problem, however, with fast-moving games and screen-tearing on captures. For these games, I'll either contact the developer for screens or find something else on the web that will do. Screens that I've "borrowed" will show an attribution url in the Lightbox caption. If you're deeply-offended by my use of a screenshot from your website, please contact me before you file a lawsuit and I'll take it down. I do not lay-claim to my own screenshot copyrights, so feel free to use them in your reviews as long as you plug my site.
Finally, a word about stars. I feel it is the case that the vast majority of game review sites on the web are far too lax in terms of rating games and handing-out stars. After-all, what's the point of a review site if all their reviews are 4-stars? I use a 5-star rating system, where 5-stars is damned near perfect, 3-stars is a good game but may not hold your interest for long, and a 2-star game is simply "meh"... but works. I've added the "number of stars" as labels so you can easily sort the good from the bad from the ugly.
As of October 1st (ish) 2010, I upgraded from my HTC Hero to an Evo 4G - and while I'm still dreaming about the 4G part (gripe gripe, complain), the phone is a dream for gaming and apps. At that point, I decided I wanted to do game reviews for Android. Most gaming blogs and review sites on teh Interwebz are disorganized and scattered, at best, so why not add my own spin? Besides, I have the attention span of a gnat, and would rather play 20 games for 10 minutes each, than 1 game for 2 hours. Obviously, Xbox 360 games are excluded from this logic.
Logically, based on the above information, any reviews you see from that date going-forward have been done solely on my HTC Evo 4G. It's a piss-poor sample size for any statistical analysis, but this blog is just me, and just my phone. If you want to buy me another phone to do reviews on, feel free to contact me.
Regarding content, I review the paid-app when I buy a game outright, or the free-app when I'm feeling miserly or the game looks so simple that I could get the gist in the demo-version. The review will link to the appropriate reviewed-version via QR code and Market url (click the QR code from your phone).
All text is written courtesy of yours-truely, and 95% of screen captures are done using the Google Android SDK (ddms.bat) method via USB cable. Android has a notorious problem, however, with fast-moving games and screen-tearing on captures. For these games, I'll either contact the developer for screens or find something else on the web that will do. Screens that I've "borrowed" will show an attribution url in the Lightbox caption. If you're deeply-offended by my use of a screenshot from your website, please contact me before you file a lawsuit and I'll take it down. I do not lay-claim to my own screenshot copyrights, so feel free to use them in your reviews as long as you plug my site.
Finally, a word about stars. I feel it is the case that the vast majority of game review sites on the web are far too lax in terms of rating games and handing-out stars. After-all, what's the point of a review site if all their reviews are 4-stars? I use a 5-star rating system, where 5-stars is damned near perfect, 3-stars is a good game but may not hold your interest for long, and a 2-star game is simply "meh"... but works. I've added the "number of stars" as labels so you can easily sort the good from the bad from the ugly.
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