Review by Matt S. There are two things that are true about Shakespeare. One, more people should read, and learn to appreciate, the great bard than do. For far too many, Shakespeare starts and stops at the more “boring” end of school curriculums, and that’s a pity because learning to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I don’t have too much to say in this review, which is not in any way a reflection on the quality of Choices That Matter: And Their Heroes Were Lost. It’s just that it’s the third in a series that share the same structure and qualities,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S.There are three games in the Choices That Matter, which come to us from Aussie outfit, Tin Man Games. Over the last couple of months, the company has been quietly dropping them on the Nintendo Switch, and while they look modest (being pure text adventures), there is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Going way, way back into the history of video game RPGs, the original goal of developers was to take the pen and paper experiences that so many people loved through the 70’s and 80’s (most notably through Dungeons & Dragons), and then give them the chance…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a big fan of the old gamebooks that I obsessively consumed through my childhood, I was so impressed with what Tin Man Games did with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Taking the basic gamebook experience and turning it into a blend of board game and…
Read MoreNews by Matt C. Every week, there are approximately 2394875629384756 announcements for Switch ports of previously-released games. That’s great news for Switch owners, bad news for our wallets, and awful news for Lindsay, DDNet’s news editor. In an effort to cover the flood of announcements without cluttering the site or…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tin Man Games is one of the most prolific game developers in Australia. Originally the studio was a specialist in digital game books; the choose-your-own-adventure books in the 80s and 90s that also has combat mechanics so they felt a little like single player text RPGs.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tin Man Games has, for the longest time now, been producing high quality digital gamebooks for those of us that have fond memories of the 80’s and kicking back with a Fighting Fantasy or Choose Your Own Adventure and thumbing through the pages. We’ve reviewed a…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Neil Rennison has been a significant presence in the Australian game development scene for some years now. He, and his development brand, Tin Man Games, quickly built a reputation for producing excellent classical game books for mobile devices. More recently, the ambition of the studio has…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What an inspired way to evolve the humble gamebook. With The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Tin Man Games has taken its penchant for tapping into the nostalgia that us older (well, relatively) people have for growing up in the 80s, and managed to layer it with…
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