As I browsed through the nearly 300+ entries for this year's IGF awards I noticed that there were very, very few historical strategy games. Granted, it's not like there has ever been a huge number entered, but I suppose the massive overall count just made their scarcity even more obvious.

Many of the folks entering in the IGF tend to be on the younger side, honing their coding skills with their entries. As such you just don't see a lot of 18 year olds that just learned BlitzBasic...

S.R. Krol

Since trading wood for sheep isn't my idea of a fun game I enjoy games that feature conflict. Something that we gamers never think about though is how important it is to have a worthy foe to make a conflict stimulating. Perhaps it's because the vast majority of our foes are the classic opponents: battle hardened troops of the Third Reich, flesh hungry zombies, or grotesque orcs.

On Halloween night I gathered with my friends for an annual tradition of horror gaming/movie watching....

S.R. Krol