![]() From 2004-2008, he was the co-owner of Atlanta Game Factory, a brick-and-mortar retail store. He has written for a number of international hobby gaming periodicals and popular Web sites. Michael has been involved with writing professionally about games since 2002, when he busked for store credit writing for Boulder Games’ newsletter. It turned out to be a terrible idea, because the game was TSR’s Dungeon! - and the rest, as they say, is history. Sometime in the early 1980s, MichaelBarnes’ parents thought it would be a good idea to buy him a board game to keep him busy with some friends during one of those high-pressure, “free” timeshare vacations. It's fun to simply play it, and watch your dungeon thrive or get decimated. It's definitely a "sim" game, and as such I could give fuck all about winning strategies or competition. Or that demon down there at the bottom of the picture that looks an awful lot like the DUNGEON KEEPER mascot. There's lots of little details that really sell this game, like the pictures of clerical desks where you rest your minions between each turn. If somebody buys a trap, the trap makers get excited and sell the next one with a buy-one-get-one-free deal. The rulebook goes to comical lengths to explain why in the action selection spaces the first, second, and third spots all get different benefits. It even has worker placement, which I kind of hate.īut it also has heart, and plenty of narrative detail. Yes, it's a pretty hardcore Eurogame despite the setting and concept. The good news is that DUNGEON LORDS is great, and it's a perfect follow-up to GALAXY TRUCKER. I thought it was going to wind up being more like THROUGH THE AGES, a good game but something very Euro and not at all what I would expect a DUNGEON KEEPER board game to be. Images like this are why I wasn't terribly enthusiatic about Vlaada Chvatil's DUNGEON LORDS prior to release. Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated DirectX 9.Pictured is a game that doesn't look like any fun to me at all. ATI Radeon HD3800 series and Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (and higher) are recommended graphic cards. ![]() Graphics: ATI/NVIDIA/Intel dedicated, mobile or integrated graphic card with at least 256MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0 support. ![]() Processor: AMD/Intel dual-core processor running at 2.6 GHz (Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 are recommended) Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated DirectX 9 compatible soundcard ATI Radeon X1600, NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT and /Intel GMA X3100 are minimum recommended graphic cards. Graphics: ATI/NVIDIA/Intel dedicated, mobile or integrated graphic card with at least 128MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0 support. Processor: AMD/Intel single-core processor running at 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 are the minimum recommended) OS: x86 or 圆4 bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Win7 Steam account required for game activation and installation All other brands, product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Dungeon Lords is a trademark of Heuristic Park Inc. Licensed exclusively to Nordic Games GmbH. © 2015 by Heuristic Park Inc., USA © 2015 by Nordic Games GmbH, Austria.
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