Owl Basket Blog – Sketchy thoughts about games, comics and life

Gaming

May 1, 2025May 2, 2025 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Morality (part 2) – Games have taught us #12

Can games teach you to be a better person? They did, at least for me. And here’s Ultima IV, the game that did it for me.

Gaming

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Morality (part 1) – Games have taught us #11

Can games teach you to be a better person? They did, at least for me. Let me introduce you to the one game that started it all: Ultima IV.

Gaming

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Improving my morning routine – Games have taught us #10

If you want to improve your life, it’s time to draw inspiration from video and computer games. Use your hobbies to your advantage!

Gaming

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

The Switch 2 Is Upon Us – Everything You Need to Know

There are things we know about Switch 2, and some things we cannot know. Here’s my analysis based on what we know about Nintendo.

Gaming

April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

What Influences You to Buy Games?

When you’re buying a game, what is it that influences you the most? Previews and screenshots, apparently.

Gaming

March 16, 2024March 16, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Review

River City Saga: Three Kingdoms throws Kunio and his classmates into ancient China. It’s time for secret staff technique!

Gaming

February 9, 2024February 11, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Sense of Mystery in Death Road to Canada

Greatest of games nurture a certain sense of mystery! Death Road to Canada is a prime example of such games!

Gaming

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Sense of Mystery – Game Design

In gaming, mystery is not merely an element; it is the lifeblood that keeps the player invested. The allure of the unknown is what makes games feel alive.

Gaming

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Do Games Even Need a HUD? – Game Design

A good chunk of your field of vision in games is hidden behind a HUD that you don’t even need.

Gaming

January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Should You Play Real Life Instead of Video Games?

There are people who think that you should use your time to do other things than play video games. Let me analyze those thoughts.

Gaming

January 2, 2024January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Storytelling in Games – Game Design

Games can tell stories in ways that movies and books can only dream of. And yet, games just want to mimic movies and books?

Gaming

December 15, 2023January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Minimaps Don’t Belong in Games – Game Design

Do you like having a minimap in your video games? I no longer don’t.

Just a thought

December 12, 2023January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Inspired by Sakurai

Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Kirby and the Smash Bros. series has indirectly inspired me to write stuff.

Gaming

October 9, 2023January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Real Life Anti-patterns – Games have taught us #9

You can learn many things from video games. However, some of those things can be wrong. Here’s some of those things and how to rectify them!

Gaming

June 26, 2023January 19, 2024 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Importance of Blindly Following Orders – Games have taught us #8

Why would you need to follow orders from some general? Games can explain why.

Gaming

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Gheralf H. Swiftwar

Quest Markers Are Ruining Games (and we’re on Youtube now)

This was supposed to be a post about Quest Markers, but it ended up as advertisement about our Youtube channel. Sorry about that!

Art & design

August 3, 2022August 28, 2022 Vayandil

I fixed the task list for our grocery store discount process

Products need discounting, but when should we do it? Task list helps streamline the process, but only if it is user-friendly. Let’s fix my employer’s task list!