wide·screen gam·ing fo·rum (wsgf):
[-noun] Web community dedicated to ensuring PC games run properly on your tablet, netbook, personal computer, HDTV and multi-monitor gaming rig.
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I have the great pleasure of being able to call MC Frontalot my friend. Well, maybe more of an acquaintance. Uh... He'll return my calls and texts, how's that? A while back I asked if he would be willing to do an interview with the WSGF and thankfully he agreed.
Hopefully this article brings some new questions and insight to the table. Some questions were asked with tongue firmly planted in cheek (and some were quite wordy), but even then Frontalot's answers were insightful. I had fun picking his brain, and hopefully you enjoy reading. And I hope I didn't annoy him too much with my follow up questions.
This article also coincides with the release of his latest video, "I'll Form the Head".
Sanctum 2 is a first person shooter hoard mode game with tower defence elements, where as the original was a tower defence with an fps element, confused? It's a matter of emphasise, in the first game the emphasise was on the tower defence aspect of the game, however in this one the focus is on the first person shooting with the tower defence very much playing a supporting roll. This basically means Sanctum 2 is a different game, and how much you like it will depends on if your here for the shooting, or the tower defence.
As for it's multi-monitor support, at the time this video was created the game is vertical minus by default, but that is fairly easily fixed (see below). Menus are stretched as are the comic book panels that deliver the story at the start of each level, the HUD however is correctly scaled but it's spanned, that said, allot of the important information is centred.
The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, feel free to like or dislike my video and comment are always welcome too.
While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.
An indie project from ex-Iron Lore developers (of Titan Quest fame) and currently undergoing alpha testing, Grim Dawn is a hack-'n-slash set in a bleak world of steampunk and dark fantasy.
StarDrive is an realtime 4X game, you can create your own space empire then you must Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way to control the galaxy. The multi-monitor support in this game is fairly good (great if you consider the fact it's made by one guy), the only stretching in the game is the backdrop, otherwise everything scales correctly and the 3d (it might be well drawn 2D) is horizontal plus. It does however suffer from the UI being spanned, this causes some issues with some interfaces placing information across all 3 screens which is not ideal, other interfaces are perfectly find being position accross the 3 screens in a game like this.
The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, feel free to like or dislike my video and comment are always welcome too.
While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.
Darkstone is a single player and co-op multiplayer action-RPG. Characters can be carried between play-throughs, with higher-level characters being able to play at higher difficulty levels.
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A video showing the differences in lcd panel types and what it mean to multi-monitor gamers. Gameplay is from Battlefield Bad Company 2, in which I now suck at.
Deathtrap Dungeon is a dungeon-crawling action-adventure based on the Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebook of the same name. Battle through a series of levels filled with traps and monsters.
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter. Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.
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Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.
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Auditorium is a music-based puzzle game developed by Cipher Prime. Originally released as a Flash game in April 2008, Auditorium was later released for iOS devices and then the PlayStation 3 and PSP in 2010. It was also released in 2012 for PC and Mac OS X. An Xbox 360 version was announced but, as of January 6, 2013, has not been seen.
