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Game Development. Other Gaming Equipment. Table Games. Each of these is named and illustrated and is also marked with one or more Taste Icons of which there are twelve in the game. Each Guest is named and illustrated, given a card colour and suit, the Taste Icons that he likes and dislikes as well as his favourite desserts.

Some Guests have more than one Favourite Desserts. To win Just Desserts a player needs to serve the right desserts to the right Guests. This requires that he successfully serves three Guests of the same suit or five Guests of different suits. At game start each player receive three Dessert Cards and three Guest Cards are played face up unclaimed. On his turn a player draws a new Dessert Card and a new Guest Card then does one of three things.

Having successfully served the Guest, the player adds her toward his winning total. Now The Hippie has two Favourites—Neapolitan Ice Cream and Banana Split—and if a player can serve her one of these, he not only adds The Hippie to the Guests that he has successfully served, he also gets a Tip, which means that he can draw an extra Dessert Card. As soon as another Guest has to be discarded, the previous Guest has left and cannot be claimed.

This then is the basic game. Three advanced rules provide player interaction. Unfortunately, the player does not get a Tip for this. Physically, Just Desserts is nicely done, with cheery, full colour artwork. The first snowfall in the Sahara Desert in 37 years fell this week. See also: Wild ARMS' Filgaia is a world that varies between a decaying, war-ravaged desert wasteland to lush and lively and back again over multiple games.

This also leads me neatly to my next entry One pattern that you may be beginning to spot is that RPGs tend to have some pretty iconic deserts. However, what the desert planet of Motavia lacks in gaming originality it certainly makes up for in scope. Motavia , also known as Mota, features in several of the series' games. At first, Motavia is a planet of arid desert and pretty much nothing else save some mountains and scores of impassable antlions.

Spaceports, villages and wandering travellers are a feature of the planet; however, this all changes as between games the planet is terraformed into a planet of lush greenery and oceans, to such an extent that you wouldn't be able to tell deserts were even on the planet. This does not last in the games, as in the third millennium we find the planet has once again become a barren land, although its ocean is retained. Certainly, a lot has gone on in years.

I think this is what makes this planet particularly special. Rarely do we see entire fictional worlds transfer between games within a series, especially ones where such vast changes occur between entries. Moreover, unlike the world of Filgaia in Wild ARMs , this world is obviously meant to be a desert in the first place, and therefore the world itself is unique in this respect. As such I feel it deserves to be recognised. See also: The third Phantasy Star contains another desert world, Aridia, although I feel this world is nowhere near the calibre of one that features in multiple games I find the fact I am even writing this list rather ironic, as I have actually never ventured into a desert unless you count the town centre of my hometown, Wrexham.

I certainly haven't experienced such scorching heat that I feel that my face is on fire and my brains are slowly turning to porridge before my very eyes. However, if a gamer really wants that authentic "I-want-to-melt-into-the-sand" feeling that only a desert can provide, then Breath of Fire 3's Desert of Death delivers in spades. This place could not be more aptly named. A menacing and dangerous place, the player's party has to cross it in order to reach an Oasis.

However, being a desert, you must avoid the heat of the day and thus the player must not only travel by night in order to avoid said flesh-melting scorch, but also conserve as much water as possible in order to not, well, die. And you have to follow stars in order to find wherever the hell you need to go. And some of those stars are red herrings. And there's a boss half-way through, and one of your party collapses from heatstroke. This desert is certainly tedious fun for the whole family!

What makes this place stand out is that, unlike many deserts in other RPGs, there are unique and realistic gameplay mechanics that ensure that the desert is memorable and challenging for the player.

The game forces you to think about every step you take as one wrong move can force you to start over - truly this is one of those areas that every RPG should aspire to.

This is a truly deserving and deadly desert. And of course I'd do anything for her. I'd search the moons of Endor. I'd even walk naked through the deserts of Tatooine See also: A much more tiny desert lies in Chrono Trigger , where one leaves a certain robotic companion to create a lush forest many years in the future Nothing screams "apocalypse" more than a desert.

Anyone who has read Cormac McCarthy's The Road knows that the wastes of a once prosperous nation is teeming with danger, hunger, misery and probably death. However, nuclear war-related Armageddons are thankfully still within the realm of fiction, yet the terrifying possible future that awaits us in the form of the Fallout universe remains an excellent example of what could heaven forbid happen!

We are landed in the shoes of a courier in the city of New Vegas, who is attacked by a mobster named Beny voiced by goddamn Chandler Bing. After being rescued, you then go after Benny for revenge - but only after traversing the terrifying wastes of a USA ravaged by war. Although relatively unscathed compared to the rest of the USA, and though filled with slightly fewer super-mutants, the wasteland is filled with several warring factions, and perhaps even more frightening monsters such as scorpions, deathclaws and ghouls, and so death is only a step away.

What is great about this particular entry is how familiar the location feels. As stated earlier, the area has survived much of the nuclear fallout seen elsewhere in the universe, and as such the wasteland feels alive. Animals still survive there, and the water is still mostly safe - it feels like a natural expansion of the Fallout world and is a welcome relief from the traditional depiction of a post nuclear-war world.

It's certainly unique, and certainly iconic. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. As a young gamer, two games stood out as ones that were essentially mythical - Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. With The Last Guardian having been released recently, propelling the studio behind the series to new and magnificent heights, I feel that I have to talk about a desert area that makes the middle game of that particularly glorious trio stand out magnificently: the Desert of the Dead.

However, it's not really the desert that's the star of the show; it's what you have to deal with when you get there. The world of Shadow of the Colossus is vast; your aim is to trek between huge tracts of lands hunting the enormous and intimidating colossi that wander the land. In the game, the desert is surrounded by forests and mountains, which disappear as you canter on your horse into the ruin-strewn desert.

However, your arrival heralds Phalanx, the most enormous Colossus, and as you plow after him the scale of the desert becomes clear - you end up leaping onto its back and in its efforts to shake you off, it just keeps climbing higher, and higher, and higher What people love about the game is just how beautiful it is yet how straightforward it is.

The locales are simple, but the sheer amount of action and glorious scenery you get to experience is second to none - there are no surprises in explaining why the game has become part of folklore, and the battle with Phalanx in the desert is just one part of that. The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz and the sky with no clouds They need to come up with some more unique locales There is rarely anything more satisfying than staring longingly at beautiful scenery.

The sense of unimaginable satisfaction as the sun sets after a long summer's day over a picturesque meadow, or the quiet reflection of gentle sunshine on a meandering meadow, often make me feel glorious. When a video game can make you feel like that, it's often even more special, and Journey is one of those examples. Indie games often shine and become well known for their art style.