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Might be a busy weekend
And not in the way I really hoped. Ah well. I'd already missed the window for getting up to the dcamville practice; it will be another while before I get back into armor, it seems ( Read more... ) -
Lessons learned from various places of employment.
I've had a lot of long compiles today, and Ian got me to thinking. I'm infliciting the results on all of you ( Read more... ) -
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There is a question game going around again. If you want me to ask you questions, comment here. You can answer here or in your own journal.
If you want to continue the game, go ahead.
This isn't the initial wording, but I don't always play by the rules.
These questions are from ianhess
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Five things make a postable day
Yesterday started off with a long conversation with my son on the nature of games. I had made the assertion early in the morning that most Facebook games were better described as toys. This lead to a long discussion which caused me to extend my categorizations to games, contests, toys, and tasks. I'm still trying to nail down a good set of ( Read more... ) -
Signal Boost: PMC
Ornoth Liscomb is an old friend from my pre-game programmer days. He is, and remember this is me saying it, one of the most engagingly eccentric individuals it has been my pleasure to know. For the last decade he has been involved in the Pan Mass Challenge; a two day, 200 mile bicycle ride to raise money for cancer research ( Read more... ) -
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Work has decided that a non-trivial part of our compensation for the next year will be based on written, measurable personal objectives.
I now have two tasks for the weekend.
1) Write objectives.
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Random update
I seem to do a lot of these. As an infrequent blogger, there is a desire to make my very sparse updates seem meaningful in some way. If I wanted to be writing meaningfully about my life, I'd have to get a better life ( Read more... ) -
Notes from an ongoing (work) conversation
I’ve been thinking and talking about some issues related to game storytelling. I propose that the following things do not work in games:
Unsympathetic protagonists.
There is a difference between thinking "Man, the main character is an asshole" and "Man, I'm being quite the asshole here." GF2, yes, I'm looking at you ( Read more... )