Ah, John C. Dvorak.  My week would not be complete without your divine presence.

Seriously, this guy is smoking the good crack, and I want some.

(For those not aware: this is the guy who claimed that the mouse would never catch on because "there is no evidence that anyone would want to use these things," that Apple would soon be dropping Mac OS X and ( Read more... )

Well, folks, Festival of the LARPs 2007 is still a few weeks away, but I have to say, things are looking pretty good.  We're up to 62 registered attendees - that's almost 3 times as many as last year!

Based on these encouraging numbers, I've plotted out a prediction for the future attendance of Festival:

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I was involved in something fairly awesome over the weekend.  To find out what it is, you'll just have to go here.  (Thanks,
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Hello, Intercon-goers!  So, I know what you're thinking: Intercon G just wasn't enough, was it?  If you're in the Boston area and you're still craving that LARP fix, have I got an announcement for you!

FESTIVAL OF THE LARPS 2007
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
April 13-15, 2007
Open to the general public and FREE OF CHARGE
http://www.brandeislarp.com

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is DONE!

Or, at least, all the code, graphics, music, and sound for the game is done.  Still need to print some stuff, not to mention, you know, RUNNING the game. :)

OK, I'll admit it - most LARPs don't require 3 of these:


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Addendum to last night's update about Fire on High: I've continued hacking on the software today.  Here are the things that now work that didn't yesterday:

• Warp drive/interstellar navigation
• Voice of the computer (about 50% of the way there)
  
• One of the major cutscenes.  This one makes another of the cutscenes real easy to knock out, and ( Read more... )

Well, the basic ship software for Fire on High is now mostly done, after some late-night hacking.

Things that work:

• Routing power to various systems
• Shields up/down
• Proton torpedoes
• Lasers
• Ship directional controls

Basic fact of arithmetic I seem to have forgotten lately:

• If someone used to be older than someone else:
• ...they probably still are.

So I discovered today that Vivendi Universal has been repackaging Sierra's old adventure game series (read: some of my favorite games EVAR) and reselling them, along with an integrated and pre-configured copy of DOSBox to run them on.  Because my Space Quest 6 CD has been too scratched to play for AGES now, I just had to run out to my local game ( Read more... )