I went to see Amanda Palmer at the Bodega Bar last Thursday. It was most excellent fun. She played standing up, so people could see her (stage was very low indeed), so her piano playing was only in the hit the keys very hard mode, which is a bit of a shame. But she made up for it by being relaxed, informal, engaged with the audience, playing ( Read more... )

I was looking through some old notes, and found a game I was had jotted down some ideas for a couple of years ago ( Read more... )

I've been reading a few books on Game Design recently. One of the more interesting authors in this area is Chris Crawford. There is one annoying element of his stuff. He assumes you are a young programmer who wants to do Game Design (with capital letters). He tells his readers to read some books, and worry about more than programming ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if there is such a term as push gaming, but if there was it would be temping to apply it to the "wargaming" discussions of possible modern civil war scenarios in the US on FOX news:

Seeing NIN last week turned out to be an emotional experience. I have listened to Trent's music for 19 years, usually during more stressful or unhappy times. Then after jumping up and down in a mosh, after barely eating anything (I hadn't eaten much as I assumed a big dinner would be had, instead no dinner was had), being overstimulated by noise, ( Read more... )

After some thought, I went and joined the blackout.

I have a couple of friends who are die hard Eve players. I kind of understand, but the game seemed too consuming, and a little boring when I played it.

But reading about it is just awesome. It tickles my nerdcore on some fundamental level.

Evidence: http://myeve.

Someone gave me a really good reason for keeping a regular blog. If the possible advantage to keeping a regular blog turns out to be correct (and assuming I keep updating often) I'll describe what it is at some later date ( Read more... )

Well, Josh has sent through press ready stuff for checking. So I have been quickly looking up stuff about about margins, trim lines and all around bleed. This is all good progress ( Read more... )

I quit from Travian last week ( Read more... )