Catching up (in lieu of better titles)

[zhai]

Despite all blogular evidence to the contrary, I am merely buried, not dead -- and nearly emerged. Since last we met, there was Thanksgiving (driving to San Diego), Christmas (see "Thanksgiving"), my father's 70th birthday (flying to San Diego), three Escapist articles, a two-month-long still-in-action sinus infection ("chronic sinusitis") with

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[rhena]

Thank you for "When the Stars Align" and for the mention of it here. In my universe, Starflight was neither under appreciated or unremembered. In the early 80's I spent $2600.00 at Radio Shack for a Tandy 1000 much to my mother's dismay. We were both new to computers and she had no use for them:) Being 20 or so and newly jobbed it was a splurge that I had to have. Not long after getting it I bought two games, Starflight and Below the Root

[zhai]

Thank you so much for this comment. I had no idea about your or your mom's history with the game, and it's deeply touching. And tragic that the hurricane killed the Tandy! I will certainly pass your note along to Greg, and am sure it will mean a lot to him, to put it lightly. :)

[zhai]

Thank you! *waves*

[jirel]

Just for grins and giggles - if you knew someone (not me thankfully) enamored of a published game system (RPG) that doesn't seem to be loved by everyone else - but they DO love his setting, what would you do? Its not like I really know him well enough to have a hard and fast talk with him (I've only play tested the second revision) but the only reason most of the people I know play it is they love the setting. Helped point out a lot of flaws in the play testing and I've heard him say that most people play it with different dice then the ones recommended - just give up and let it be? Kind of bugs me because I feel like he could have a real winner, but then I'm not that up on these things either.

[zhai]

Hmm. If it's setting, I think I might encourage them to put the world in fiction form, or allow select others to do so. That can grow the setting outside of the game, which is beneficial to him, and has the side benefit of making it more likely that other people might pick it up and use it as a setting with one of the universal systems.

Ultimately, though, that's a long road, and if he's not fully committed to it it probably wouldn't be a 'winner' anyway. But there's always a chance. :) If he has it played, that's pretty close to shared universe already.

[anonymous]

Re: "Riot Grrrls Wanted". I just thought a game deserves some mentioning when it comes to exploring what it's like to be a female in a prisoner-like hostile environment, the Playstation 2 survival horror Rule of Rose.

It did not deal with the adult world, in the way that a hostile work environment would; rather it had captured this mood of what living in a 11, 12 year old girls' Lord Of Flies society would be like. The sort of horror that many women who lived through that as a teen would truly understand, in the way that many of my male counter part friends didn't.

That game doesn't have the most polished game play out there, still I highly recommend it as a largely female perspective, yet completely non condescending video game. The sort that I wish I had access to at that age.

-Sel

[devilwrites]

I am ridiculously behind in reading both Facebook and LJ, but these sales you refer to, did you send them my way for the Odyssey LJ? If not, could you?