Like (the opposite of) eating glass
I've been up to things, Gentle Reader. Let me show you them!
I joined this group. I sat in on a Burning Empires game last week, and tonight I think we'll be playing the Red Box Hack. Or maybe I'll get drafted into running Faery's Tale. The scheduled game was Primetime Adventures, but we decided to go with something where it'd be more likely that everybody would be involved in every scene. The reason, you ask? We'll have a visiting 10-year-old whose never done the RPG thing before, and we want to keep her involvement high!
So John Wick has been putting a game design seminar up on YouTube. His latest video is about Jared A. Sorensen's three questions: What is your game about? How is your game about that? How does your game reward or encourage that behavior? Mr. Wick adds a fourth, crucial question: How do you make that fun? Whaddya know, I've been kinda thinking about that kind of stuff for a while! Go me! Expect two posts on these questions and Pirates (and your responses) in the near future.
I've been modding the heck out of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Only with other people's creations, so far. I've been working for two weeks on a post all about modding, but I decided to do this catcher-upper first.
In other video game news, there are some intriguing facts and figures regarding violent video games. Insert emoticon here, ya'll.
And finally, by going to Flickr, one can see a bit of what I've been doing instead of business stuff or game design. Flickr has also enabled me to make my Overclocking Database entry rather pretty.
I joined this group. I sat in on a Burning Empires game last week, and tonight I think we'll be playing the Red Box Hack. Or maybe I'll get drafted into running Faery's Tale. The scheduled game was Primetime Adventures, but we decided to go with something where it'd be more likely that everybody would be involved in every scene. The reason, you ask? We'll have a visiting 10-year-old whose never done the RPG thing before, and we want to keep her involvement high!
So John Wick has been putting a game design seminar up on YouTube. His latest video is about Jared A. Sorensen's three questions: What is your game about? How is your game about that? How does your game reward or encourage that behavior? Mr. Wick adds a fourth, crucial question: How do you make that fun? Whaddya know, I've been kinda thinking about that kind of stuff for a while! Go me! Expect two posts on these questions and Pirates (and your responses) in the near future.
I've been modding the heck out of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Only with other people's creations, so far. I've been working for two weeks on a post all about modding, but I decided to do this catcher-upper first.
In other video game news, there are some intriguing facts and figures regarding violent video games. Insert emoticon here, ya'll.
And finally, by going to Flickr, one can see a bit of what I've been doing instead of business stuff or game design. Flickr has also enabled me to make my Overclocking Database entry rather pretty.