10 by 10 room

sugar free, too

dev — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:26:14 +0000

sugar free, too

“Generation Trail”

dev — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:22:48 +0000

“Among my most prized t-shirts, is the “You Have Died of Dysentery” shirt pictured in this post. Consequently, I was very glad to see that Oregon Trail came out number one in Educational Game Research’s list of the top ten most influential educational video games of the 1980s list (via Sara Mead).” – Yglesias

What?!

dev — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:28:35 +0000

DBZ continues to emulate Real Life (i.e. internet memes + anime canon) in its video games.

dev — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:27:29 +0000

“Let me talk about some basic principles I have latched onto that lead to success with [D&D 4th edition]. The first is a simple truth: Learn from Video Games.
Video games have been creating interesting encounters for much longer than we have. For the most part role-playing games have really sucked at this for a long time.

— Advice from Keith S on D&D4

Calexico – Crystal Frontier

dev — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:25:45 +0000

gaming the crystal frontier

dev — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:25:30 +0000

“So Calexico is the greatest band in the world that you don’t listen to – you plebian fool – and I’ve always loved their border stylings and combination of rockingness, sadness, and dreaminess… I remembered that on the way over I had been bopping to my very favorite Calexico song: “The Crystal Frontier”.
That’s when something from that song, my experiences in Tucson, The Wire and Changeling: The Lost crossed over and made a spark – I was going to run a game where the player characters were polleros – immigrant smugglers who brought human cargo over the border. Dodging the police, avoiding entanglements in drug gangs, and their adventures in the creepiness of ghost towns, empty deserts, angry ghosts, and desperation.

— JDCorley’s thread on StoryGames (click through for more music links)

quality gameplay

dev — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:33:46 +0000

Willy Wonka 2112

dev — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:30:42 +0000

Rush’s epic 2112 sync’d up with a scene from Willy Wonka. For real.

MEGAMAN 9!!

dev — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:34:45 +0000

Megaman 9 is out for WiiWare!!

I am not nearly good enough to play it!!

space opera and jazz

dev — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:15:32 +0000

Of course, I keep returning to space opera as a backdrop for a lot of my internal aesthetics, fiction, internal mythology.

gottaknockalittleharder.ytmnd.com (Cowboy Bebop, “Goodnight Julia”.)

it makes sense now. In space, you can be alone.