“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)
10 by 10 room
October 8, 2008
gaming the crystal frontier
September 14, 2008
ZOMG POWERGLOVE TOURING WITH DRAGONFORCE!!
PowerGlove, Boston’s brutal game-metal band, it touring with their blood-brothers Dragonforce!! They’re coming to Worcester!!
September 11, 2008
two game soundtracks
EJHeil’s 3:16 mix:
JDCorley’s “Coyotes” mix:
May 7, 2008
Muse – Knights of Cydonia
The best western kung-fu sci-fi rock opera, ever. It certainly was an inspiration for a game of Mist-Robed Gate.
(The raw awesome of this video was basically the inspiration for restarting this blog a ways back. Original credit to jrients for posting it.)
April 14, 2008
April 2, 2008
BARD has joined your party
World of Warcraft introduces the Bard Class. via gamegirladvance.
March 18, 2008
ones and zeroes
Music video: “Digital Sea” by Thrice.
February 29, 2008
rock with THE PROTOMEN
MegaManCore from Nashville. Start with “Due Vendetta”, but it gets better from there.
May 16, 2006
maximum rock and roll
octaNe is the rock-and-roll game of post-everything trash culture america. It’s hardcore, man. Now, hamsterprophet (aka Nathan Paoletta) presents FilliN’ Up: Situation Creation for OctaNe, a very rock-and-roll mod for octaNe.
So, you and yer buds wanna play a game of OctaNe, right? Well, yer gonna need some Rock’N'Roll. So, you guys all figger out what Rock’N'Roll song y’all like – it’s gonna kinda be the basis of yer game, so make it a good one (hint: anything by Johnny Cash or Elvis is a rockin’ default). So, y’alls siddown with a piece o paper and a pen, and y’all listen to this Rock’N'Roll song. Pay attention!
WRONG. Rock is NOT about paying attention. How are you going to pay attention if you’re busy drinking PBR and fighting the Man? (Wait, am I thinking of PUNK? Maybe…)
Speaking of Nathan, we may be having a new contributor to the 10×10room, but I don’t want to mention who it will be yet. It’s a surprise!