Archive of entries posted on July 2007

better link than the other

I am supposed to just shake my head and move on… but I think others should as well. At least this link is better than the direct one, and says what should be said about this.

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Looks like the bug with the categories has cropped up again. I’m not sure how to go about fixing it. …and just as quickly, and confusingly, it has fixed itself.

thank you, Mrs. Rowling

Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I love it.

Watch out for the hallows…

… they’re deathly. This is the part where people smack their heads, and I laugh. Anyway, last week I was diverted from working on Stardust and pretty much everything else because I was re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6), in preparation for the Saturday release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [...]

in other news…

The Escapist has two articles from yesterday about people trying to blame their problems on games.

ok, got it

I came up with a codename for the side project mentioned in the last post. It is Stardust. It’s named after the Neil Gaiman novel (and movie, releasing August 10th in the US) which I haven’t actually read. I’m waiting until after I see the film so that the movie can be good and the [...]

a new side project

Since last Tuesday I’ve been working on designing a boardgame. Haven’t come up with a codename for the project yet, but I’m excited about it. I think it is the first side project I will complete (as progress on the design is going so well… I am hoping to have it playable by next week), [...]

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$17!

Yesterday I went to Best Buy to get Overlord. They were sold out, but I picked up Peaceful Warrior. So I went to the Circuit City a block away to see if they had it, and I had just been talking to my wife about how I found out that Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth isn’t available [...]

inspired

After writing that last post I was inspired to make a logo for that game company I made up, “Weak Euphemism for Something About A Penis.” Here it is. It features a clock.

links updated

I’m updating the links to the right. I just found out that Big Rooster (maybe I’ll start a game company called “Obvious Innuendo,” or just “Weak Euphemism for Something About A Penis”) is developing a video game adaptation of the boardgame Talisman, that it will be on Xbox Live Arcade, and also that they are going [...]