Last week my pre-ordered copy of Wrath of Ashardalon came in. I haven’t had an opportunity to play it, and don’t know when I will, but on seeing that the “CRDB“ is now defunct, I decided to channel my excitement into a form which others can see and benefit from. I spent a lot of the [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2011
Punished by Rewards
I’m reading the book Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn, at the suggestion of Jonathan Blow. It’s incredibly interesting, and I think should be required reading for most adults. It is interesting for game design, but also for managers, teachers, parents, and I would think most other people.
Hey, it’s Friday
I watched Timecop last night on Netflix Instant Watch. Wow was it horrible. Though I suppose it was probably a little bit better than The Art of War, since I watched the whole thing rather than stopping it and removing it from my instant queue five minutes in. Hey look at that, IMDb users agree [...]
Musings on Game Plots
Alan Tew made an interesting observation on his LittleBot Studios blog: that the plot of escaping enslavement lends itself especially well to the video game medium. This led me to wonder what other sorts of plots might also lend themselves well to the medium, and I decided to do my musing here. This will be [...]
Oh, and happy Valentine’s Day, if you like.
Christopher Tin has just become the first person to ever win a Grammy award for a song composed for a video game. That’s pretty cool. The song is awesome, and really the whole album is… I want to get it now. Watching the music video reminded me a little of Praan and the 2008 Where [...]
+1 Brandon Sanderson Fan
Just finished reading the Mistborn trilogy, and I quite enjoyed it. Sanderson is a very talented writer. I’m definitely going to read Warbreaker and the new standalone Mistborn novel (The Alloy of Law) which is coming out this year. I think I’ll probably even start his new 10-part series, The Stormlight Archive, once he’s gotten [...]
Pulled my nose out of the book just long enough to write this half-assed post.
I have been reading the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I’m about three fourths of the way through the second book now. I’m enjoying them.
The Crowd Goes Wild
Time passes. Wilkins catches the pass and heads for the goal. Anderson and Fleming close in from in front of him and to the right. He darts to the left, then passes it to Jacobson. Pass to Robinson. Back to Wilkins, then back to Robinson. Back to Time and score!
Taylor Swift – Love Story: Alternate Lyrics
Love Story by Taylor Swift is a song about romance which alludes to the story of Romeo and Juliet, but events for the characters in the song work out somewhat differently than they did for the star-crossed lovers. I wondered what it would be like if it was more true to the story as written [...]
