Patrick Rothfuss has just begun his second annual Heifer International fundraiser, which now has a name: Worldbuilders. If you donate you can get lots of cool prizes, most of which are sci-fi/fantasy books.
Archive of posts filed under the books category.
Games are fun, but that’s not the point.
Most games are developed with the intent of inducing feelings of “fun” in players. In my opinion, which is at least partially influenced by my read of A Theory of Fun for Game Design, this approach is irresponsible at best. The theory presented by the book is that the feeling we call “having fun” is our brains giving [...]
Book Review: Soon I Will Be Invincible
I’ve just finished reading Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman. It was an enjoyable read, but it left me disappointed.
Amazon Kindle
On Monday I received my Kindle, after waiting three weeks. Yesterday I finished reading Small Favor on it, and I’m really liking it. Of course, I knew I would. And it seems they are caught up on the supply now; a coworker ordered one yesterday after I showed it to him, and his is being [...]
What? Someone’s being logical about this?
Two Harvard Psychologists are saying that boys who play no video games at all are more likely to get in trouble than boys who play some video games.
Wholly Crap
Been a while since I posted here, huh? Hmm. : /
Well, an update on what I’ve been doing:
I am starting work on a video game version of Stardust (you may recall that Stardust is the working title of my board game side project—or you may not), using XNA Game Studio 2.0, which I hope to [...]
If he had black hair, he would be known as “Kvothe the Raven”
But he has red. Anyway his story is awesome. I refer, of course, to The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which I knew months ago that I would enjoy and which I received for Christmas, and finished last night.
quickie
Saw Stardust (the movie) on Friday and it was awesome. Go see it.
Still making progress on Stardust (my board game project). Much left to do, but I’m enjoying it.
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 (Book 7, [...]
