Yesterday I got to play Dungeons and Dragons with actual other people around an actual table with actual dice for the first time in… Eight? Nine years? (Wow, was it really that long ago? I guess so. Damn.) It was fun. It was as much fun as I remember, if not more. I didn’t have [...]
Conversation One, overheard on the bus: Girl One: So the second step is to pick some heroes for yourself, and they’re not supposed to be realistic heroes. They can be anyone you choose. Girl Two: Oh? Girl One: So I picked Frederick Douglass, because I really admire him, and the Powerpuff Girls, because they’re awesome. [...]
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL CONTAIN GIANT GIANT SPOILERS ABOUT PLOT POINTS IN THE FIRST BIOSHOCK GAME. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. I realize that at this point I am probably one of the few people in the world who still cares/cared about avoiding spoilers for Bioshock, but I feel the need to put that [...]
It’s Christmas. I can’t even remember how old I am,* or what I got for Christmas this year, but my brothers have unwrapped something that they’re extremely excited about. I can’t remember–I didn’t recognize what they’d unwrapped, but they were so excited I knew it had to be something amazing, so I was excited too. [...]
Holy crap! Okamiden! I am so freaking excited it is hard to type this! Since it’s practically impossible to chronicle my excitement in words, here is a comic I made to illustrate it! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!
Last Friday, May 7th, Chris and I got to participate in the Beta Test of something awesome. That something was W00tstock. W00tstock v2.0, if you want to be specific. As the show opened, Wil Wheaton informed us that the show was still in Beta, and that if we found any bugs we should log them [...]
As both a knitter and a gamer, I spend quite a bit of time doing both things and thinking about both things. They’re much more similar than they seem at first glance. Let me break it down: 1. Normal people think you’re crazy for doing either. With video games, people think you’re crazy for wasting [...]
The heat has been on in my apartment for the last two hours and it’s still only 51 degrees in the living room. This is ridiculous. I am typing from the futon, which is heated with an electric mattress pad, and I am wearing a camisole, a tank top, a long-sleeved shirt, a pair of [...]
Every once in a while, the gaming review community gets the idea that video games need to be innovative. If they’re not innovative, then they’re bad games that shouldn’t be made. Only innovative games should be creative! Games will get praised for their innovation! Games that are not innovative are horrible wastes of megabytes! Etc. [...]
On a recent comment, rhiandmoi suggested that I make a post on the life cycle of a game. That’s a great idea, but it would take way more than a single post to sum it up! I thought I would start at the logical place to do so: The beginning. Games start with a GDD, [...]