I have a lot of things to write about. Exciting game-related news, thoughtful pieces about literature and art, philosophical musings about life and love… but I’m going to talk about the weather. You see, the weather is grey. That by itself is bad enough. It’s dark and depressing and boring …
We’re going to Greece for two weeks tomorrow. My tooth has calmed down with the help of antibiotics, but it’ll have to be taken out as soon as we’re back. The two things that terrify me the most are flying and dentists. I started having nightmares about planes yesterday. My …
A random assortment of links and stuff: The Book of Living Magic is completely finished. Currently just waiting for some tester feedback and trying to decide how I will approach sponsorship. I finally sent Terry my complete outline for the Nexus City prequel. I’ve already got a ton of notes, …
Wikileaks has done it again – now they’re revealing hundreds of files from Guantanamo. The media, of course, will probably misrepresent these files, especially since they are written by the people working at Guantanamo and thus contain all sorts of highly suspect information. Don’t forget people were tortured to make …
Today Christians worldwide celebrate a pagan fertility feast that combines their Messiah with bunnies and eggs, which I’m not sure Jesus would have found particularly amusing. Nevertheless, I wish you a happy Zombie Jesus day. Oh, and he’s not coming back. Sorry. (Not that it matters. If he did, they’d …
In this age of identity politics, where our differences are constantly highlighted to make us forget our greater commonalities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to talk critically about anything without being assigned to some “dominant” cultural group; a problem which is in turn exploited by the people who play the …
Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time thinking about older games that I loved, games that have had a huge influence on me as a game designer. Here are three of them, though are there are many more. The influence of Metroid II on my work is easy …
Verena and I just voted in the local elections. It was an odd experience – the paper with all the names and parties was about the size of my table, for example. It was also somewhat depressing, for a variety of reasons. One was the choice of parties: who do …
It was half past four in the morning. I was exhausted, worried about the future, and probably not thinking too clearly. And then, while browsing a website that often inspires me with its message, I came across this work of art, this moment of divine revelation, this masterpiece: And thus …
