January 25, 2012 – 10:02 am
My daughter (aka Goddessdaughter) is lacking in certain important life skills. She doesn’t know that you jump on Koopa Troopers so they won’t be able to attack you in Paper Mario. (And never mind that that lowers their defense so that your other attacks work better.) She skips past dialog faster than any regular [...]
December 29, 2011 – 2:04 pm
Well, it’s time to do some online gaming. I knew G+ would be good for this when I first saw Hangouts, but they made them better, and I played in one of Corvus’ Bhaloidam demos (which funded, yay!). I was busy doing two of the free Stanford classes, as well as running a bi-weekly [...]
October 24, 2011 – 9:28 am
I don’t completely remember my first gaming experience. I know it was one of the few at my friend Blair’s house, before his father — a Southern Baptist minister — decided what we were doing was demonic (So we switched to Traveller when we were at Blair’s). I do remember that my red-box human cleric [...]
September 16, 2011 – 8:58 am
If there had never been another Elder Scrolls game, Arena would have been forgotten, or fondly remembered by a few gamers but largely ignored today. Perhaps there would have been a bad third-person console game made from the license a few years ago, and then nothing else. Instead the parts of Arena that are interesting [...]
August 14, 2011 – 11:55 am
For a moment, something breaks me out of what I’m doing, and I realize that I’m leaning forward, chewing on my upper lip. My right hand is glued to my mouse and my left on the ever-popular WASD keys, which I spent half an hour mapping. On the screen is a horribly pixellated dungeon. My [...]
A few months ago, I started a campaign with my Shattered Earth setting. It was the product of some soul-searching about what makes a game fun for me as a GM, and what makes a game fun for the particular players that I have. As such, the setting is quite different than anything I’ve done [...]
Avencast is an action RPG by ClockStone Software, an Austrian game development company. I’d never heard of it, until I saw it on Steam, and there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it either. I’ve found that a lot of Action RPGs, like this one, don’t make a big splash within my user community. [...]
I blame Steam. Or maybe GoG.com Either way, it’s useful to have someone to blame. I went a long time with a substandard PC, and played a lot of PS2 and Xbox games. I joined GameFly and got games that way and other ways. I had been a sort-of PC gamer, and I became a [...]
There are a lot of people who really want to be published authors. They’ll do just about anything to be one, and that opens them up to scam artists and other people who desire to take advantage of them. There are people who pose as literary agents, taking fees from authors to represent them, when [...]
February 24, 2011 – 11:00 am
As I said yesterday, I abandoned doing the big rift events, and focused on leveling my character. I killed 10 of those and 5 of that, and used this thing on that thing and fought the monster that popped out. I died a couple of times, and leveled three or four times. If you’ve ever [...]