It was great to see people and to have the event turn out really well. I’m feeling exhausted, but also all my creative batteries are totally recharged. I’ve written a bunch of gamestuff, and feel jazzed to do some codestuff later. It’s nice.
ETA: Now I have a Shock hack, and spacerpunk oracle, and a thin [...]
When there’s discussion of realistic (or rather, cinematically gritty) gunfights, I just cannot help but drift the conversation into John Woo territory.
I just really can’t help myself.
I should see more actual John Woo, rather than just know him by homage.
If you want gun-fu aesthetics in a gun fight, maybe you should just really be using [...]
I was hanging out with a cute girl the other day, and of course my thoughts turned to the Smiths and similar bands.
The Smiths – There is a Light
The Smiths – This Charming Man
The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
(and you could certainly build an alternate playlist, centered around modern emo)
Just work with me here:
I’m imagining [...]
An article discussing a certain software methodology: “Agile Is a Culture Not a Process”. Don’t worry about the “agile” part, if you’re not into the software biz, but here’s an interesting assertion:
Culture is process. Identify your culture and promote that.
Or:
Culture doesn’t dictate a precise process; cultural values supported by teaching structures embedded in cultures and [...]
The Faint are great.
Here’s the video for “The Geeks Were Right”. Be careful, it’s a little painful to watch given the seizure-inducing graphics (though I dig the music still).
The vibe of the song fits with the post-humanism/existentialism of the Matrix, though the graphics are more like a bad trip down the Metaverse of Neuromancer. Maybe [...]
So yes, I will actually play the Matrix game some time, cobbling together the hacks. I think I have enough for a complete-enough freeform game. Spring might be a good time for it: rainy evenings are kind of vital for the environment. (Of course, spring lasts all of four hours in New England so we’d [...]
Vincent Baker, circa 2004, after an indie game design panel at Vericon:
I think that maybe my personal message of hope (“even without distribution, you too can sell literally several copies of your game!”) wasn’t quite what they were looking for.
(Emphasis mine, since part makes me lol a bit.) It was a different time.
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