Obviously I haven’t been very diligent about sketching every day. Life is busy, isn’t it? But now I really have no excuse – I got a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch for Christmas so it’s near-effortless to doodle on my computer now. I’ll be trying to make these more regular; if I’m honest, I probably…
Read moreJudging for the 2009 Interactive Fiction Competition is underway. There are twenty-four entries this year, and twelve prizes. I think I’ll have to submit something next year. Anyway, everyone’s a critic, and I’m judging games. You can too – anyone who plays at least five of the games can vote. My analysis is not deep…
Read moreA friend of mine invited me to join his group on Dungeons & Dragons Online, so the other night I logged on and gave it a shot. My MMO background is a two-week trial of Star Wars Galaxies, and a brief stint with Puzzle Pirates. The former was a terrible bore. I really did give…
Read moreI just finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. After watching the sixth film I was left with a nagging feeling that some crucial plot points had been left out, so I had to go back and check. As with many good books, once I started I…
Read morePsychologist Philip Zimbardo (of the ’71 Stanford Prison Experiment) has some pretty crazy ideas, but I think he’s on to something with his talk at TED 2009 (6:34). He suggests that the way we cope with temptation (and eventually our overall success in life) is tightly linked to a personal trait that we don’t give…
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