I was catching up on This American Life today, and heard about the Brooklyn Free School. It sounds great. Having homeschooled (or possibly unschooled?) myself through high school, I like the idea of it. And then I’m confronted with taking attendance for my students, and it feels a little ridiculous.
So, I’ll be moving a lot of my games-related talking to games.transneptune.net, where John and Austin and occasionally Allie will be joining me in blogging about our game development thoughts and process. Follow if you’re interested, avoid if you’re not!
My birthday party was last night. Absolutely lovely. A good bunch of people from various different circles all intersecting and seeming to like each other and stick around for hours. Good food, good drink. Today, nothing to do but dishes. This is as it should be.
This is not a fully-formed thought yet, but here goes. I’ve been reading and playing and thinking about a lot of story games lately, of course. And in particular, one game: Burning Wheel. I played this game years ago (“classic”) and found it not quite to my liking; there were some good things about it, …
Well, we have a playtest version of Loom, the heroic fantasy RPG we’ve been working on, ready. If you’re interested, drop me a line. It’s rather in the vein of Star Wars or Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series, to my mind. Temptation, heroism, all that. Beyond that, back in Boulder, getting over a sore throat, and …
I’ve been home a few days now, and in NYC, and now there’s snow. Lovely. I’ve been working on one of the games; updates soon and possibly some further details. I’ve also been thinking about security and society. More on that soon.
This is the last week of classes. Mostly done my papers (just need to edit a bit), and then there are some presentations and grading to do. Also, I’ve made an unordered list of what I want to do with my life: to make RPGs to teach to administer a bunch of linux boxes that …
I recently, for no good reason and at no expense, won some money. This allowed me to spend tonight doing what I think is the highest calling in my life: treating friends to a good dinner. Good friends, good food, good conversation. We went to Himalayas, the best restaurant in Boulder in my estimation. We …
Language Log informs me that today is International Talk Like a Quaker Day, and so I think I’ll take the opportunity to think about plain speech, and what it means to me. I don’t think that thee-ing (not, as Language Log discusses, thou-ing) is really appropriate in the modern age. I’m generally against orthopraxy, and …
Note to self: game design is great for many reasons. One reason is that you get to make a game, and then do science to it. We’ve identified a number of possible problems with the current game, and now we’re going to try to isolate them. Control! For variables! We played a playtest session of …