Board game idea: Insider Trading
When I was younger, I enjoyed an afternoon playing the board game “Stock Ticker”. It was a new concept to me (no board to travel around), it dealt with money (and getting rich), and I was playing it with some really...
Spreadsheets: A game designer’s best friend
Seriously, if you haven’t fallen in love with spreadsheets yet, you’re doin’ it wrong. I’m currently in the middle of figuring out a multiple-week game loop with really tight targets. How the heck would...
Female game developers
I follow a bunch of female game developers on Twitter. Now, I also follow a bunch of male game developers on Twitter, too. In fact, it’s fairer to say that I just follow a bunch of game developers on Twitter. But...
The “Decline of WoW”
First, go read this. Now, since none of you did, here’s the tl;dr version – Warcraft is turning into an online game, not an online world, because that’s where the huge playerbase and money is. I’m actually...
Social Game Review – The Oregon Trail
A note about format The weekly thing isn’t really working for me, so these updates – like everything else on my blog – will be sporadic. The problem with trying to do one game a week is that some games just...
Bullshit News Writing
I am feeling completely uncharitable this evening, so it is time to criticize something that has always upset me. Bullshit, dancing-around-the-issue news writing. Witness, for example, the following article: Elderly driver dies...
Use email addresses for authentication
When I log in to the Penny Arcade forums or Metafilter, I log in as “Imperfect”. Other places on the internet require me to log in as “Imperfex”, since “Imperfect” was taken before I got there....