I think I’ve given myself a personal challenge: write 14 games in 2014. It’s part of my unofficial “game design apprenticeship” in which I try to become a great game designer through hard work, study, creativity, and maybe a bit of luck. I posted about my first two last week, d3 GUM and Night of […]
Two Free Microgames
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about games, and reading games, and wanting to design games. A couple of years ago, Wil Wheaton issued a challenge to “just make stuff.” It was limited in scope– for one day, just make something, and then release it for others to enjoy. I make stuff all […]
A Year-Long Project is Complete!
On January 6, 2013, I cast on the edge of a “weather scarf.” This is a concept-knitting project in which you really don’t know how it’ll look until it’s done. The pattern is called the “My Year in Temperatures” scarf, by Kristen Cooper. The pattern is basic: select in advance a different color yarn for […]
Hair Color and Cakes, Oh My!
Well, I did it! It took 2 days and a lot of swearing at a bottle of bleach, but I wrangled my hair from “long and brown” into “red, blonde, and blue!” The CEO of our company even donated to keep it red, white, and blue for the following week. So if you want to […]
The zombies have bitten me again
Remember the NaNoWriMo novel I was working on…. um…. last year, I think it was? With the couple who elope to Las Vegas just as zombies rise up, and it’s a mash of “Honeymoon in Vegas” and “Night of the Living Dead?” Like all of my novels, I knew I could write it when the […]