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Beta test of posting in the new format? Well, also a game I played!  By the way if you too want to experience the IF Comp games the place to download them is this page right here, or, you can play on-line. That’s what I did for this one, having been on my lunch break a…

Wow! That was amazing! See that thing I just posted below, about gleaming or gleaning something or other, and how I wanted to use a spoiler tag on it, even though there are really no spoilers?  It forced me to republish, reformat, and redo my entire blog!  Something about Blogger moving on without me to…

This is my first post reviewing Interactive Fiction competition submissions. If you have no interest in IF Comp stuff, you can skip over, since I’m going to also use jump-cuts to serve as spoiler space. Reviews of IF Comp games will generally have spoilers, so be advised before clicking on the jump. First Review is…

This post is a general state of intent – since I’ve been following the Interactive Fiction Competition for a few years now, I’ve decided to go ahead and write reviews for this year’s entries. I enjoy IF and someday I’d like to learn to write it myself… that is, as soon as I have a…

I recently returned from the Penny Arcade Expo! This is not an extended report, but I can link you instead to some photographs – here – PAX on my Flickr. I’m particularly fond of the Bioshock booth photo, and I have several more I need to upload. One anecdote relates to the photo that you…

Eyes focused, gun in hand, I carefully, strategically approach… the bus stop. No one there. I’m in luck! Had any other humans been present at the location of the bus, I would have been forced to slaughter them. The bus itself is driven by no one. The only purpose of a car in Africa is…

I’ve decided to edit the title of this blog to give it slightly better focus. I think it suits the name of my parent web site fairly well. I notice that I tend to discuss games that have been “out” for a while rather than the latest, greatest thing. This is for a couple reasons…

Everything I’d heard so far about Fable II talked about the townspeople, the shallow interactions, the unfair bad guy, and the dog. There’s one thing in the game that nobody talked about, which surprised me a little, and that is the fat woman. I don’t use “fat” chick in a derogatory manner, but as a…

Hi internet – I moved to a new apartment this week and we just now got internet access again. I’m using this week to catch back up with all my various virtual environments and projects. Lately playing: Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, which I am probably going to totally finish this week. I broke…

Just an update to currently playing from my gamer blog – I’m still working on FF4, but off and on I’m playing Mystery Dungeon Shiren, a roguelike game that seems to be more popular in Japan. I’m actually not all that good at rougelikes, but I like them anyway because they’re so challenging. Else-blog I…