Imagine you are about to play a game of Monopoly. According to the rules, each player starts with $1500. One of the other players, however, insists that they are going to start with $2000. What is their justification for this extreme head start? Well of course, it’s a bonus they deserve because they won the last game of Monopoly they played. Read more…
Not two weeks ago I attended my fifth Otakon. I attended many events at that convention, one of which was The Old School Anime Panel. There were many problems with this panel, and there are many problems with panels at cons in general. That topic is covered in depth on my podcast, Dave and Joel’s podcast and possibly in the future on AWO. Regardless, during that panel a friend of mine decided he wanted to start trouble. He raised his hand, got up and stated that Sailor Moon is not old school. This of course, created quite a stir among the general fandom attending the panel. Read more…
Alright! I don’t know how old this is, but I found a cool online game today. It’s called Blogshares, it’s a fantasy stock market game. Except instead of using NYSE or NASDAQ, they use blogs and their relative popularity. Pretty cool. In order for me to play I have to claim my own blog. That means posting a bit of HTML on this site. Just ignore it.
I’ve been embroiled in this constantly recurring debate over whether or not PC gaming is dead or dying. This entry is not about that continuing discussion, but rather a related idea that came to me while in the shower today. No, I’m not lying. I actually thought of this in the shower. Read more…
I have but one bookcase in my room which I used to store my manga, comics and such. The bottom shelf has always stored my large collection of almost 10 years of GamePro magazines. Lately my comic and manga collection has grown larger, and I stopped subscribing to GamePro over a year ago. So I packed up the magazines, and I’m getting ready to sell the whole collection on ebay.
You may recall a previous blog post I made about games using AJAX. Web pages with the ability to read and write to databases via XML and update the display without reloading allow for the possibility of games that work in any web browser without plug-ins or large bandwidth consumption. But the games would still be limited to what you can draw using CSS and HTML. Thanks to the new canvas element in the newest versions of Firefox and Safari this is no longer a limitation.
There is this really old game called M.U.L.E. that was released for the Atari and Commodore 64. This game has a very long and interesting history that you can learn about on a myriad of websites. My roommate and I recently rediscovered this game because we got our NES emulating computer plugged into the television and working. I knew about M.U.L.E. for many years, but I never really got into it very much. It took me until just yesterday to realize that it is really just a very good German strategy board game.
Recent Comments