I recently picked up a latex sword from a rather large online retailer. It showed up yesterday before Halloween. It wasn't part of any costume though (well, not in the traditional sense).
I previously had a cheap plastic sword that I've had since college. Unfortunately this year it broke. I …
read moreThis is a continuation of my Magical Moments in computing series. I promised this a few posts back, but life has a way of getting in the way. Anywho, on with the show.
I knew that folks created computer programs but in the early days of computing they treated their …
read moreI promised a follow-up post to my original thoughts on blending pen and paper role playing games with interactive storytelling, but I'd like to take an aside to talk about mechanics in tabletop games.
Mechanics in tabletop games are there to help facilitate a particular type of story. When we …
read moreI've been following the work of Chris Crawford ever since he graced the cover of Popular Computing as "Atari's Secret Weapon". I was an impressionable fifth grader at the time and dreamed of the day when I too would become Atari's Secret Weapon. Through the years I've been looking in …
read more