Finally watched "Indie Game: The Movie" with JoDee. Interesting to see some of my own design struggles in some very prominent and undeniably successful developers. Also the sheer grit and determination to see something through no matter the cost financially, physically, and emotionally.

Is it too late to ask Santa …

Yesterday I listened to more electronic music like the Syntension Alpha / Beta albums, along with other Synthematika artists. Today saw more post-rock bands like Black Market Serotonin, Carthasy, Amity in Fame's Dinner for One, and I:Scintilla's Optics album.Complete listing as always is available on my Last.fm page …

Most of the morning's listening was back to the Jameno streams. I'd really like to find some different CC-only electronic music streams for the daily-programming-grind, but unfortunately I've not been able to find anything as high quality as Jamendo, nor as consistently available as Jamendo. Perhaps this is an opportunity …

Name one component to a role playing game that you absolutely need in order to play. OK, chips and pop are important, but that's not what I had in mind. Paper, dice, books, pencils, miniatures; yes yes, but there's something else more crucial. What's that? Um, I'm not even sure …

The Deryni Adventure Game takes the mythical world of Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series of historical fantasy, and ports it as a setting for role playing in the Eleven Kingdoms, using the excellent Fudge role playing system. The Deryni novels center around a medieval society which parallels European medieval society, with …