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Gary Gygax, R.I.P.

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Via Zen of Design, the sad news that Gary Gygax, the father of modern roleplaying games and the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away. He gathered together the ideas in a dozen or more fantasy books and showed us all how we could live our own adventures in those worlds. The RPG and … Read more

Rudy Rucker’s “Postsingular”

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What has Portal got to do with Postsingular, anyway? I didn’t do a whole lot of gaming this weekend. I spent most of it curled up with my Sony Reader, devouring Rudy Rucker’s book “Postsingular“, which he is offering for free download on his website in PDF and Reader-friendly HTML. I love HTML books because … Read more

Blogroll

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I deleted a couple of inactive or entirely dead sites from my blog roll, and added several blogs I have in my feed but didn’t have here. If I forgot yours, let me know 😛 Typically I don’t link to gamer blogs that don’t have blog rolls, because I feel that puts a dead end … Read more

Gamers just want to have “Phun”

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I saw yesterday that a Swedish researcher at UmeÃ¥ University VRlab had released the latest version of “Phun”. This is software that takes anything you can draw… and animates it with real world physics. This kind of reminds me of Crayon Physics, which does the physics, but makes it into a puzzle game. Phun gives … Read more

Sympathy for the Daniel

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There’s a boy out there, crying in shame because he cannot understand blogs. He needs all our help. His name is Daniel. And he cannot understand blogs. I couldn’t understand some parts of this article rana » EQ2: Nice while it lasted — Clan of Shadows declines the haffer, but I guess I just need … Read more