Witty Ranter #3

Witty Ranter #3, a round-table style podcast where Adam of Troll on Fire brings together several people and sets them going, and which (unwisely) had me as a guest, is out. So here it is for your listening delight. In it, me, Karen from Journeys with Jaye and Leala from Epic Dolls discuss the role … Read more

EQ2: Tales of a Master Jeweler

The best thing about Dorah’s tradeskill epic, is that it was done, start to finish, in a day. She was already a level 80 jeweler, but didn’t have the faction to get the quest. Three easy quests later (kill a dozen cats, click on six weapon caches in the Swamp of No Hope, click on … Read more

Gamers just want to have “Phun”

I saw yesterday that a Swedish researcher at UmeĆ„ 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