John Wayne’s Teeth

Smoke Signals isn’t my favourite movie of all time, but this song is just absolutely hilarious. (The video is not from the movie. I wish I could find the whole scene from the movie on YouTube, but the only video I can find is too short.)

Transformers

We saw Transformers yesterday. Verena: So, the real test: is this worse than Immortel? Jonas: They’re bad in different ways. If these two movies were sweets… Verena: What? Jonas: Sweets. If these two movies were candy. Verena: Oh. Jonas: If it was candy, then Immortel would be poisonous. Transformers would …

Last Rose / Infinite Ocean mirrors

Since apparently some people were having the occasional bit of trouble downloading from the JustAdventure server, I uploaded copies of Last Rose in a Desert Garden and The Infinite Ocean to this site. So, if you want to see some of my older work, it should now be easier.

Awesome.

There’s a review of Desert Bridge up at Jay is Games which is so awesome that words simply fail me. Well, actually they don’t. Awesome is a pretty good word. And awesome it is. That being said, House at Desert Bridge is a wonderful work to behold. It’s a story …

Hosting

I could really use some input here: what would be some possibilities for hosting Desert Bridge? I could really use a couple of mirrors, to ease this site’s burden. Would really appreciate some suggestions.

Bars of Black and White

Gregory Weir recently released a new Flash-based adventure game called Bars of Black and White. And here are some thoughts: The game’s basic mechanic of using a scanner to read barcodes (found in all kinds of places and forms) is simple and original, and works excellently with the game’s Orwellian …

The Incredible Arghness

Recently another abyss of human behaviour has opened up in front of us, and it’s not pleasant to look at. I have only vaguely hinted at some problems we had about a year ago with certain people (which included the joyous event of someone putting a rootkit on my old …

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…

From: Obama’s program of war Gates told the senators: “There is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is Afghanistan. As you know, the United States has focused more on Central Asia in recent months. President Obama has made it clear that the Afghanistan theatre should be our …

More choices

I just noticed a user review of Desert Bridge in TIGdb, and felt I needed to remark on a couple of points it makes. I hope my posts about reviews don’t feel like I’m constantly being defensive; I’m mainly writing this to illuminate game design choices I made, in the …

More editing

Yesterday we spent about an hour and a half editing one paragraph. One. Paragraph. Still, it’s absolutely worth it, and it’s bound to get quicker as we get to the parts with less exposition and more action. And I have to say, editing is a fascinating process. You can really …