That's right, the game I've been working on for the past month is finally done. I hope it's short yet sweet for everyone who plays it:

Area 50.5

Enjoy!

Maybe it's just me, but the Bookworld in the Thursday Next series seems to continue acquiring characteristics that make it resemble the Myst/Riven universe...
( slight spoilers )

It’ll be a while before I can post a lengthy synopsis/photo rampage, though ( Read more... )

That's the message that was on display on a local church marquee. I think my first thought in response to it was, "But...wasn't Douglas Adams an atheist?"

They're making a movie out of "The Mist"! [warning for the easily offended: naughty language and icky descriptions] Of course, I guess this means that very few of the horrors are going to be ( Read more... )

After three months, I seem to have more or less completed the main body of writing for the ubersecret project of some interest to King's Quest fans that will be unveiled exactly four weeks from now. Approximately 423 pages of 14-point font, single-spaced text of flaming death!! Hopefully my faithful betas will be able to withstand such a ( Read more... )

Something that the Mac enthusiasts don’t tell you is that if you love ancient Mac games and you want to reinstall them on your new computer and you have no way to transfer the files, you are pretty much screwed ( Read more... )

I am in love with this short story!

I was reading through Sheckley's The People Trap and starting to get a little depressed because of the content of the short stories I'd read so far (ruined world, this guy gets killed, another ruined world). I was starting to think that Sheckley's humorous period at this point in his books was over, then ( Read more... )

Ever read something or listen to something that makes you think of something totally unrelated to the context it is in, even if the author didn't intend that something to be interpreted that way?

I've had this happen a couple of times. When I first heard the X Minus One episode "The Lifeboat Mutiny", the computer controlling the lifeboat of the ( Read more... )

Okay...

( A person who supports adventure games... )

I got two see the family of white-tailed kites that lives in the park near us today. There are two adults and at least two juveniles. I've seen them twice before, but this time, I got to see one the kites giving the other food -- Kite 1 was perched in a tree, then Kite 2 flew in with something in its claws. Kite 1 takes off, meets Kite 2 in midair ( Read more... )