Got my schedule from Dragoncon today. In addition, I am planning to attend the Dcon parade - first time in years.

Title: Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana, and State Legislatures
Description: The times they are a-changin'. We discuss the legal and tax implications of marijuana legalization in an era of increasing tolerance.
Time: Sat 08:30 ( Read more... )

Figured it was about time for another post from our uberpowered Mutants and Masterminds' campaign. Since I last posted (http://andrewgreenberg.livejournal.com/42384.html), our team of godbeaters returned to Inglemia, only to discover that a noble houses' feud over who got to control ( Read more... )

I wrote an article a while ago about what high school students should know before going to study game design at college (http://gametheoryonline.com/2010/10/28/video-game-students-college-degre). Jeff Parrott rightly pointed out that it was more ( Read more... )

The next day of the forum began like the rest, albeit with a spirited breakfast discussion of ways to ensure our presentations would be understood. Some of the presenters had simplified their slides, hoping that the audience could read what the translator might miss. I planned on a different tactic ( Read more... )

The first thing I want to import from China is 50 cent Tsing Tao. A favorite beer of mine since youth, I love seeing it everywhere ... and cheap! What is the other childhood beer of mine I saw sitting next to the Tsing Tao’s, and also under a dollar? PBR Tallboys ( Read more... )

I’ve been on both sides of the licensor/licensee divide. I’ve worked with licenses that had a reputation of being troublesome (Star Trek and Warhammer), though my experiences with them were very positive. In both cases, the license holders had strong visions of how they wanted their creations presented, and as long as the licensee maintained that ( Read more... )

I’ve been listening to an interesting series of lectures on science fiction by Dr. Michael Drout. Found much to agree with and learn from in his lectures, but I found myself disagreeing with one assertion in the best possible way - the way that makes me want to write more ( Read more... )

I commented to an aspiring game designer yesterday that, "No game is ever perfect," in reference to him not wanting to post his projects until he had a few more years to work on them. I have never known a designer, myself included, who ever felt that nothing more could be done to improve a game (or version of a game) after it was launched. There is ( Read more... )

Was in Virginia this past week helping my mother get her house ready for the hurricane. It's the house she grew up in, a big farmhouse built in 1906, and has survived many hurricanes. However, it just had a major redo and this will be its first since that. Lots of work to get it ready, especially with at least a literal ton of construction debris ( Read more... )

So Haunted House Tycoon is entering the final stretch of development. We’ve been showing the game to people under controlled settings and are aiming for an on-line demo by the end of the month. We’ve been getting great responses to the game, and are getting jazzed about putting it in people’s hands soon ( Read more... )