UQM has defeated queue, who was unhappily surprised to run into its time limit. It's one that makes perfect sense in-game, but once you're there, you more or less lose all reason to keep playing. It's also yet another element of the game's old-skoolishness. Players of the time would would naturally expect that, at any moment, they might hit a wall and ( Read more... )

Been having a fairly productive last few days ( Read more... )

Entering: Harvard Square.

No smoking, please.

Next stop: Central Square.

Priority Override.

Must break target down to component materials.

Spent the whole freaking day playing The Ur-Quan Masters, the open-source modern-computer port of Star Control II, a classic and much-celebrated space adventure game from 1992. (Not a clone -- an actual port, based on the original code for the game's 3DO version. Pretty cool ( Read more... )