Today's the final day of Zarf's Kickstarter drive. It hit 300% funding weeks ago, and we're vying to get him over $30,000 (and nearly 400%!) before midnight.

I wrote more about this over on The Gameshelf. Summary: supporting this work isn't just a pledge to help improve the state of modern interactive fiction. It also helps prove that passionate ( ( Read more... )

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Why, yes, it is only ten minutes long. More details in the show notes.

Today's Gameshelf column: Similar Journeys in Very Different Games, on how a puzzle hunt I played over the weekend is like Shadow of the Colossus. I like it.

I have quietly modified my internal definition of The Gameshelf to be less the home base for my video series of the same name, and more the home of my weekly-ish column on games. I have ( Read more... )

I've been continuing to write columns every week for The Gameshelf. I still spend a solid work-day laboring at each one, but have yet to regret my time so spent.

Most recent work:

• My Vicarious GDC Takeaways

• St. Gulik Added You as a FriendThen PAX happened, and I didn't write anything the following week. Then I wrote only about PAX for a ( Read more... )

Kotaku, a very popular video game fansite, picked up my most recent Gameshelf column, reprinting it (and modifying the headline somewhat) with my permission. Though I put on airs of being a snootypants indie game critic, you know that this made my day ( Read more... )

• Final bizcard design. This is the actual image I sent to overnightprints.com yesterday; I expect to have a bucketful of cards by PAX day. Thanks be to various Arbitrarium denizens for helping me fine-tune it.

• I wrote another column on comics and video games. It's a bit wanky and therefore everyone seems to have ignored it, but I had fun with ( Read more... )

I'm two weeks in to a writing experiment, posting a long opinion piece about games every Monday to the Gameshelf. I'm not limiting myself to Mondays only, but the rule is that there has to be something there on Monday no matter what. The columns I've written so far are Farewell to Megaton and Shelf Space, intended to be my first couple of steps in ( Read more... )

I wrote a column about stuff I learned from playing Team Fortress 2, more introspection of my own identity as a gamer than anything objective about the game. In other words, typical overlong jmac blather on childish fripperies. I hope you enjoy it ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I created a new Google Group called "The Gameshelf Players", which I plan to use for announcements and discussion relevant to folks interested in appearing on future episodes of my show ( Read more... )

Howdy, Gameshelf Players and other friends ( Read more... )