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We discovered a new game at GDC that's been my addiction for the past few evenings. It's Niche, a genetic survival game that's sort of a cross between SimLife and Watership Down. You start with Adam and Eve, a pair of little foxlike creatures that don't have an official name yet, and you have to breed your people into a whole tribe while exploring ( Read more... )

I'm procrastinating by playing DrawceptionIt is a ridiculous cross between Pictionary and Telephone where someone makes a prompt, the next person does an awkward 10-minute sketch of it in a little app like Paint, the next person guesses what the sketch was, on and on for fifteen iterations until the end result in no way resembles the prompt. It is ( Read more... )

I got to try this game at GDC. Habitat: An Orbital Strategy GameAfter Earth fell to some kind of global catastrophe, humanity is struggling to survive on floating habitats built from space debris in orbit. It's a building game where you have to collect and cobble together space junk, attach engines, and attempt to supply your people with enough ( Read more... )

Last December, the self-published author M.C.A. Hogarth (haikujaguar) received a notice from Amazon that her e-book Spots the Space Marine was being taken down due to trademark infringement ( Read more... )

Still tired and short on words, so have another glaringly autistic de-stressing project. Actually I finished these about a year ago, but I don't think I ever took pics and posted them. Unlimited Adventures cicns in perler beads. These were some of my favourite characters.

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( The uncanny valley: good for more than just faces! (videos under cut) )

So much to write about. Pages and pages and pages of notes.

First things first, because everything else hinges on this.

Monetizing cristal.

Cristal being the same thing as in crystal kifu. After sitting through a presentation on Final Fantasy: Crystal Mythos solely because of the name, and getting blasted by its teeth-grinding sugar high artwork ( Read more... )