Hi all. Quick update, since I realized I haven't mentioned this and it's kind of cool ( Read more... )

I am slowly clawing my way out of internet desynch, having foolishly made an initial attempt right before the holidays commenced their usual brain-eating. 2147 mails in my inbox, but the good news is only 384 of them are unread!

jsridler has fallen full throttle into the livejournal thing, as I thought he would long ago, and so also made his one request ( Read more... )

Reason #1 to hate Air Canada: They have an infuriating tendency to change flights on you without notice, or with so little notice as to make no difference. Thought you were flying at 10:30am? Ha-HA! Try 7:30, beyotch ( Read more... )

Checking in briefly from my sister's rather fantastic cabin south of Denver. Photos from the trip will be up on a Flickr at some point.

Very much ahead of schedule, Booksurge put Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds out on Amazon -- we finalized the book a week ago, but had thought it would take at least two to three weeks to appear on Amazon. ( Read more... )

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In 2007 I attended World Horror Con with thehollowbox, and for all of the sessions we made it to, I kept pretty extensive notes. I'd gone with the intention of doing a bit of an experiment -- a news-style writeup of the sessions, similar to conference writeups I've done for Gamasutra. There was nothing like this available for spec fic conventions, as far as I ( Read more... )

Since it's official, just posting a note here that I'll be teaching a game workshop at this year's Context, a very cool convention in Columbus, OH.

Via the workshop website:

Erin Hoffman: Interactive Narrative and Game Design(Sunday, September 28th, 11am-2pm ( Read more... )

I am back from Montreal and about as flattened as I've been in awhile. A very uniquely terrific conference, though, and one I would make a repeat visit if I thought I'd still be in the northeast next year. But I suppose if Tom Buscaglia can fly out from Seattle for it I have little excuse. We shall see. Considering the short amount of time I spent ( Read more... )

Back from Context, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Con report comes later, since I'm still behind on the updateage. But I managed to hijack a panel into talking about virtual worlds, where the new gig and the idea behind it (also more later) gained a lot of enthusiastic traction, which was very cool. Didn't catch up with people as much as I would ( Read more... )

I am at Context. Drive took three hours longer than expected due to traffic. More on Context itself later, maybe. Very fried from the drive and I seem to have skipped dinner.

But I'm posting now because this is the coolest thing I've seen in a good long while. Seriously, holy shit, I lack the words for how awesome this is.