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[PUBLIC] The Economics of LARP (or, Are We Willing To Pay What LARP costs?)
This morning I am preparing to go to To Be Continued..., a theatre-style LARP campaign I participate in. Recently, one of the GMs (staystrong62805) has been commenting on social media and in conversation about the sheer amount of effort preparing each session is. There are 45 player characters, each of whom need around 1,250-2,500 words of character sheet each ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] Creative Project 2013
As always after JoCo Cruise Crazy, I am inspired to do something major and creative. A review of my personal projects spreadsheet shows I have enough personal projects that I need a spreadsheet to track them, and my follow-through rate is... lacking. So once more, I'm going to try crowdsourcing my priorities, because that worked quite well last ( Read more... ) -
New Machine!
I just confirmed the order for RUBY's replacement. The new machine (as yet unnamed) will finally displace EMERALD as the most powerful laptop, and in fact most powerful machine period, that I've ever owned. The core is an Intel i7-3632QM processor, most notable in that it will finally give me the hardware virtualization support I've been dying ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] New Lexicon
A number of circumstances have come together to inspire me to once again run a Lexicon game. For those unfamiliar, Lexicon is a wiki-based creative writing game in which the various players play the role of scholars writing a series of papers, or an encyclopedia, on a specific text, topic, or theme set out at the beginning of the game. The exact ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] The Business of War
I've been working on a new boardgame concept, but while I was working on it, I realized that it might build out into a weekend-long LARP pretty easily (for very large values of "easily".) Stealing a few ideas from Labor Wars, Across a Sea of Stars, and their ilk, I think I could probably write it in 60-90 days. My question is, is there interest ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] Done With That
Today the last regular post to Ten Years on Terra went up, the weekdaily blog I've been keeping of the A Time of War (MechWarrior) tabletop I've been running for the last year. Writing that has been a major contributing factor to the lack of posts on this LJ -- most of my content creation effort has been going there, trying very hard to keep up ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] 7-Topic Meme
In an effort to get more content here, I asked darkoni42 to provide me with seven topics to talk about. I believe the rules of this meme obligate me to pay these topics forward on request, but I expect everyone who reads this and is likely to participate has already gotten a goodly set of topics for themselves.
So, without further ado, ( I'll strain to remember how to use an lj-cut ) -
[PUBLIC] Be Advised Intercon Tower, We Are Coming In Hot
Oh, hello, LiveJournal. Haven't talked to you in a while ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] AIsteroids
This got generated as something of a byproduct of my research into a number of different things, but I thought I'd share it. I built a simple Asteroids network game. The architecture is such that the server calculates the entire game, and sends each client a report on what they can see. The client then sends back a very specific data structure ( Read more... ) -
[PUBLIC] Into Cold Storage
Because of a few changes around here, the amount of shelving I have has dropped. As a result, I had to find about five feet of books to take off the shelves and move into storage. I thought I'd share the list of books that I decided I probably wasn't going to reference in the next year or so.
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