crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Another bit of lyric from No One In The World this morning.

Good Morning, or for those of you who have been reporting in faithfully, long time no post.

I don’t have a lot to say today. I just woke up, and I feel pretty wrung out. I’ve been wrestling with a chapter that doesn’t want to be. I’ve been having ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
After days of running errands and taking care of housekeeping issues, I’m back to playing URU: The Complete Chronicles, in order to finish my review submission for AdventureGamers.com. I’ve been up for hours hopping from Age to Age to see if I missed anything in particular, though I haven’t solved a ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
So I’m sitting at the library with Dawn, typing away on the laptop, but I haven’t decided what I can possibly work on, so I’m writing this blog just to get my fingers working. Hopefully you’ll forgive me for having a head full of nothing to talk about. We’ll see if my brain turns up something newsworthy ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
I have been receiving a lot of traffic lately for my Redefining Interactivity series (still not finished; still going to finish it), which is encouraging, as I plan on doing a lot of editing and rewriting of the article series and expanding it into an ebook, which I will release for a measly 99 cents, ( Read more... )

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Okay, so I’m one gig down, more or less, though I have to wait to hear if the work I did was accepted based on the price they offered me. I won’t comment about the money offered here, as I don’t want to seem churlish.

I have an RFP to finalize today, based on how much the work seems worth to me, but after ( Read more... )

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That’s not a song lyric. That’s an actual fact. I’m about to attempt to get some work done while a construction crew continues to excavate the parking lot just outside my living room window. It’s quite a sight. Check this out:

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GIMME THAT GUITAR
So I’ve been playing guitar, learning some cover tunes for no obvious reason other than that I need the practice and I just want to have a few tunes under my belt in case someone actually asks me to play something. Interestingly, I’m not rehearsing much of my own material. this isn’t ( Read more... )

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Okay, so, I’m over it. The songs are still ringing in my head, and I’m trying to think of ways I can salvage my work without the chord progressions they’re tethered to, but there’s a lot of work involved, and I haven’t got the necessary alternate progressions in my head yet, so I’m not going to worry ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Back in 2011, Richard Moss wrote a lengthy essay on the history of Adventure Games, or as he calls them, Graphical Adventures, for the Ars Technica website. I don’t follow the website, so I hadn’t read the article back when it was fresh, so commenting about it now on their website seems a little redundant ( Read more... )

I’ve been waiting for a topic to hit me today, and one finally did: critical backlash. I recognize that it is both inevitable and yet pervasive throughout the creative/design/engineering/software development worlds. I could probably talk endlessly about all of these, but I think I’ll stick to the area that got me thinking about it today: video ( Read more... )