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Guitar solos
Guitar solo faces make a lot more sense when the guitars are replaced with giant slugs.
Strangely true.
I can't bring myself to put this into my "interesting links" feed, but it's been amusing me every time I tab by it for the last two days.
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Woohoo! Spirit Island!
About 3.5 years ago, I started work on a game called Spirit Island. Playtesters loved it all out of proportion to how clunky it was (being a very early prototype), so I had a pretty good idea this would be something to pursue.
Of course, about 3 years ago, I became a dad. So board game development slowed way down.
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Link Roundups: switching to syndication
I'm changing how I share links - instead of making topic-grouped posts, I'm using Pinboard and tagging links "interesting" that I would have saved for a Link Roundup. There are two ways to read them:
1. To read here on LJ, add mindways-links to your reading list. (Thanks jennet!)
2. To read in the RSS reader of your choice, go to my "tagged: interesting" pageI ( Read more... ) -
Link roundup and musings, protest edition
I've been following as I can the rising anger and protests over Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others. A few tabs that have stayed open for me to read/re-read:
The narrative after a shooting.
The St. Louis Police Officers Association does not represent all St. Louis police officersI think I linked to this in a past post, but JIC not ( Read more... ) -
Games for kids
I just assembled this for a friend, looked at it, and thought, there are probably other parents who could use this.
So, you're looking for some boardgames for your 2.5-4 year olds? Chutes & Ladders is not your only option!
GENERALLY: boardgamegeek.com has a sub-domain specifically for children's games, meaning you can browse them separately. ( Read more... ) -
Any math-y folks got an idea on this?
I'm looking to make a randomizer deck of 24 cards(*) which provides me an as-fair-as-possible random choice between a set of items ( Read more... ) -
"In the Red corner... Gol-goroth!"
I know enough mythos fans - and luchador fans - that I really ought to post a link to Los Cthuluchadores, an Elder Wrestling boardgame designed by a couple of folks I know. (I've not tried it, so I've no idea how it plays ( Read more... ) -
Link roundup, Robot Hugs edition
* Healthy Relationships - not one-size-fits-all.
* Best Night Ever - gee, can't imagine why this speaks to me. :P
* I Am Not Your Teachable Moment - avoid Othering, but also avoid Pestering.
* Body Policing Police
* Science! The Movie!
* Solstice - I'm more cold-sensitive than dark-sensitive, so this one speaks to me.
* But Men! - awesome ( Read more... ) -
Obduction... and Sentris
The Obduction kickstarter is in its final days, just shy of goal, and not far off from Oculus Rift support. Woo!
But the one that has me going "huh!" is Sentris, a hybrid puzzle game / musical creation tool1. The prototype looks like a really neat blend of the two, with each supporting the other ( Read more... ) -
3 Kickstarters makes a post?
1. I'm a big fan of public-domain art1. And there's a fair body of music in the public domain that has no freely available recordings of that music. The Musopen project is working on changing that; their current project is all of Chopin's works - plus some original compositions2, if they hit a stretch goal they're less than $2K from ( Read more... )