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Praise for ‘Walkies’
There is a kind of computer game where the player travels a world, first person, and takes in the sights. There’s a back story, often a mystery that needs exploring,…
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Clifford Darling
Working on Clifford Darling now. This was a compilation album called in by Ink records in 1985, which was to collect all the stuff made before Since The Accident. So…
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Kurt Vonnegut explained the death of education long ago
Back in 1952, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel called Player Piano. Back sometime in the 70’s I read a copy. Now I get to live it. If it weren’t for…
Posted inGame Design
HH Part 2
Miracles occur only at great distances. Go back to the start of time and a single dot expands to be the universe. Go to the extreme of scale and particles…
Posted inGame Design
HH Part 1
This is the back story to HH, written in episodes running from 24th Feb to 29th March 2015. It was part of creating a consistent world for a sequel called…
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World’s least interesting blog entry
Somebody tried to mail something to me that completely rooted the sevcom server in Texas. If you sent me a mail in the last day or so, you’ll need to…
Posted inRanting
Whatever happened to Something Awful?
If Something Awful was completely without merit, there would be no problem. Shit is shit and let’s run this shit into the ground as they say in one of the…
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My bullshit equipment list is better than AFX’s bullshit equipment list
Eclectic Integrator with Phlogiston Gauge.Opposable Mitts with Felt Innards.Mid Range Pneumatic Foklift (n.b. not Forklift).Hot Pockets, Meat Lovers, Frozen.Tyrants (x7)One small Bowl of Tepid Squid Bites in Springwater.12 meters of…
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Musicians lie about their inspiration
Musician interviews inevitably arrive at naming one’s inspiration. The formula involves picking your own genre, then rewinding to decide whoever was the coolest shit in that genre when you were…
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Slab Horror and the President of SONY
Given all that technical guff in the last post you would expect that I would be doing similar things for the re-pressing of City Slab Horror, also happening this year.…