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Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019

Apr 12, 2019 5 min read 2019 Blogging Challenge poetry books Carolyn Forché epic poetry ecocriticism feminism Québec transgender sophie labelle Games game design Comments

Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.

Dungeon Mastering For The First Time

Feb 16, 2019 5 min read dungeons and dragons table-top rpgs Games game design Star Wars fanfiction Mass Effect world-building setting Comments

I've started Game Mastering a Star Wars table-top RPG set in the Old Republic/pre-Mandalorian Wars era, and it's one of my favourite things right now.

Interview with Ida Toft: Materialisms and Designing Games For Plants

Jun 22, 2016 10 min read philosophy ecocriticism game design nonhuman altgames ecosystem kinship ecology interviews Comments

I approached Ida Toft a few weeks ago with the idea of doing an interview on their art and research practice. I met Ida Toft at Concordia University, where I'm currently finishing an

Building an inventory in Twine 2 with the built-in Harlowe macros

Jan 28, 2016 11 min read Games game design Twine Interactive Fiction coding notes Comments

If you're looking for an inventory system in Twine 2's default Harlowe Story Format, I have here a fairly simple system which I wrote for my incomplete Myst Jam twine game.

Today I livetweeted a talk by Pippin Barr

Dec 3, 2015 10 min read philosophy Games game design altgames livetweeting colloquiums, seminars and conferences Comments

Storified for convenience. I think. Because there are many tweets, click the big Read Next Page button when you reach the end. Update May 2018: Storify shut down. I exported the tweets, but