Game Report: Episode
Episode is another choose-your-own-adventure game app, kinda in the spirit of Choice of Games and Heart's Choice. But it doesn't restrict itself to text to tell stories; instead it uses a combinatio...
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Game Report: Choice of Games, Heart's Choice Games
Special note to my parents: Though this blog post is about video games, you might be interested. Specifically, Choice of Games has a couple of games ("Tally Ho", "Jolly Good") that are kinda like rea...
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Book Report: 50 Years of Text Games
It's a history of text-centric computer games structured as 50 essays about 50 games, choosing one game published each year 1971-2020. It's pretty interesting. It took me a long time to get through ...
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Leviathan by Jason Shiga
I enjoyed the puzzle book Leviathan by Jason Shiga. It's a sort of choose-your-own-adventure comic book. (Shiga's made other such CYOA comics before, you might remember Meanwhile… from some years bac...
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I started playing the game Fallen London. If you also play, my character's name is lahosken if you'd like to correspond or somesuch. (You might think it strange that I just now started playing a 10-...
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I enjoyed playing the game Neo Cab. It's a story game full of conversation trees. You play a rideshare driver in a cyberpunk future. There are several passengers to ferry, but not too many. Thus, yo...
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A while back, you'll recall I made a phone game that involved walking around and "checking in" to various landmark-y locations. The game got its information about local landmarks from Foursquare, tha...
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Book Report: The Next Perfect Trade
It's a book on investment strategy. Since I'm not a full-time investor, a lot of this was lost on me. I had to look up a lot of jargon. E.g. "pyramiding" an investment. That's when you take the profi...
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Game: Troubador Tour Board
I made a phone game: Troubador Tour Board. You play it by walking around with your phone, occasionally pressing a button. Nowadays, that's not so unusual for a game. This game's unusual in that you d...
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Swarm Leaderboard Question
If you don't use the Swarm app, you can stop reading now. I use Swarm, but I'm hazy on the rules. For example… So far this week, I've earned nine Swarm coins by checking in at places. (well, o...
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I played through Firewatch a second time. The first time through, I'd played in a very focused manner. Given a mission, I carried out that mission with no side-tracking. But that was kind of a shame,...
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I played the computer game Firewatch and it was very pretty indeed. ...
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I played the computer game Hack 'n' Slash and it was pretty fun. It's that game where you get to change the game's program as you play through it. (I guess it's also a platform by which you can creat...
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