Now that The Muppet Movie Game is postponed indefinitely, those of us interested in Game planning will have to go elsewhere to get our fix of behind-the-scenes discussion. This is the first in an ongoing, irregular series of articles I’m…
Category: games
A Modest Proposal
I’ve just submitted a talk proposal to Ignite Portland 7, with the completely misleading title “How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes.” If you’re a PDX local (perhaps even one of our recent Portland DASH participants?) and…
Portland DASH Recaplet
Thanks to all the teams who played in today’s puzzle hunt! For those who missed it, and other interested parties: We fielded seven teams, totaling about 30 people. All our teams blew through the puzzles much faster than we expected–we…
Puzzles in Portland
During our time in the bay area, DeeAnn and I ran several puzzle hunt events (“The Game”) with Team Snout, and now we’re starting a new tradition in Portland… We’re collaborating with Game Controls (GCs) in nine cities across the…
We’re going to Disneyland
It’s official: Team Snout has registered for the Shinteki Field Trip: Disneyland on October 17th. We were, serendipitously, the 17th team to sign up (current total: 24), and since this sounds like a self-guided puzzle hunt, there’s probably still plenty…
Jotting Notes on my ‘Clues’ talk from GC Summit 2007
(with apologies to Larry Hosken) Some of this information is out of date, but there’s still useful stuff in here. And no, I didn’t do this merely out of narcissism; I’m writing up a “clue design primer” for general reference…
You know you’re obsessed…
…with a video game when you start thinking about installing a special utility just so you can get hotkeys to make your gameplay more efficient. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ~CKL
Reasons to Buy a Blu-ray Player
The way I see it, there are only three right now: Pushing Daisies, Season 1 Pushing Daisies, Season 2 LittleBigPlanet (NSFW) Because, let’s face it, if you’re going to spend $400 on a DVD player, you might as well get…
The Stigma of Self-Publishing, Part 3: Eragon vs. Hogwarts
My favorite anecdote regarding Eragon comes from our friend Suzie, who saw a billboard for the movie adaptation and thought to herself: “Hey, they misspelled DRAGON.” I haven’t read Eragon, and I don’t intend to. The history of its publication…