I can’t comment on Peter Sarrett’s blog (hello, 500 server error), so I’m posting my remarks on “Puzzle Hunt 123” here: Wei-Hwa said: “Except for the teams at the top, most teams don’t realize when they can be meta-event-ing to…
Category: games
OnLive: Behind the Scenes
My friend–let’s call him “Kojak”–shared some interesting details about his employer, OnLive, who made a big splash last week at GDC (read more about it: company web site, press conference video, Penny Arcade comic). Some highlights from his email to…
Putting the ON in Clarion
I just submitted my application for the 2009 Clarion workshop at UCSD, with a whole ten minutes to spare. (In case you’re curious, the two stories I submitted were expanded versions of the 512 Words or Fewer pieces “Prisoner” and…
GC Summit 2009 Debriefing
Thursday night’s gathering was a rousing success, thanks in large part to the Shinteki folks, who got us a meeting room and free parking at the San Francisco Zoo. See for yourself: http://picasaweb.google.com/sparckl/GCSummit2009 Thanks also to Larry Hosken, who (via…
Why I wasn’t writing last weekend
This game was called Ghost Patrol. The conceit was that we were hunting and exorcising ghosts. Slime was involved. There was an entry fee, but all the money is right up there on the screen, as they say. I saw…
NaNoWriMo Has Begun
That’s National Novel Writing Month to you. My current progress: D and I got a head start at a midnight write-in on Friday, and an after-hours library write-in on Saturday night. Then we totally slacked off today and played Rock…
Gamer Syndrome
This past Sunday, the Seattle Times ran a story titled, simply, “The Game.” It’s about those weekend-long puzzle hunts that I often discuss here; in particular, it’s about one which took place in Las Vegas in 2002 and resulted in…
Sitcom Room, etc.
Today, I registered for Ken Levine’s Sitcom Room, wherein I will spend 33 hours in a hotel with 19 other TV writer wannabes, working in a team of 5 to rewrite and improve a comedy scene. That happens one week…
JoCo@PAX08
Jonathan Coulton is a fine musician and showman… …a gentleman, who will share the stage with a lady… …and, sometimes, a bit of a dick. ~CKL