http://www.lategaming.com staying up late, playing games Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:37:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Matt Borselli has a quick writeup of his experience with Crucible Design, and more specifically The 23rd Letter, on his blog, AssHat Paladins. I enjoyed chatting about it - getting involved in my own narcissism obviously - and it brought back a lot of memories. Part two will be out in ... http://www.lategaming.com/2010/03/11/asshat-paladins-blog/ This is 28 minutes of chuckles and amazing insight on how everything we touch will become a game. Eventually. Who is going to lead us? http://www.lategaming.com/2010/02/23/amazing-content-on-games-and-reality/ Not a post per se, but something to help me bookmark a link which may be interesting to others as well as me. Content management and delivery tools for indie ARG producers: Alternate reality games and other kinds of distributed story/play projects place heavy demands on their creators’ abilities to manage and ... http://www.lategaming.com/2010/02/10/arg/ I don't normally go for PC games but I'm enthused by Dogfighter by Dark Water Studios, a Derry-based outfit who plan to release their game in Spring 2010. I'd love an iPhone/iPad version of it. http://www.lategaming.com/2010/02/04/dark-water-studios-dogfighter-spring-2010/ Our first character is Constable Bob Hawkins: October 3rd 1889, Blackfriars. Tonight has been slow. Apart from cuffing the ear of some pickpockets, Blackfriars has never been so quiet. It's like the night is expecting something to happen. You roust a prostitute and her John out of an alleyway and then you ... http://www.lategaming.com/2010/01/27/dwaitas-episode-0/ Robotic Rampage Stopped By Raw Recruits by Rhonda McAvoy of The Boston Globe March 18th, 2002 The Prudential Center was subject to a brutal attack this morning at around 8am. Three robotic figures burst out of one of the iconic "Duck Tour" tour buses to go on a deadly rampage through downtown ... http://www.lategaming.com/2010/01/22/watchtower-new-england-episode-3/ The Doctor uses an "old" Type 40 TARDIS. IT travels in space and time. It's bigger on the inside than the outside. It has a broken Chameleon Circuit which means it's stuck in the form of a police box. Doctor Who, like Star Trek, has it's own sort of technobabble. From the ... http://www.lategaming.com/2010/01/16/tardis/ Where I embarrass myself with Garageband and a Dr Who MID file. Dr Who Remix http://www.lategaming.com/2009/12/23/too-much-time-too-little-talent/ I've been reading a lot of Doctor Who stuff recently since receiving the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space (DWAITAS) RPG. I haven't actually been reading the RPG though. I figure that the rules are secondary to the creation of compelling adventures. I finished Tom Baker's "Robot" and "The Ark ... http://www.lategaming.com/2009/12/21/dwaitas/ [caption id="attachment_620" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="The new Dr Who RPG from Cubicle 7"][/caption] It arrived. And I've been preparing. I'ved watched five episodes of Torchwood (the Children of Earth miniseries) as well as four episodes of Tom Baker's Doctor (Robot) and a few episodes of Tennant's Doctor (Silence in the Library, Stolen Earth). ... http://www.lategaming.com/2009/12/17/the-doctor-has-arrived/