The Laundry is here
On Thursday I received ‘The Laundry‘ in the post. The announcement came back in March so I was really excited...
The Final Frontier. No, really.
Ian Sales writes on his blog: And sometimes those imaginations run a little too free. A lot of science fiction...
Setting Riff: Oa versus Krypton
A thousand years ago, on the planet Krypton, there was a technologically advanced, cruel and nihilistic race which carved a...
iPad at the gaming table
This picture is made of awesome. It’s from a thread on RPGnet titled: iPad owners – how much are you...
The theft of the Book of Raziel
I’ve stolen the main text here from page 54 of the Smallville RPG but remodeled it on Qabal: Isaac’s player,...
Cold-Blooded Killers
Lizaur on TheRPGSite commented: Well, the vast majority of RPG has leeengty chapters just about how to kill people, so...
OK, it’s no secret I’m just a big geek.
I got the Serenity book a few months ago from Sub City in Dublin and the Smallville book arrived today...
RIP Six Flags New Orleans 2000-2005
Six Flags New Orleans is an amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck...
Blast from the Past: Traveller.
A fabulous game resource. It’s nowhere near as lovely as the Near Star Map from 2300AD (partially pictured below) but...
Horror – Sids Story
I wanted to write a quick horror scenario which would fit in with pretty much any game and I figured...
Digital Games can be Social Experiences
Professor Mark Durkin from the University of Ulster suggested: “For customers, the constant and often simultaneous use of laptop, MP3...
Here’s forty shillings on the drum, For those that volunteers do come
I’ve been on a little bit of a Napoleonics obsession recently. Part of it starts from reading the Bernard Cornwell...
NINoWriMO – Northern Ireland Novel Writing Month
I’m taking part in a fiction-writing collective called “WriteWeekly” but this has some relevance as well: Blick Shared Studios, Malone...
Frontier fiction: The Emotion Elective
AMARA would always marvel at the human capacity for self-deception; the ability to believe something even though the facts were...
Frontier: Foreword, History of Mbaye Schools, page 23
[I am taking part in a weekly writing task with some friends. The first seed for this assignment was the...
SyncNI: Exclusive on Galactic Racer by WeeMan Studios
NI-based game development studio, Wee Man Studios just gave SyncNI an exclusive on Galactic Racer! Click through the graphic for...
Once, Twice, Three Times a Detective
Dolgion Chuluunbaatar of Gamasutra writes about non-linear adventure games: As I was on vacation, I picked up my sister’s copy...
Current Inspirations
Portal – for the non-violent nature of it and the neat teleportation physics puzzles. And removing half of the stupid...
Games in Education
I believe that my playing of games has contributed positively to my development as an individual. Traditionally advocacy for gaming...
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