Frontier: A Changed Man
Kibwe had returned home a changed man. Kibwe had always wanted to be a pilot. From an early age he made airfoils from balsa and drove his parents to distraction…[...]
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Great videos from the launch team here. Described as a Tower Offense game, it certainly adds a different flavour to the stock re-runs of tower defense games (like Plants vs…[...]
Resonance
On TV, on your phone and online through music and games Something is happening The way people create and engage in stories is changing Resonance is a grand narrative told…[...]
Running the Numbers…
Ian Robinson sent me this link. It's Joe Konrath talking about the numbers involved in publishing, especially eBook publishing. But now I'm convinced. Signing with a traditional publisher, even being…[...]
Awesome bollywood movie trailer is awesome
I'm not sure I ever need to watch another action movie again. That said - anyone interested in making a t23L movie?[...]
Christmas Happened. Woot.
Consisting of Houses of the Blooded, Collins Complete DIY Manual, We Are The People We've Been Waiting For, Simple Boat Maintenance, Hot War, Cold City, Nameless streets, QIN: The Warring…[...]
The Laundry is here
On Thursday I received 'The Laundry' in the post. The announcement came back in March so I was really excited to get the book in the post this week. I…[...]
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 is set in outer space, or on worlds which orbit…[...]
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 vast stellar empire, subjugating thousands of civilisations under their regime.…[...]
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 really using it for gaming purposes? Of course, this uber-geek…[...]
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, James, says, "I step into the room from where I…[...]
Cold-Blooded Killers
Lizaur on TheRPGSite commented: Well, the vast majority of RPG has leeengty chapters just about how to kill people, so what do you expect my players do? Being a bunch…[...]
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 from Amazon. Both use derivatives of the Cortex system from…[...]
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 in 2005. The park is located in Eastern New Orleans,…[...]
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 it's still amazing.[...]
Horror – Sids Story
I wanted to write a quick horror scenario which would fit in with pretty much any game and I figured that it couldn't just be a magical teleporting serial killer,…[...]
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 player, smart phone and TV, especially by our young people,…[...]
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 'Sharpe' novels and then following up by downloading the entire…[...]
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 Rd, Belfast 7-9pm, Thursday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November 2010…[...]
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 plentiful for the contrary, even though nothing but faith supported…[...]