Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by David Porath I fell in love with this book immediately, which has never happened to me before. I am not an early adopter, and it’s the onus of every book to entice me. Of course, by the time I know that, I’m usually victim to time sink fallacy. But look at this cover. It looks like all the books in the old Disney movies. You know, like in Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty where a live-action book opens at the beginning and closes at “the end”. Now I have a book like that. I can look like I’m reading an…
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Late to the Game: Limbo (or: What the Hell Did I Just Play?)
After I finished Bastion for the second time, I bought Limbo because it’s one of those games everyone’s still talking about and it’s cheap. I really didn’t know what it was about, except that it was Indie and a duely with Braid. Plus it’s three years old, and I’ve got to keep my fine tradition of never playing games anywhere close to when they’re actually released. Verdict? I paid $10 for it, and I feel like I paid a leetle too much for what I got. It feels like an experimental Flash game. For one thing, the presentation is like a German art house film. There’s no color anywhere. It…
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Video Games Should Be Fun
I’ve been into watching Extra Credits recently. It’s a documentary-style editorial series about where video games are going, what’s wrong with them, what’s right with them, and what we can all do about it. One of their videos was “Games You Might Not Have Tried”, and one of their categories was “Flash Games” that you can play online. I’m always looking for ways to waste time at work new games so I thought these would be worth a check-out. After all, these people seem to know what they’re doing. They’ve released editorials on “How to Play Like a Game Designer” and “Gamification” and “Narrative Mechanics” so it’s clear they know…
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A Lesson on Proper Sai Technique
Okay, here’s the thing: Every time you make a picture of Raphael holding his sai with his fingers wrapped around the prongs, and not the handle, you’re doing it wrong! You know what the point of a sai is? To catch the enemy’s sword or staff or something in between the prongs to disarm him. If your fingers are there when that happens, guess what’s going to happen?
