tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83576156989371565742011-11-28T17:38:14.949-05:00Ramblings of yet another media guyDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07346416589445807988noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357615698937156574.post-13235677881786062572011-03-12T15:44:00.001-05:002011-03-12T15:44:11.874-05:00

Cosplay

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They're Legos, see? Y'know, Lego Harry Potter?

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Prepare for yet another zombie uprising.

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I know this looks like run-of-the-mill booth babes, but they're actually Cheerios from Glee. Okay? And the reason they're at E3 is because there's a new game coming out called Karaoke Revolution: Glee. See, you get to sing along with the cast of Glee. It's not about the cheerleader outfits, really.

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Tron fanboy says, "Squee!"

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Reach this

Deanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07346416589445807988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357615698937156574.post-73891152132418307462009-10-22T13:13:00.006-04:002009-10-22T14:09:49.772-04:00

On Saturday, October 17, 2009 we had our first boardgame day at my new house. A bunch of us meet up every year at Unity Games to play games, and last year I said, "Why are we paying $15 each to meet in a hotel ballroom and play boardgames when we could meet at my house for free?"So we did.The day started out with Chaos in the Old World, a game based on the Warhammer 40K universe, I think.

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Puzzle @ Argfest on a cup.

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I was merrily following the main plotline, and checking off my little To-do's, when I come to a part where I have to rescue some kids from some slavers. Here are the little twerps:Yeah, they're cooling their heels in a slave pen. That's fine. I could just walk through the camp gunning down all the slavers and set them free (that's what Joe did, except with his sledgehammer), but I have to go

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I got Fallout 3 over Christmas when everyone else bought it, but it sat, unplayed, until May because, based on my experiences with Oblivion, once I started journeying in the Capital Wasteland, I wouldn't be coming out anytime soon. That's exactly what's happened.Fallout 3 has a different quest structure than Oblivion. Actually, it has the same structure for some quests, but different structures

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I finished this last night and I wanted to talk a little bit about the endgame.When we think about designing a game, we go through three basic steps:Define what you want the user to experience.Describe a mechanic that will lead to that experienceWrite the rules that will lead to that mechanicIn the previous interview (scroll down) Clint Hocking said:However, this high level of power in the

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It looks like the dragon is crapping Starbursts, but those are actually commoners who are about to either run away or be turned into red paste. You can just see Stan and Slashgoule behind the dragon, and you can't actually see Ricros at all because he's riding on the dragon's back.

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Controlling a game w/ your mind

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"Who is that guy? Do you think I should shoot him?"

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Mat's mecca

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GH job booth.

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I've now spent a lot of time with Far Cry 2 (not finished yet), and the story generation is still linear. The first half of the game is very open, but around halfway you are sent to a second map where stories are set up via linear terrain. Here, look at the maps.Note the path from one map to another, that's a classic gate. Then look at the lower map (which is the second one). Note the very

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This morning I had the perfect sniper moment.I crept up to the compound where I was told my target would be. It was just off a road, and I slowly crested a hill overlooking a number of buildings and a dusty yard between them. I wasn't too worried they'd spot me in the heavy jungle. Besides, I had my brand new camo suit on. It was also my first outing with the dart gun, which traded a range

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So the whole, "Take a picture with my phone and upload it to the blog immediately, which will make me head to the blog and write a post actually talking about what is in the picture" idea hasn't been working lately (as evidenced by the previous two posts which sport pictures but no real text. Unless, of course, I retcon and go edit them.)This is my Social Issues class plus a couple of auditors.

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The WPI GameJam came a week after IGDA's Global GameJam. That meant we had all WPI students participating, and no outside schools. Ah well.Over the weekend, groups started and worked on games for the Mass Game Challenge. 38 Studios sent designers, artists, and programmers over to talk to the teams, review their ideas, see what advice they could give, and provide pizza. We webcast the whole

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Despite the look of this picture, Darius Kazemi (the guy in orange, 'natch) is currently teaching a class for the upperclassmen on how to develop their own personal brand (aka networking to get a job). Part of the class was on writing a blog (and keeping it up) so I took a pic to show that you can take a phone pic and have it on your blog in moments.Darius has now moved on to Twitter and

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My father-in-law keeps this ship in an aquarium. It looks perfect, except... well, it looks like it's sunken. So there's this ghostly ship on the bottom of an aquarium with no fish, but nicely lit. It's beautiful, but disconcerting.

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About two weeks ago, while traveling around the internet, I found this:Which was really weird and interesting. People started talking about it over on SomethingAwful and Unfiction picked it up. After a brief discussion on QuarterToThree, a lot of people said, "I wish I had the time/energy/inclination to follow up on this, but I don't. I'd really love it if someone would just keep track of it

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My two writing partners in mid-session, amidst Cocoa Puffs, coffee, pretzels, and various energy drinks.On Friday night we started the "Show in 24 Hours" with nothing. We picked a cast (3 men and a woman, and what drama program has that ratio?), then went off to write. Generally, Mike and I riff on something-- the favorite this year was "ass" whether it was man-ass, elephant-ass, or baboon-ass,

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Married for two years and it's still pretty sweet.I marvel that we have the means to vacation on one coast (Seattle, WA) in August, and three months later we can take a weekend in Maine. Life is good.

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Not exactly beach weather, but clear and cold, and worth walking around. We had a gorgeous weekend in Ogunquit. I got in some good DS time while E shopped, and I tried out the new camera. This, however was taken with the cellphone because I can instantly post to the blog, thus I post to the blog.I still haven't even gotten the camera pics off the SD card and onto the computer, let alone done

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So a fat guy, a FABULOUS boy, and a pirate go to Disneyland...

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I think Dan is method acting, and Julia is just barely tolerating the two of them.

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Im wet

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Muppets go dark.

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Wake up to this.

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Yesterday was the first ever Boston Gameloop UnConference which took 45 local developers, threw them into the MIT-Singapore Gambit Lab and expected them to talk about interesting things.We did.This is the brainchild of Darius Kazemi and Scott MacMillan who have been turning the Boston Post Mortem into a real developer community over the last year or so (and I'm probably showing that I have my

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While waiting for our cappuccino and tiramisu. She is thrilled with me taking her picture. She is even more thrilled with the idea of this picture being posted on the internet.I am evil.

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Of the places we could have gone on Sunday, Dick wanted to see WPI. I wasn't exactly clamoring to head back to work during my vacation, but we thought that Higgins Armory would be a decent afternoon.We got a late start, after Sunday brunch, so we didn't arrive at the armory until 3pm. It closed at 4pm. I've been there before, but Dick was in hog heaven. The armory is great but you really need

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The neverending vacation continues. Elizabeth's parents were up this weekend, so we did touristy things around town. After the whole John Adams miniseries on HBO this fall (and I read the McCullough book), we decided to head down to Quincy to the Adams National Historical Park. One tour gets you three houses, two of which are mostly empty, because the Adams family (click, click) moved to the

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Tustians!

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Just had to post a link to this, because it's great. From the makers of The Guild comes The Legend of Neil, wherein a guy wakes up as Link in a Legend of Zelda game.I found it over at Dubious Quality, but it was in his Friday Links extravaganza and I thought it deserved better.

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So naturally after we return from Seattle I don't blog. I am a lazy bastard.The last day was "My Geek Day" which meant that I could plan anything I wanted. I considered a movie at Paul Allen's Cinerama, but The Dark Knight was playing and we've already seen that. Alex said that it was the best movie theater in Seattle and I would've liked to see a movie there, but no joy was to be had.So I

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Today was a day of scenery, but at least it wasn't raining.It started with yet another ferry ride to Whidbey Island.Then a quaint artists' colony, where overpriced art in small galleries captured the adults' attention. Personally, I was happy there were lots of dogs. One of the galleries even had a cat.Second quaint village of the day. Lots of dogs out on this pier. We had already eaten at a

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I have given in to the considerable pressure and last night I didn't record the day. I hang my head in shame.So we decided to to go Squolnamie Falls, where Twin Peaks was set. They lured me with the promise of damn fine pie.We got about 8 miles from Alex and Beth's house and decided to stop into one of the many wineries for a wine tasting.Had a great time tasting various wines and I went gaga

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Woke up to more rain in beautiful Forks, WA.Apparently there are big things going on in Forks. Twilight is some young adult book about a high school girl in Forks who falls in love with a vampire. Since Forks has the most rainfall of anywhere in the continental U.S., it's a pretty good bet that vampires won't be caught in the sun. The final book in the series is due to be published tomorrow,

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Sunset in Mukilteo

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So it begins.We are in nature.It is raining.Nature is wet. Wet and cold.We are wet and cold.But I'm getting ahead of myself. The day started clear and sunny, a fine day to head into nature. We checked out of the hotel, and while we waited for our car to come out, the doorman told us all that Boston was really flat. It had no mountains. He had an uncle who lived in Boston and never left the

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After the Museum of Flight we headed over to the Olympic Sculpture Park, which is right on the water. The day had cleared up and the sun was shining. We didn't have much time, just enough to take a leisurely walk on the waterfront.And take some artsy-fartsy photos of the city. This is an actual view, not photoshopped at all.I even got some time to sit and sketch the waterfront, which isn't as

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Elizabeth is very sneaky.I've officially got one day to plan as my own on this trip. That's Monday, and we're going to see a Mariners game that night. These first two days were doing mutual touristy stuff in and around the city. Today she suggested we go to the Museum of flight.I was in hog heaven.They have a space exhibit currently. It starts with Goddard (who went to WPI) and ends with the

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In Spaaaaace!!

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We arrived.So the plan was to do touristy things today, since we got here around 11am. This left the afternoon open for whatever we wanted. What I wanted was a nap. In order to catch our 6:20am flight we had to get up at 3:30am. I catnapped for a total of about 30 minutes on the flight.I could go on a rant about how the TSA isn't really keeping us safe by making us take our shoes off and

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First pics in Seattle

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So I have a new phone. No iphone for me, I can't afford that monthly plan. I got one of these:I rather like it. Elizabeth doesn't think it's as good as the old phone, but it certainly takes better pictures (2MP camera instead of VGA) and gets better reception. The speaker phone doesn't seem to pick up as much, so one of us can talk and both of us can hear the phone call, but if you're not

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The other day I went over to Crackle.com to watch Jack Thompson on the Jason Hall Show, thanks to Tom Chick's blog when I found Penn Says, which is just Penn Jillette talking on camera about whatever comes into his mind. He started doing it in January, and seems to be pretty regular with it. I've been listening to it for hours now, and I'm about halfway through them.As a fan of Penn &Teller and

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Just another test of the mobile picture sending equipment. Nothing to see here, move along.

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Last weekend ARGFest-O-Con '08 took place at the Radisson Hotel in Boston. I heard about it through the IGDA ARG Sig mailing list, and, after checking out their site, figured it was just a bunch of ARG enthusiasts from Boston.Except there were people there from all over the country, some of the biggest names in both commercial and independent ARGs, and the whole thing was sponsored by 42

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Today was the last day of Frontiers, a summer program where high school juniors and seniors come for two weeks to see (kind of) what college is like. I've been doing this for 14 years now in some capacity. The last three years I've been teaching the Art component of the IMGD "major."That means we have a week and a half of two hours per day classes. I speak for the first hour and then turn them

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The other night I was talking to my mother, and she asked if we had started packing for the trip. A week before leaving? Are you kidding? She said she would be mostly packed by now.What would you wear for that week?But I am getting my gadgets in order.Here's what I need to travel:That's a laptop (which is really too big, but I went crazy picking it out), ipod, cellphone (old one standing in

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Two posts in one day? Yeah, crazy.So the plan is to use this for the next couple of weeks to blog our trip to Seattle. I have made the crazy move of allowing Elizabeth to post to this too. We'll see if she does. I can now send email directly to this blog as text, and pictures directly from the camera phone.I am mobile. I am prepared. It's exciting.We're even going to invite my in-laws to

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The Dark Knight has been lurking nearby my desk since I was a child. This is actually a bank made by the defunct TransOgram toy company during the sixties. My Aunt Mary used to work there and brought this home for me when I went gaga over the Batman TV show (I was 4).Actually, this is also a first experiment with mobile blogging. Between a new cell phone and an urge to upload photos during our

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Well, I couldn't get the pic up with the OLPC. I could upload the pic to Blogspot, but when it said, "Hit Done" there was no "Done" button.So I tried to put the pic on Photobucket and paste the url in. I could copy the url to the clipboard, but couldn't figure out how to paste from the clipboard (Ctrl-V didn't work). I could've put the url in directly, but I couldn't see the entire url-- it's

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I'm typing this on my brand new OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). It's rather difficult, because the keyboard is designed for tiny fingers, and mine don't fit. So I'm doing two-finger hunt and peck.I ordered this in early December, in the hopes that my Social Issues in Interactive Media and Games class could develop ssomething for it. My class was over on February 27, so the OLPC is a tad late.

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Okay, so I haven't written anything here in awhile. Let's see, what's happened since last July?I played straight from Half Life, through Half Life 2, through Episode 1 and 2 and I loved every minute of it.I started playing Company of Heroes online with my friend Joe. We kill Nazis on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Team Fortress 2, baby!I jumped on the Companion Cube meme, desperately wanted a plush

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PG-13? Fuck.

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After years of sheepishly admitting that I've never played it, I finally played through Half-Life. Yeah, the original one. I started Halo at about the same time, so it was a nice contrast to play the 1998 shooter during the day, then the 2001 shooter at night. My TV has a wicked glare, so there is no console gaming (especially something as dark as Halo) during the day. Since it's summer, that

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Okay, so it's been awhile. I've been busily powering through games, but forgetting to take screenshots. I finally got around to this semi-ARG, Missing, and powered through that. I'm trying to put together a project on making a permanent ARG, i.e. one that you can start at anytime and it will work. Most ARGs nowadays have a set runtime (the Halo 3 ARG just started up over at Society of the

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Immediately after making that post, I went back and finished the game.One more flaming boss.One more flaming, mutated boss.:sigh:

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First off, I have now determined that I cannot keep this updated during the busiest time of the year. It's been awhile since I've updated, mostly because of ARG-mania, then grading mania (more like depression).But I've had the week off, and now that I've kicked the Oblivion monkey off my back, I dug into the backlog and booted up this gem:I've given this away as a prize in class, and I've heard

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This weekend I finished Oblivion. Well, I didn't really finish it. I finished the main storyline.And the Mages' Guild storyline.And the Knights of the Nine storyline.And I think that's enough.I've finished many other stories while traveling through Cyrodiil. I've solved problems large and small. I've met vampires and kings, bandits and prostitutes, beggars and ghosts. There's a lot there.

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This is quite possibly the silliest game ever. It's a little flash game where the words "candidate01" through "candidate05" come floating out from the center. The player controls a crosshairs and must locate and click on as many candidate02's as he can in one minute. The best I've ever done is 24 zaps in the minute. One person online claims to have gotten over 100, but I think he's lying as I

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So over the weekend I finally played a little game from the Independent Games Festival called De Blob. This was the entry from the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht, Netherlands in the student competition. It's a great little game where you play an alien blob that rolls around absorbing people of different colors, changing colors yourself, and painting buildings whatever color you happen

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So here's Yet Another Blog. I'm starting this during my most busy time, figuring that if I can get a post a day out when I'm really busy, it'll be cake when I'm not. It could just be another blog with two posts and then nothing forevermore.I will try.The idea is that I feel in between academia and industry, in between drama and games, in between scholarship and creation. I am not a delicate

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