John Scott Tynes: Transubstantiating the aether since 1995
I spent much of my eleventh grade Advanced Math class drawing an enormous fantasy city on graph paper for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. If I knew then that one day my friends would make a horking 512-page full-color book all about their own enormous fantasy city, and that said city would be lousy with pirates and nameless horrors, I think I would have shit a brick. This Kickstarter is in its last few days — still time to check it out!
Got seven bucks? Then get the first episode of Kentucky Route Zero, a new adventure game for Windows/Mac. This was the first Kickstarter I ever backed, in February 2011, and at long last they’ve got the first episode out the door. I played the beta in December and loved it.
It’s a quirky mix of point-and-click adventure game with Bioware-style conversations and even some Infocom-style text-adventure sequences. The setting is a sort of Unknown Armies version of Kentucky, as a delivery driver and his hound dog meet a series of strange characters en route to a secret underground highway.
I loved the partial beta I played. Watch the trailer and give it a shot.
An artist friend of mine is producing this new 11″ artist’s model/armature via 3D printing that uses actual human proportions and range of motion, unlike those wooden mannequins in art stores. Very nicely done and just $20 while he’s raising funds to produce more.
Help me put this innovative armature to market. All of it will be produced and manufactured in my studio in Redmond, Washington
King of Dragon Pass is my favorite iPhone/iPad game. It’s a deep strategy game with strong storytelling. It sells for ten bucks, which is crazy talk in iOS land, but it’s worth the money. To celebrate selling their 25,000th copy, the game is 25% off for 25 hours. Get a copy and settle in. It’s unforgettable.
Get King of Dragon Pass on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Watching Ultraviolet again years after I first saw it. It’s still the most Delta Green-ish show I’ve seen. Terrific series — why no sequel?
Book-length critical appraisal of a single videogame? Shut up and take my money! http://t.co/iIfz1xBZ
It’s hard to put a word count on writer Brendan Keogh. During my time at Ars Technica he pitched me what I thought was a great article idea: He was going to embed himself in a game jam, staying up just as late as the participants, and write about the game creation process as it happened. We agreed o…
Read through all eight volumes of Dork Tower by @muskrat_john and it was like riding the Tardis through gaming history. http://t.co/kv4Df6En
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Trying to spot a shopping cart return spot in the parking lot, I caught myself thinking, “Looking for the Yellow Sign . . .”
Wired’s GeekDad columnist did a great write-up of my new job within Microsoft: http://t.co/2AmRmDiB
Microsoft Expands the Imagine Cup for 2013 | GeekDad | Wired.com
The 2013 Microsoft Imagine Cup registration is well underway with the tag line, "All dreams are now welcome." When I first heard about the changes, I was concerned about the shift in focus. After all, part of what made the Imagine Cup distinct among programming competitions was it's focus on global …