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John Scott Tynes: Transubstantiating the aether since 1995
by John Scott Tynes
April 24, 2013

“A mountain walked or stumbled.”

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by John Scott Tynes
April 20, 2013

Bought a deck of Magic: The Gathering for the first time in my life. When I worked on it back in ’94-’95 I got it for free. TEAM BLUE!

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by John Scott Tynes
March 29, 2013

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!

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by John Scott Tynes
January 7, 2013

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.

Kentucky Route Zero

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by John Scott Tynes
December 4, 2012

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.

Armature9 Rig for Artists

Help me put this innovative armature to market. All of it will be produced and manufactured in my studio in Redmond, Washington

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John Scott Tynes, writer and game designer added 5 new photos to the album My Games.

by John Scott Tynes
December 3, 2012

John Scott Tynes, writer and game designer added 5 new photos to the album My Games.

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by John Scott Tynes
December 1, 2012

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.

King of Dragon Pass

Get King of Dragon Pass on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.

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by John Scott Tynes
November 27, 2012

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?

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by John Scott Tynes
November 26, 2012

Book-length critical appraisal of a single videogame? Shut up and take my money! http://t.co/iIfz1xBZ

The PA Report – Game criticism moves forward: Killing is Harmless is a 50,000-word look at Spec-Ops:…

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…

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by John Scott Tynes
November 25, 2012

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

DriveThruComics.com – Dork Storm Press – Collections – The First Download Comic Shop

Your one-stop, on-line shop for new and vintage Comic Books from independent publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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