Randomonday: 11/4/2013
Each Monday evening, we pick someone at random from players who are online and award them a random amount of Saga Points – as much as 30,000. This week’s Randomonday winner is Kethren! And the prize amount: 10,644 Saga Points.
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NaNoWriMo 2013: Knee Deep, Installment 1
In the purple November twilight, the abomination rising on the east side of Interstate 95 looked to Jim Larman more like the familiar silhouette of his youth: a great sombrero atop the 200-foot tower of the roadside attraction formerly known as Nico’s Natural Wonderland. But then, inevitably, the rosy pink neon and spotlights switched on,…
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The arsenal, gathering dust…
Quick sketches of some of the many characters I’ve portrayed in real-time online roleplaying (on OtherSpace and elsewhere) over the years:
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Long time hooked…
Zork was my gateway drug. Using a relatively basic command parser, this text-only computer adventure game by Infocom allowed a single player to explore a grid of rooms, solving puzzles and gathering treasure, all the while trying to avoid being devoured by a grue in dark chambers. I had no idea when I first played Zork, back…