Pack Rat
my utter lack of blogging lately has been entirely due to playing a facebook game called pack rat. It's a card trading game and is completely addicting. I've completely neglected numerous obligations to friends and household maintenance due to this game. In other news, my eye doctor says my eyes are healing exactly as expected. Though they're still blurry and...
Games
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Rumor: Katamari for Wii?
The rumor is flying on all the gaming sites out there on the interweb tubes, but the article has been pulled from the original source: Beautiful Katamari is set to be released in the USA on October 17th for $39.99 on the PS3 (with SIXAXIS support) and XBOX 360. The Wii version will arrive shortly after on November 14th on...
Video Games I'd Love to Play
I've picked these up several times in the store, but they're PC games, and I have a Mac, so I haven't bought 'em. I wish they made more games like this for the Xbox -- I tend to not be interested in the "kill kill kill, die die die" shooting games, but that's most of what you find for Xbox...
Video Game encouraging killing gay people
A description of the new "Left Behind" video game, based on the series of books, the game will be release in October 0f 2006, just in time for Christmas. The synopsis is from the "Talk to Action" website. The game has been previewed at video game exhibitions. Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is...
Destroy All Humans
EB Games finally had the Xbox game "Destroy All Humans" on sale used when I went in there this weekend, so I got it. It's loads of fun. You're an alien tasked with invading the planet earth and gathering human DNA, which contains the pure DNA pattern for your alien race, which has degraded over the years. You start...
Pillow Fight Club
More public game ideas -- Pillow fight Club is where strangers arrange to get together and have a giant pillow fight, with some specific rules: Tell everyone about Pillow Fight Club. Tell everyone about Pillow Fight Club. Turn up at the arranged Pillow Fight Club venue with pillow hidden in a bag. At the exact given time pull out pillow...
World of Warcraft and GLBT Guilds
Interesting... Blizzard Entertainment, the company that produces the World of Warcraft MMORPG is penalizing players for identifying themselves as gay in the game, saying that they are doing it for the "protection" of gay players: While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a 'GLBT friendly' guild is very likely to result...
Graphic Artist Ian Albert
Ian Albert is an awesome graphic artist who has some interesting hobbies - like constructing huge maps of game worlds by grabbing screen captures. I was fascinated by Super Mario world, which I played with my old roommate back in 1993. He also has some other colossal images, like and enormous map of the world, that if printed, would be...
Public Games and "Design Your Own" Games
This improv group gathered a bunch of people, had them stand in the windows of a large commercial building and do a dance routine to entertain people in the park below. Then there's the Zombie Village Playtest, created by Avant Games. And 20 Exquisite Rules, also by Avant Games....
DIY Chess Figures
Site that tells how to build your own chess figures out of Nuts and Bolts. Quite a while back I saw a chess set in the background of a TV show that was a chess set made of different sizes and styles of salt and pepper shakers, and I wanted to create that. But when I started looking at buying...
Melissa Etheridge and other cool stuff
My friend Amy gave me Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled by Melissa Etheridge a few weeks ago. I've been listening to it, but didn't get around to paying attention to some of the new tunes on it until this week. There's a very beautiful song called "This Is Not Goodbye" about going into surgery and having a loved one...
King Kong Day 1
I should blog about last night's city-county council meeting, which I attended to view the introduction of Proposal 622 to amend the Human Rights Ordinance. But I'm too excited to do that because the King Kong game for Xbox is released today, and I have to go get my copy. According to the King Kong Official Strategy Guide you can...
This game is so addictive
Check out this online game Called Sobics School....
Dance Dance Revolution
Oh, I forgot to mention that Stephanie and I got out the Xbox game Dance Dance Revolution for the first time this Sunday and played it. I am an uncoordinated dork, but it's incredibly fun. Hopefully the more I play the less of an uncoordinated dork I will become....
The Game
Another fascinating public-space game....
Public Space Games: Ministry of Reshelving
I'm a bit behind on reading Boing Boing, so I'm just now perusing Wednesday's post about a new city-wide game: the Ministry of Reshelving, by Avant Game, a woman's personal blog where she discusses some of the public games she's created and participated in. Basically, following certain rules, you go to a bookstore and take George Orwell's 1984 and reshelve...
blog for city-wide games
I'm going to have to look at this site in more detail later -- it's a site based in New York City that holds city-wide games, such as capture the flag, and man hunt. Sounds like fun. I know there's a site like it in San Francisco, because Ernie from Little Yellow Different particpated at one time, I think. I'd...
Fable Walkthrough Tips
The Bella Online walkthrough was most helpful in figuring out what I was doing wrong in the archery test. Also, see the comments for another walkthrough that I used to figure out stuff. Also, I used the walkthrough here: http://faqs.ign.com/articles/553/553965p1.html I'm currently stuck in Hobbe Cave, so I don't know some of the rest of the stuff. I've also on...
Fable Walkthrough Tips
The Bella Online walkthrough was most helpful in figuring out what I was doing wrong in the archery test. Also, see the comments for another walkthrough that I used to figure out stuff. Also, I used the walkthrough here: http://faqs.ign.com/articles/553/553965p1.html I'm currently stuck in Hobbe Cave, so I don't know some of the rest of the stuff. I've also on...
Strategic Non-violence Video Game
This is NOT an April fools joke: Sponsored by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the game, called “A Force More Powerful,” resembles a cross between a political science model and one of the popular city-builder games. The player represents the chief of staff of a non-violent resistance movement. He gives orders to various characters within the movement, who will...
Xbox.com
I bought an Xbox at lunch today. I got it used, but just barely. The guy who had it played it once and brought it back to exchange for the new Playstation 2. It's the limited edition Halo box, which came with the Halo game and is transparent green. I also got a second controller and the game Fable. And...
Red Marble Games (Mac video games)
I got a free download of the Holiday Express video game (similar to a Tetris game) with my .mac account through Apple, and because I enjoyed it, I looked up the company that made it, Red Marble Games, and played a few of their other free demos. I ended up buying Digby's Donuts, which is a lot of fun. You...
Review: The Settlers of Catan
At first glance, you wouldn't expect The Settlers of Catan game to be as addictive as everyone who's played it claims that it is. For one thing, there are two thick, daunting rule books ("Game Rules" and "Almanac") and the playing pieces themselves are fairly non-descript wooden block-like house structures and "little rectangles" that turn out to be roads. If...
Trivial Pursuit: Book Lover's Edition
The Book Lover's Edition is played very similarly to the regular editions of Trivial Pursuit; the goal is to collect pieces of pie representing different categories of questions, and then to land directly on the center of the board to answer a final question in the category chosen for you by your opponents. Unlike other versions, there are only four...
Best of 2004
Kottke.org's Best Links of 2004 Roger Ebert's Best Films of 2004 MSNBC's Year in Pictures 2004 The Washington Post's best photos of 2004 The NY Times Year in Pictures 2004 Discover chooses the top 100 stories in science for 2004 Amazon's Best Books of 2004 Amazon's Best DVDs of 2004 Salon Magazine's The top 10 books of the year Salon...
My Board Games
I love board games, and have 100+ different games in my collection. So far....
Bethump'd With Words
My girlfriend has a regular Wednesday night gathering with her friends, and last night they came over to my house and we played the board game Bethump'd With Words, which is a lot of fun. I had never played it before, but I really enjoyed it. Among other things, I learned what "Network Standard English" is....
1982 Video Game high scorers...
Boing Boing has a really great post on Life magazine's 1982 magazine spread on the hot teen craze, arcade video gaming, with the best of the arcade gamers meeting at the Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa to battle it out for the high score. The picture they have of the geek kids is pretty classic, but what's even better...
Weekend Update
So I spent the whole weekend moving at a leisurely pace, which was very refreshing after months of whirlwind activity. Friday night was Girl's Game Night at Vic's/Outword Bound, which is always very fun. I bought The Truth About Jane and Tipping the Velvet on DVD from Outword Bound, which now has an online store, by the way. Check it...
ooooo... I need to revisit this online game
When I have more time to play around with it. Quest for the Crown....
Office Space: The Webgame
Using your arrow keys, collect the folders and grab money while avoiding the boss at all costs....
Trogdor, The Burninator!
To play the Trogdor game, Use the arrow keys to control Trogdor. Stomp ten peasants to achieve burnination. Burn all cottages to progress to the next level. Brought to you by Strong Bad and Homestarrunner. For the origins of Trogdor, check out the Strong Bad e-mail about drawing a dragon. Heck while you're at it, read all of Strong Bad's...
My Favorite Atari Game Ever - Adventure
Is now a flash video game by Scott Pehnke - Adventure. That's so cool. Except that I can't play it until tomorrow when I'm not at work. :-(...
Mini-Putt-Putt
Another addictive online video game: Mini-Putt-Putt. Have fun....
fun with Macromedia Flash
Some people have way too much fun with Macromedia Flash. Damn them for being cool. After you're done playing with all of the cool games at the beginning, enter the site and look through his links. He's got some damned cool links you could sit and surf through all day. Which reminds me, I need to update my links....
Junkbot Lego game
I spent a couple hours last night playing this online game from Lego. Unbelievable addictive. Very cool....
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