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Wednesday 25 August 2010, 19:56
I got sick over the weekend, probably from all the stress, so for the
past few days I've been working from home, and not working very hard. I've
also been playing a lot of Dwarf Fortress. This
has involved a steady stream of exclamations along the lines of "Goddammit
what kind of mother carries her baby into the extremely dangerous aquifer
layer?" and "Caution. Siege engine practice area." After one fort got
wiped out by goblins (the goblins only killed a few dwarfs, but then the
others were so upset they flipped out and started killing each other) I
decided that the next one would have a proper military, and that turned out
to involve a unit called the "Royal Dwarven Kilted Axemen." So, naturally,
I had to share the below.
Monday 5 April 2010, 13:19
Re-posting of an article first posted in May 2007.
Okay, here's a game sketch. This idea is supposed to be a game that
could live on a Web site somewhere, support a large number of players, but
be fun to participate in even if you are brand new, or only connect
occasionally, or if there are few or no other players. Kind of like
Wikipedia - except that my idea would actually know it's a game, unlike
Wikipedia which thinks it's an encyclopedia. I'm posting this here to make
it harder for anyone to patent.
Friday 2 April 2010, 19:16
Re-posting of an article first posted in September 2008.
You are an officer, say a commodore, in
the military-diplomatic-exploration organization of an interplanetary nation
with United Federation of Planets (UFP) membership. You've been tasked with
asserting your nation's interests with respect to a certain out-of-the-way
planet that happens to be rich in natural resources. Unfortunately, it's
already inhabited, by a race of disgusting natives we will call the Filthy
Humans.
