Fortuente

A little progress, emphasizing “little”

2010-07-15T17:48:58Z

Schleppery -- Muse, sing to me of the schleppery of Isis' son Fortuente, lugubrious, doomed, that cost the Oregonians countless food stamps, hurling down to the House of Fail so many fat bowls, great kind-bud bowls, but made their buds ash, feasts for house-plants and the compost, and the will of Odin was moving toward [...]

Lego Universe: totally sweet or totally sweetest?

2010-07-13T22:52:29Z

I am the father of a small boy. So I can tell you Lego Universe has been on my radar for most of this year, at least. I just came across a preview written by Jon Wood at mmorpg.com based on a LU presentation at E3. I guess it makes sense it would be thought [...]

LOVE’s first expansion released kinda

2010-07-12T22:32:01Z

The "alpha" release of LOVE's first expansion AVAIL was released today according to the LOVE fansite Gaming Love. Site administrator Iamacyborg wrote this about it: Matter Mixing: Players can now mine materials, and create automated mining platforms to gather materials. These materials can then be combined using the new matter melder's to create new effects, [...]

LOTRO Closed-Beta Non-Impressions

2010-07-11T19:24:53Z

Finally, the heatwave is at an end. I logged into the LOTRO closed beta and played for a bit last night and so now I am writing a post about nothing. Nothing because it is a *closed* beta, however I wanted to communicated a couple impressions I had that are vague enough that I am [...]

Rivendell, here I come!

2010-07-08T18:38:06Z

Guess what? I just got invited to the LOTRO closed beta! But SSSHHHH -- don't tell anyone, the e-mail made it sound a bit hush hush, and after the smackdown CCP gave one of their CSMs I don't want to rock any boats. Though I would wager closed beta invites are not all that rare, [...]

Interview with the Creator of Xemerys

2010-07-04T21:19:10Z

Xemerys is a browser-based game strategy game which goes farther than most I have seen in the number of wheels you as a player need to keep balanced and spinning. Rather than merely deal with increasing your population and keeping them fed and more than just building the right buildings for trade and war, Xemerys [...]

Back to DDO in Time for Update 5

2010-06-28T21:08:52Z

The thing I like best about Dungeons & Dragons' f2p model is that I have a hard time keeping up a steady playing schedule, but love to come back to the game. Sure, I've probably spent more buying adventure packs and 32-point builds and whatnot, but then again I also haven't paid a subsbscription for [...]

Reevaluation

2010-06-26T00:20:26Z

I have finally begun work once more on Project WOTAN. I am currently slogging away through the Administrative interfaces to the Item module, and I am almost "done." Of course, with the quotes ... when I say done, I am not factoring in the design work and requisite code debt. And then there is all [...]

Player Auctions As Money Sinks

2010-06-22T19:42:17Z

Recently, Brian "Psychochild" Green, of Meridian 59 fame, wrote two posts on the basics of an MMORPG in-game economy for the blog Game Design Aspect of the Month. I don't know if it was my green tea or my attempt to multi-task (and therefore my distracted state) whilst reading the posts that gave me a [...]

Another Crippled Sorcerer-King

2010-06-21T19:58:07Z

Hi, it's me. Just checking in with what I have been up to. So, I have accomplished almost literally nothing in the past week, whether that involves working on my PBBG project WOTAN or even merely playing a game. I have been watching my four year-old son alone this whole time, and he does make [...]