*blink* I can’t believe I just spent the last four hours programming in Blender as a way to kill time. I think I’ve realised something about myself, though. I’m easily addicted to problem-solving. As long as I am reasonably familiar with the parameters of the problem, I can spend endless hours trying a bunch of [...]
Another week, another column… I think I might like doing this. It’s like a constant stream of thought every week. I’m adding a new category this time… K-pop, by which I mean everything to do with Korean popular culture, including TV shows, music, gossip and others. This week’s entertainment was largely dominated by anime/manga, games, [...]
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Ah… the winners for the Independent Games Festival (which is something like the game industry’s equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival) were just announced. Carneyvale: Showtime, which was nominated as one of the Grand Prize Finalists, didn’t win. Blueberry Garden won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize instead. Congratulations to them, and well done!
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This is the first of a bunch of posts regarding my insights gained after a week-and-a-half of playing three simulation games in succession. We’ll start with the simplest and shallowest of insights: what I perceive to be the real dangers of simulation games. I’ll first talk about the reasons why its’ important to think about, [...]
The trouble with having so many interests is that it’s very difficult to blog about them all, because I tend to want to go into depth with every post I write. And sometimes, I don’t have any major insightful posts about the subjects at hand, but just some random scattered thoughts. So I figured the [...]
Continue reading about 2 Cents a Week #1: Of Musketeers, Mark and Marriages
