The 2011 IntroComp is on!
Ice Cream Jonsey Last year, I entered the IntroComp, which is a yearly competition that encourages authors to submit the intro of their in-progress text adventure. I took second place, but I also…
Ice Cream Jonsey
Cryptozookeeper at the OVGE
I had a chance to demo Cryptozookeeper at the Oklahoma Video Game Expo over the weekend. It was really inspiring to see person after person, and kid after kid walk…
[New Game] Cryptozookeeper
Cryptozookeeper is finished. Download it through the Internet Archive here. All of the other info I have on the game is at http://www.cryptozookeeper.com, which actually re-directs back to this blog.…
Haunted Houses, Haunted Dreams
The setting I usually write is most easily described as the near future. In 1999, when I wrote Chicks Dig Jerks, I set it in 2014 – a decade and…
The Last Cryptid
The first cryptid was a Big Foot costume. My good friends Randy, Dusty and I shot a black and white video of Big Foot wandering, as he is wont to…
Understatement
Five years is entirely too long to spend on a single video game. I’ll never do so again. It was April of 2006 when I took SHELL.HUG from the Internet…
Creative Commons Music and Your Text Adventure
The game I am just about finished making couldn’t have existed without Creative Commons, and I’d like to take a sec to explain how it worked for me, and how…
Arcade Manual PDFs on the Internet Archive
Well, well, well: lookee here. That’s a the manual to the arcade version of Pac-Man, in pdf form. There is already a nice stash of arcade manuals on pdf.textfiles.com, but…
Marble Madness, Pac-Man GDC Post-Mortems
I have a Marble Madness cabinet currently being shipped to me. I have been turned onto these Game Developers Conference post-mortem vids – won’t you let yourself be turned on…
The IF Theory Reader
I’m trying to backfill a little bit, having been away from a computer for much of last week, trying to help orchestrate the revival of the Old Man Murray Wikipedia…