Friday, October 30, 2020

New assessment: Ablaze works great for casual gaming

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  I have sometimes wondered if I have some kind of weird obsession with Heinrich Grumpler’s Ablaze, which is actually a thematically linked ...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

This is how the magic school genre got started?!

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I have been meaning to read the short story ‘The Wall Around the World’ by Theodore R. Cogswell for years. As I understand it, it was the fi...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Why does scary stuff work?

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  It’s almost Halloween. Our six-year-old has been obsessing about Halloween since August. So I feel like I should write about ghost and hor...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

I find out Clock Golf is a thing

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  I just discovered that there is a thing called Clock Golf. It was a 19th century lawn game. I found out it existed because George MacDonal...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Yes, I had to make my own Alone Among the Stars hack

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  I have been looking through the various hacks of Alone Among the Stars, designed by Takuma Okada. I realized I wanted to play a hack that ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

So Star Trek is Octonauts in space?

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  Octonauts is underwater, old school Star Trek with funny anthropomorphic animals but no red shirts or prime directive. While we tried havi...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Alone Among the Stars actually works

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  I recently stumbled upon Alone Among the Stars and its myriad of hacks completely by accident. I’d been looking into more conventional sol...