Author: Brian
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Game Design: Musical Temperatures (Farenheit only, I guess)
Example: Weather dot Com’s May 18th, 2026 11:10AM Eastern high and low for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are 91 and 69, giving the years 1991 and 1969: Alternate Rules:
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Thoughts After Four Hours of Amberspire
disclosures: I know nic (designer and director), and I have played lots of games with nic, and that makes me familiar with their sensibility. I am not a city-builder player. amberspire is on steam edit: nic’s bluesky thread of all of the people who worked on the game is a good corrective for my glossing…
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That Poem Which I Like Is Going To Come Back Into Style
follow up to a poem which I like (“The next step (of course) is to request Nature With Man from the university library.”) MossJon Silkin ‘Patents’ will burn it out; it would lie thereTurning white. It shelters on the soil; quilts it.So persons lie over it; but look closely:The thick, short green threads quiver like…
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A Puzzle In Microid’s Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
In Microid’s Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Orient Express, there’s a minigame where you turn dials on a briefcase lock. A click sounds plays as you pass each number, with a louder sound played on the correct number for each dial. The dial is surrounded by a white oval which becomes squiggly as each…
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a poem which I like
“Moss”, by Jon Silkin as quoted in The Unofficial Countryside, by Richard Mabey (introduction by Iain Sinclair) The next step (of course) is to request Nature With Man from the university library.
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Paratext – columns at Joystick Division and Unwinnable – 2011-2013 (with two post-Paratext pieces from 2014)
“From 2011-2014 I wrote some columns called “Paratext” for the websites Joystick Division and Unwinnable. These are those columns.” is a collection of columns I wrote for Joystick Division and Unwinnable. The rest of this post is the same as on my other zine pages. Have fun! You can download the PDF above, and then…
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Electronics I Have Purchased But Don’t Use (yet?)
I finished up a month+ long clean-out with lots of donate/keep/trash sorting, and these all are still kept. Along with my other music gear and my photography gear. Most of that was cheap and untouched for years now, gathered over nearly 25 years. Maybe all of that can go into some rubbermaid containers in the…
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I Made U a Mix (CD)
Friend Blush Response posted in discord this weekend about the power of CDs, and then blogged “Music is a vehicle for human connection. Don’t let streaming strip that power away”, a journey through tween-and-teenhood and compact discs and sharing music. In between these two posts, I was inspired to finally go through the stack of…