Jude hosted a “game day” yesterday, and lots of people showed up. I think at peak we had sixteen people in our house. From about 8:00 until midnight, we played Werewolf, a variant of Mafia. They were all interesting, dynamic, well-balanced game s. Here are the role lineups for these games:
2 [...]
Last Friday, I had my first real gig. I performed with Nolan and a few others in front of 40-odd people. We played eight Nolan originals:
Now Ain’t the Time
Greyhound Bound
Lead by Example
The Me Song
Movin’ On
2012
The Guy Who Learned to Fly
Hippie Chick (Encore)
The roster:
Nolan – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Fred – Drums
Devon – Electric Guitar
Luke – [...]
I want to make a Massively Multiplayer Real Time Strategy Game. Well, not so much massively as highly. I’m thinking around 100 players. I’m particularly interested in command structure: you have an RTS where every soldier is controlled by a real person, and then formally there are units of soldiers with a [...]
The improv band got together again last Saturday. Here are the recordings:
2007-03-10_01
2007-03-10_02
2007-03-10_03
2007-03-10_04
2007-03-10_05
2007-03-10_06
Their quality varies. #5 is the longest, and by the end it’s pretty cool, but there are some rough times getting there. #6 is pretty amazing—we had a guideline to prefer over-sparsity to over-density, and [...]
At work, I found myself needing to do a repetitive operation at compile time on a set of symbols. We all know what to do in that situation:
#define OPERATION(x) … some big long thing in terms of x …
OPERATION(symbol1)
OPERATION(symbol2)
[...]
With the release of Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 3, I’m being reminded that real-time strategy is my favorite genre, by leaps and bounds. There have been many games which have caught my attention, which I have had some fun playing. But I’ve played at least an hour’s worth of Supreme [...]
A while ago, I posted about a post to craigslist about setting up an improv band. Well, I did set one up, talking back and forth to many candidates, and picked three for our initial jam on January 22nd. We got along great musically, and have jammed a few more times since then, [...]
