and Jenny, my sister-in-law made the best wedding cake *ever* for Baron and I!
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Life:
1/1 — 2012 in Review
Recent Reading:
1/17 — Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
Advanced Squad Leader:
1/3 — G5 Six Came Back
1/10 — 3 The Czerniakow Bridgehead
1/17 — 2 Mila 18
1/24 — 6 Red Packets
1/31 — 16 No Better Spot to Die
Other Games:
1/29 — Dominating the Ice Age (Dominant Species)
The ASL set carries me out of the 'dry time'—three years of losses—for my victory in "No Better Spot to Die".
I've been thinking lately of doing a post where I talk about various podcasts I listen to, but right now I want to point out a particular episode I listened to today.
Three Moves Ahead is a great podcast about strategy gaming, and this week they had designer Chris Taylor on. He's done a number of different games, most of which are off the beaten genre path, including the greatest love/hate relationship of my gaming life: Total Annihilation.
The episode goes into a number of different things: Near the beginning they go into the faux-3D graphics of TA (which fooled many people into thinking it was true 3D rendering, and I thought for a bit was the most amazing sprite-system I'd ever seen; neither was correct), there's some more about programming trickery in the middle, and much of the end goes into something of a meditation on the state of the gaming industry, including the fact that it's possible to get a great amount of money on Kickstarter—if you're deliberately resurrecting an old property. If you're doing something new, not so much.
Episode 203 is here.
And while I'm talking, I'll mention episode 99, "War in the East", which has one of my favorite moments in the show.
Ran across this the other day and thought folks would like it. Not quite the Blanc and Dunain Roadshow, but pretty darn close. ^.^
** sorry for not being on for a while - I've been stupid sick for the last few weeks. Now that I'm feeling nominally better I've been crazy working to get caught up with work. Hoping to be back on this Friday.
Recent Reading:
12/18 - Babur the Tiger
Advanced Squad Leader
12/6 - DA11 Sicilian Midnight
12/13 - VotG21 Defending the Voentorg
12/20 - J124 Cobra Kings
12/23 - J157 Rage Against the Machine (FtF!)
12/27 - J19 Merzenhausen Zoo
That sequence actually reaches the end of the old threads I'm reposting. I never finished the reporting on J124, and had to write all-new material for the last turn. J19 is an all-new report from two/three year-old logs.
J157 was a recent face-to-face game that Patch and I got to do.
Finally, expect to see a post summarizing the last year on my blog soon, though of course, it'll be part of the January summary here in a month.
