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I’m speaking at Interesting Portland, April 9th 2009

So there’s this thing! Yeah. Like the Ignite events, only more expensive and less irritating. I’ll be trying to teach everyone in ten minutes how to play story games. (Well, not those exact ones I talk...

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The Month in Comics

My girlfriend and I recently made good on a pledge to draw journal comics, for some definition of “journal,” every day for the whole month of May. You can find them on Flickr, along with those of...

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Some new things I’m doing

Think Again, My Friend! I’m the host and producer of this new comedy podcast in quiz-show drag. Learn while you laugh while you listen while you learn. The Soft Sciences, the name of my comics...

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The undiscovered country club

So there are these guys calling themselves the Verne & Wells Society who are setting up a “country club for geeks” in the Seattle area, as an alternative to mere hacker spaces or gamer pubs. They...

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Reconsidering the open loop: more on defining role-playing games

I want to expand the definition of “story game” I settled on in our last episode. (For those just joining us, my definition of “story game” underpins a definition of “role-playing game,” one of which...

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Comments must die

I’ve been blogging more lately, and getting some response – not here on my own domain, but on the various social networks on which I’ve been posting notices. (That’s Twitter and, to my occasional...

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Defining roleplaying, part 3: “impactfully” is too a word

To recap: A story game is a game which explicitly allows for players to make things up about fictional characters and events, allows whatever is made up to have a meaningful impact on the point of...

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MisubaTwine CompetiFest 20B

I am holding a Twine game design competition. Entries are due by midnight PDT on Friday, April 19. Send me some mail and either attach the game or give me a link. Put [Twine] in the subject line of all...

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Conservatism and roleplaying

There’s this story that you hear people tell, of a lost glorious age taken away by those with no right to it, and its last, struggling few defenders. This lost age is a time when there was no challenge...

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That funny-looking Roundhead kid

One of my favorite memories of childhood is lying on the floor of my Dad’s office at Northbrae Community Church – he was the minister, about which I have a great story that has been cut for time – in...

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