Infrequent posts about stuff.
I thought it was interesting that the mention of “Wits & Wagers” in a recent Microsoft Xbox announcement did not mention that it was a video game version of a fairly well lauded board game. Mostly I’m just looking forward to having another game to use my Big Button controllers with.
One of the things that I’m enjoying most about Chain Factor, besides the incredibly addictive game, is the code hints/easter eggs that you get sometimes that show up as an “error message”. Like this one:
ERROR 003
LEVEL 3 / CODE NNN
* UPPER BOUND FOR BASIC SCORES?
* ok i’ve got to stop playtesting and start coding. i’m starting to see
* colored discs everywhere i look. do we know the upper limit on
* basic mode scoring? i’m thinking about memory allocation…
* -F* No we don’t. Figuring that out is the players’ job.
*
* Here’s another to do: find someone in the Minneapolis area to check
* on the OOH which should be up: 494 and hwy 77 - might need some
* searching around.
* /s
Incredibly fun stuff. Give it a try.
Update Finally got error 1 again:
ERROR 001
LEVEL 1 / CODE NNN
* MEDIA MATRIX
* s, this printout is unreadable - i’m missing half the entries in the
* locations column…
* -F* Yes, actually it would be useful if you could go out and confirm that
* these are up:
* LA Century N/L E/O Aviation - should be obvious.
* 1815 Hawthorne 90278 - not sure about this one, you may have to
* look around a bit.
* /s* can’t wait to see your mad media jamming skillz
* -F* We’re going to put Primacy to shame - not just sticking up a few
* posters but appropriating the media machine on a grand scale.
* /s
Update 2 Yet another one:
ERROR 007
LEVEL 1 / CODE D
* ++Power Outage?++
* F, why is MAX_POWERS set to 1 here, what is this?
* /s* this is totally the idea, one power, no greys, but garbage starts at
* max frequency - fast and furious, on ly the stong survive!* This wasn’t in the spec. I get the idea, but next time let me know
* before you implement something like this.
* /s* ok boss.
The other one is all M’s fault. Well, probably whoever wrote the game actually. #Powered by Twitter Tools.
I really want some one to do a feminist deconstruction of the the game: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble.
No really. I honestly have no idea what to think about it. None at all.
You know, I’m amazed at how much news there is out there. I mean, when you really think about it.
From the guy who skunked me at one game of cribbage during lunch, and won the next fairly handily.
From the maker of the Grow series, some of my favorite puzzle games ever, comes Dwarf Complete! I may or may not have stayed up all night trying to complete it, and I only needed hints from the web twice! Woot!
I had an excellent evening playing games with Shaun and Scott where we played “I’m the Boss” by Face 2 Face Games for the first time. We only had time to play through it once but it was incredibly fun. It seems to be an extremely well balanced game at this point, though it’s hard to say for sure after only one session. Very highly recommended.
Because I’m a big geek, I find the results of the hardware survey performed by the Steam service to be absolutely fascinating. Seven people who responded to the survey play games with 8 processors/cores. 93.96% have DVD-ROM drives. I only wish that last statistic were true of the customers for the products that I work with. 
Originally I had a lot of this stuff on the About Me page but I decided to move it all over here to reduce clutter. Essentially, this is where all of the badges and widgets that I don’t want cluttering up the sidebar but think are kind of interesting or at least are useful as reminders of various places on the net go to die.
My car mileage averages:
Great fun, but not for people who get motion sick.
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