The Secret World
My current secret MMO crush is Funcom’s The Secret World, which will be a modern dark fantasy conspiratorial MMO. I don’t expect much from it, which is why it’s a crush — the ideas are hot but as much...
View ArticleElder Scrolls Online Launched Clean
So saith Massively. I am not at all surprised given what I know about the engineering teams working on that title. I am, nonetheless, tickled pink by this paragraph: From my 50-hours-of-playtime...
View ArticleThis Way To The
I’ve been playing a lot of Ingress recently. Short form: it’s Google’s augmented reality alien invasion PvP game; you physically go to in-game portals, which correspond with the locations of landmarks,...
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Point Bonita Lighthouse
Susan and I spent the afternoon hanging out at Point Bonita Lighthouse on the off chance that someone of the blue persuasion would drop by and try to do something interesting, in which case we had...
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Badging
I think I’m the first Ingress player in the Bay Area to hit platinum specops, which means I’ve done 200 missions. (Missions are player-generated mini-quests that can be as easy as interacting with 4...
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Another Thursday Night
This is what I did with my evening. To be precise, I had a small part in creating the conditions that made this possible. We did not execute perfectly for various and sundry reasons, but that’s what...
View ArticleIt’s OK, My Lawn is Your Lawn
My perspective: veteran Ingress player, no previous experience with Pokemon Go, a fair bit of mobile gaming work experience. I’m not gonna do the whole “wow, look at the wild news story!” thing. Hot...
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Ingress in West Seattle
On Saturday, Susan and I spent the day in West Seattle doing an Ingress mission series. The ceiling of Luna Park Cafe We started out at Luna Park Cafe, a decent breakfast place. You have your...
View ArticleArt and Games
My friend Pongo wrote an artist’s statement about Ingress. She speaks truth: I have worked with Pongo for over a year now and her ability to infuse the canvas of the game with story is inherently...
View ArticleCovid Update
One of the ways I knew I was getting sick was that my ability to code dropped through the floor, so I’ve been fiddling with things from time to time as a test. I’m still veering between faint positive...
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