“I’ve got something to send you,” said Jeremy, my old producer from Wired.com, while we were chatting on Facebook. He asked for my address, but I forgot that he’d done that. We generally reminisce about the good, old days. We don’t spend much time buying each other gifts. When the package showed up today, I […]
Lately I’ve been asking myself a simple question: “What’s next?” I go through these moments of self reflection as I near the end of a large project. In this case, I’m in the final stages of rewriting Dungeons & Dreamers after several years of on-again/off-again work with my friend and co-author John Borland. The book is […]
Two weeks ago, I announced that we would give away 5 copies of Dungeons & Dreamers (coming in March 2014) for the best stories about playing Dungeons & Dragons, or MMORPGS, or role-playing games, or computer games in general. The rules aren’t really important. Telling us a good story about playing games with friends is the key […]
Earlier this week, I announced that we would give away 5 copies of Dungeons & Dreamers (coming in March 2014) for the best stories about playing Dungeons & Dragons, or MMORPGS, or role-playing games, or computer games in general. The rules aren’t really important. Telling us a good story about playing games with friends is the key […]
Earlier this week, I announced that we would give away 5 copies of Dungeons & Dreamers (coming in March 2014) for the best stories about playing Dungeons & Dragons, or MMORPGS, or role-playing games, or computer games in general. The rules aren’t really important. Telling us a good story about playing games with friends is the key […]
Earlier this week, I announced that we would give away 5 copies of Dungeons & Dreamers (coming in March 2014) for the best stories about playing Dungeons & Dragons, or MMORPGS, or role-playing games, or computer games in general. The rules aren’t really important. Telling us a good story about playing games with friends is […]
While So Far Appalachia uses my family, the Bakers, as the backdrop for its narrative, the story is really about the larger issues that impact how we experience life in America. The more I research the book and the more I write on the blog, the more focused that will become on the site.
“Video games, however, can ask that we experience not only empathy but agency too. You don’t just feel with characters, you feel through them. You bind yourself to them and become temporarily responsible for their life onscreen. Whatever happens, you’re in it together.” — Tevis Thompson, Half-Lives: The Walking Dead: 400 Days, Sorcery!, and Depression […]
Earlier this week, I announced that we would give away 5 copies of Dungeons & Dreamers (coming in March 2014) for the best stories about playing Dungeons & Dragons, or MMORPGS, or role-playing games, or computer games in general. The rules aren’t really important. Telling us a good story about playing games with friends is […]
The holidays are upon us, and I’ll be on the road a bit for the next few days so I thought it might be fun to post some fun stuff while we’re collecting your storytelling entries for our contest. (You can see Entry 1 and Entry 2 here, along with my example entries and explanation […]
As part of a contest leading up to our book launch in March, I asked you all to submit your favorite stories about playing D&D, MMORPG, computer game, or really any community game. If you’re too concerned about the rules, you’re missing the point. It’s really pretty simple: Tell us the story you tell people when you […]
I received a Christmas card in the mail today from my middle school math teacher and his wife, although to classify them as simply that doesn’t do justice to our long relationship. Steve was the man who taught me how to program computers (back when I knew how to program computers). I would go to […]