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Another Milestone 5000

May 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Blogs

In August 2005 I made a big deal about passing the 5000 hit counter for all time. That took about nine months. May 2006 on its own will have 5000 hits. Plus the few dozen who get the feed through Feedburner or Bloglines or Google Reader or what have you. Traffic is growing steadily and […]

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Random Things

May 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Me, Stardock

I’ve been trying to hammer out an article for the latest Gaming Round Table, but I’m not very happy with how it is turning out. I guess I still have a week, but it’s one of those cases where you have an idea and some witty phrases, but the argument is in that netherworld between […]

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Plugging a developer blog

May 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogs, Imperium

Just thought I’d post a link to Michael Akinde’s developer blog for the still-in-planning stages Imperium: Rise of Rome. I love developer blogs when they provide some insight into how they see game design. Michael has, so far, laid out the basics of his political system and just added a bit comparing Age of Napoleon […]

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Rise of the Bauman

March 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogs

You can’t keep a good writer down, so Steve Bauman has started blogging, opening with a reflection on what 300 and Children of Men can teach game designers about narrative. Read his wisdom at Manic Pop Thrills. No, I don’t know what that means either.

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Idiots

March 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogs

The gaming press has always run heavily on rumor, but there comes a point when reporting rumors gets to the harmful stage. Like when the rumor slanders a publication’s credibility. And is based entirely on a Gamespot forum post. There seems to be this idea that if you say that it is just a rumor, […]

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Blog Management

March 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Blog Management · Blogs

I’ve added a plugin that list recent comments to the sidebar, but removed the category listing. There are still categories, but they aren’t on the sidebar, mostly because the list was too long. The search function should help some people, and the tags at the bottom of each post will still refer readers to similar […]

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