Category: Blog
One-Sheet: It’s Okay
Today’s one-sheet shout-out is to the self-described serial blogger, Peter Raaymakers! If you’re on Twitter, give him a follow. I get a yuk or two a day seeing this guy’s tweets stream past. He’s clever, and no wonder–he’s one of them communications guys. Thanks for chiming in when I was crowdsourcing! Paddle your own canoe, guys and gals. Trevor
One-Sheet: Super
Today’s one-sheet shout-out is to Martin Couto, who is a joy to banter with on Twitter. He’s an all-around awesome dude, an avid gamer, and a conaisseur of tasty beverages. He’s leveraging these beverages in an upcoming beers and bistros blog that will be called Opulence & Libation. I won’t link to the partially-completed site, but in the meantime you can follow the brains behind it on the Twitters. Marty also tweets as the Beer Baron, and his O&L partner in crime is at beernbite. Go chat with Martin! You’ll come away with a…
One-Sheet: On Beauty
Today’s one-sheet shout-out goes out to the lovely Nadine Thornhill! Nadine is a super-groovy blogger, sex educator, playwright, burlesque performer, mom and partner, and much more. Go read her fantastic blog, Adorkable Undies, and now watch her video! And encourage her to get on camera more, because she is nine kinds of fabulous. Nine kinds. And not one of those kinds of fabulous involve pants. Paddle your own canoe, guys and gals, Trevor
One-Sheet: Four-way Stop
One-Sheet: New Environment
One-Sheet: Tauntaun
My sister texted me late last night: What’s the internal temperature of a tauntaun? Now, Nerd Sister, being a nerd, frequently texts me things like this. Recently, it was questions about the Sword of Shannara series and why Kryptonite hurts Superman, being that he’s from Krypton. So I treated it like any of her other questions: with a degree of critical integrity. It would have to keep Luke warm in the frigid wastes of Hoth until Han got the shelter up, right? Hmm. Warm enough that it would maintain human core…
To Gamers, and Those Who Love Them: Be Better.
Trigger warning, in advance, for discussions of and links to documentation of rape culture, threats of sexual violence, death threats There has been a fairly intense – debate? Argument? – happening on Twitter and across blogs for the last few days regarding sexism, misogyny, violence against women, online conduct, and gaming culture. Maybe you’ve seen it; Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist pop culture media critic, launched a Kickstarter to fund a series examining the depictions of women in games. Tropes v. Women in Video Games has already been fully funded, with…
Conundrum
I made a pretty bold promise in Throw It Against the Wall* a little while ago. That was that 2012 is the year I make a video game. I really thought I had it figured out. I wanted to finish and put to rest an idea that’s been kicking around since, probably, seventh grade. It’s evolved since then, but the core of it has always been the same. A story about relationships in wartime, about disparate definitions of right, about making tough choices and taking terrible, necessary action that you know…
What My Favourite Games Say About Me
Yes, this is a nerd thing. 100%. I came across this list of what games say about the people who play them. I find them unnervingly accurate. What do your favourite games say about you? Here are mine: Minecraft: You’re a very attentive lover. No comment. Starcraft: You like cooking, but not baking. Check out some Throw It Against the Wall for discussions about how much I don’t like baking. And how much it doesn’t like me. Portal: You’ve started a Twitter hashtag game. Several times. Sigh. Civilization: You get excited by the bulk…
I AM NOT DEAD.
It’s been since before Christmas that I blogged a blog. So here I am, letting you know that I have not, in fact, died. In fact, I’ve been pretty busy. Over the Holidays I went to Costa Rica. Be jealous. This is in the jungle, on the side of a mountain, within sight of the Pacific, in the middle of nowhere on the Nicoya peninsula. While I was there, I had some beer and met a dog. Oh, and a pig. I got back at about 2 AM Dec. 30th…
Beautifying Gaming, Part One
So, late in 2010, I bought myself a SNES. It was the first console I’ve ever owned. I have seriously fond memories of playing NHL ’94 (at least, I think it was ’94–the one that brought in fights), GT Racing, Mortal Kombat etc. over at my buddy Paul‘s place down the street. Bikes would get piled out in front of the garage and the neighbourhood kids (our group, who I now refer to as “the Briargreen Old Boys”) would get piled up on the couch, swapping controllers between four or…