Gamma testing a game

My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s hacked around with “a start-to-finish path with spaces that have effects”-style board games in the past that were clearly thought up and filled in on the fly–but this…

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What I read this month

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo seems to be pretty divisive. Either you like it or you don’t. After making a solid go of it and getting pretty deep into the book, I ended up being in the latter category, just from Larsson’s style, which didn’t jibe with me enough that it finally bumped me…

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Isolation Day 38 Game: Labyrinth

In Labyrinth, each player is a wizard seeking secret treasures in a maze where the hallways and walls are always shifting. The game board is designed with square maze pieces that are adhered to create an open grid pattern where loose modular maze tiles are randomly placed. Some of those tiles (both adhered and loose)…

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Old dog, new tricks: Stop motion videos

I’ve occasionally wondered if there are apps to help create stop motion video. Today it hit me again, and this time, rather than allowing my brain to get distracted with something else (as happens an embarrassingly huge amount of the time), I actually sought out such a beastie. Not surprisingly, there were quite a number…

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Old dog, new tricks: Learning ukulele

My daughter has been playing the ukulele for a couple of years now through school classes, and she’s getting pretty good at it. And as all parents can appreciate, it’s a big bonus that she actually likes playing it. Win-win. When the order for household isolation came down, the school was pretty quick to offer…

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