Façade: A card game of bidding, bluffing, and battle
I’ve been messing around with game design recently. Here’s a fun card game I made up that my wife and I took to right away. There were exclamations of “Oooh, you stinker!”, outrageous laughter, and...
View ArticleWhat WordPress Themes are really about (and WordPress 4.1)
I’ll be committing code to WordPress again with version 4.1! I made my last big contribution with Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven where I had a hand in both design and coding. (It was with Twenty Eleven...
View ArticleCat Thing
Still messing around with the Wacom Stylus and the iPad. Now with the Paper app as well.
View ArticleUsing the Twenty Fifteen WordPress theme for my blog
I bugged Takashi so much about the yellow color scheme it’d be pretty embarrassing if I didn’t use it here. I think it’s pretty sharp. And it makes me want to blog more! That’s a good theme design.
View ArticleArimaa: My current game obsession
Designed to be impossible for a Deep Blue to beat the best human player but simple enough for a four year old to learn. Playable with a chess board and pieces but it’s not a chess variant. It’s Arimaa....
View ArticleBoard Game Night
Next Friday I’ll be putting on a board game night for our neighbourhood youth group of kids around grades 4–7. Of course, I’ve started geeking out about this already. Over the past four or five months...
View ArticleLives of Jim: a Print and Play Board Game
The past few days I’ve been working on a print and play board game in the evenings called Lives of Jim. It’s part of a 10-day paper game jam I’m taking part in. You can find Lives of Jim on itch.io if...
View ArticleThe Peirce Quincuncial Projection
In the normal aspect, Peirce’s projection presents the Northern Hemisphere in a square; the Southern Hemisphere is split into four isosceles triangles symmetrically surrounding the first one, akin to...
View ArticleLiterary Theory: Transform and roll out!
The definition of “Authorial Intention” offered by Google (and the first result if you use “intent” as a keyword instead of “intention”) is from … THE TRANSFORMERS WIKI. The Internet is an amazing place.
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