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Zafehouse.com is in the works
Considering the game’s enjoyed moderate success, and I plan to improve on it from time to time, I decided to grab zafehouse.com and seek out some hosting. I’m almost there, and I’ll let you know when...
View ArticleZafehouse is down
Argh. Zafehouse has been out of commission for at least two weeks now, so I can’t put it down to a simple outage with my free web host. Looks like I’ll have to cough up some cash for, you know, a...
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Resurrecting Zafehouse
See the hand? Yeah, it’s not quite back yet, but it is getting there. Got fed up with the free hosting I had, but I couldn’t really complain considering, well, I wasn’t paying anything. So, I purchased...
View ArticleBringing it together
Over the last couple of hours, I’ve been transferring Playwrite from WordPress.com to my server at DreamHost. Everything went pretty smoothly, as you can see! RIP playwrite.wordpress.com. No related...
View ArticleWordPress 2.7… that wasn’t so bad
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. Pretty painless affair, and I finally made a proper backup of the site! Which I probably should have done sooner. No related posts.
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BBC stung by Goatse. Again.
First, the London Olympics logo. Now, it’s a Favicon. Just goes to show that user-created content can be a double-edged sword. A hilariously sharp one in this case. A little off-topic, but far too...
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CrawlNotes 2.1 beta and an apps page!
I’ve just released a minor update to CrawlNotes, bringing it to v2.1. The biggest change is a bug fix to stop the program from crashing when rooms are deleted and refreshed. If you already have the...
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Don’t shit your pants
Zombies? Great Ones? No, this is true survival horror. Don’t Shit Your Pants [Kongregate] No related posts.
View ArticleA short break
Need to take a short break from Playwrite, Zafehouse and my other projects. Maybe a month or two. Just dealing with some personal issues right now and I need to focus on what’s important. See you on...
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Charles Dickens, football manager
What do you get when you combine one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era with Football Manager 2006? I’m glad you asked: He was always looking for ways to chide me, so I assaulted him with my...
View ArticleASCII Portal: What Rogue might have looked like if Glenn Wichman and Michael...
Here’s a ten-minute clip of Joe Larson’s text-based ASCII Portal – a “demake” of Valve’s dimension-sodomising FPS. I’m a sucker for ASCII games, as my previous exploits will reveal. So you can...
View ArticleZafehouse 2 and 4e Power Toolkit updates
Unfortunately I don’t have anything super special to show this week. Instead, I can give you short updates on Zafehouse 2 and the 4e Power Toolkit. Zafehouse 2: I’m slowly making progress on combat....
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Laugh at my gaming skillz at Up Up Down Down
Myself, and fellow designer Rob MacBride, are working together on a small project (well, blog) called Up Up Down Down – or Uudders. No, no cows are involved… not yet, anyway, but humorous videos of us...
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I can has Twitter?
I’ve finally succumbed to the Twitter. I held out for as long as I could, but it was too hard to ignore its ubiquity. My argument was, if I have a blog, website and Facebook, I should probably have...
View ArticleJaffe, Farbs and Stellmach in for Game Connect AP 2009
The GDAA has posted a program for this year’s Game Connect Asia Pacific, and the lineup isn’t half bad. Tim Stellmach of Vicarious Visions and Eat, Sleep, Play’s David Jaffe headline the conference,...
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Psycho Killer… the *scariest* game ever (but not for the reasons you think)
It’s the late 90s. Reeboks are all the rage, your Dad’s buying you pogs and for some reason, no one can stop dancing the Macarena. And, hiding away in the Amiga CD32‘s modest catalogue of games is...
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Signing off for the holidays
I’m heading off on a three-week trip to Egypt, Jordan, Dubai and Singapore tomorrow. As a result, you won’t see much action on this site, or on Zafehouse 2. I know, sad faces incoming. I’m going to...
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I write like…
I write likeH. P. Lovecraft I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Sweet. Check what famous writer you write like… [I Write Like…] No related posts.
View ArticleUpdates?
Very lazy of me, I must admit. One word: Work. Real life has kind of gobbled my time, just as I was making headway on Z2. It could be argued that I should be able to make time for the game, and that’s...
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