I had missed this couple-days-old news that John Wick was joining Chaosium! Excellent! https://www.chaosium.com
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
I’ve been waiting for a good successor to Aliens vs Predator for a long time, and since I loved playing as the Alien, this new Darkborn game almost looked like it! But, sadly: no wall crawling š https://www.ign.com
The past 2 days we had Terminal City Tabletop Convention here and I played 3 RPG games! It had been a long time since I played instead of GMing and itās nice to just have to show up and not prepare anything š
Iām not sure what āboutique hotelā means but Iām pretty sure it means ābadly designedā.
Of course I barely arrived at the airport that I already run into game dev people I know, and spot a couple others I follow on Twitter… itās GDC time! š
Next week is GDC so, just like last year, I’ll be happy to have 30min meetings with whoever wants to know about Frostbite, EA Vancouver, engine programming, cinematics, cameras, or whatever else you think I’m vaguely qualified to talk about! Note that, for the first time, Frostbite will actually have recruiters on site, too!
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s 30
For the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had some cautiously optimistic words for us:
Against the backdrop of news stories about how the web is misused, itās understandable that many people feel afraid and unsure if the web is really a force for good. But given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it canāt be changed for the better in the next 30. If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web.
The IndieWeb movement, members of the Fediverse (like Mastodon), hybrid things like Micro.blog, and the increasingly numerous articles telling you to ditch Facebook and Google, own personal websites again, rediscover RSS feeds… they’re all trying to, indeed, push the web to be “better” in some way or another. Let’s hope something sticks.
Iāve been ignoring Gutentags issues and PRs for a couple months (my OSS free time was consumed by other projects) but I think Iām now mostly caught up! Sorry for people who waited a long time. I have to get better at managing my time š
It’s pretty funny and sad to me that Neovim was started (in part) to add asynchronous jobs to Vim, and then Vim8 added that too, and now it’s Neovimās implementation that is giving me the most problems as a plugin author.
The GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 Kickstarter is live! And apparently it’s important for GURPS players! More here: https://dr-kromm.livejournal.com