I’m partway through writing the last story for this story competition that I have been doing. It’s a funny thing, but I have found myself trending slightly darker writing these stories. If I have ...

Best Games - Golly! Ghost! You have played lightgun shooting gallery games before, and you have played ticket redemption games, and you have played pinball games full of electromechanical toys. Yo...

Writing continues on these short contest stories. Having more time than two days is sort of nice, but it does introduce a small snag. During the ultra fast, two day contests, I don’t have time to ...

Part of doing these writing contests is you have to review and comment on all the other stories entered. As you might have guessed, this is significantly more difficult than just writing a new stor...

Once again, I am working on a short (under one thousand words) story for a contest. This one is a bit different though. Where the past ones I have done are all pretty fast two day affairs, this one...

Best Games - Gunstar Heroes Even before you press start on Gunstar Heroes, you know you are in for something special. There is a propulsive energy to the opening cinematic that sets the tone and t...

Early last year, I wrote a post here about a piece of digital art software that I thought was really neat. Pixel Composer was, and is, really neat, but after I wrote that post I didn’t use it again...

Over the weekend I participated in the first Calgary Arcade Jam. Our local game developer association has been assembling a few arcade cabinets for years. To get them kick started, we held a jam so...

I have had a small home server running here for years. I never asked that much of it. It hosts some files, a handful of movies and shows, some backups, etc. It just sits in the basement, and spins ...

Best Games - Star Wars : Dark Forces Before Rogue One or Andor, every Star Wars fan knew that it was former Imperial officer turned rebel mercenary, Kyle Katarn, who stole the Death Star plans. Mo...