thirteen pennies tumbling: Archive

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Some Things Bound to Change

I’ve been avoiding my little Tumblr blog for some time now. In a few weeks (not really sure when as it depends on when Apple flips a switch) all my artwork for this blog will disappear. Which means I will need to change the entire theme since all my art resides on iDisk, which Apple doesn’t want to support anymore. How hard would it be for them to set up legacy storage for us...

May 17th

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Play this Game: Dear Esther

Dear Esther is an “experience”, an art-game if you must, and relaxing into it is key to appreciating it. It really isn’t highbrow or lowbrow, the story is offered in bits and pieces, randomly read to you at specific trigger points. There are no actions. You just move through the environment, examining the scenery and searching for easter eggs (there are many ghosts). The cave...

May 17th

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Bastion is My Game of the Year!

I was right. I love Skyrim, and Kirby, and Sword & Sworcery, and Tiny Wings, and even appreciated returning to Inside a Star-Filled Sky, but when I sat down the other day to close the book on my 2011 journal, it was Bastion I thought about the most. Thank you Supergiant Games. I can’t wait to see what you do next!

Jan 4th

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Bastion is not My GOTY

I thought it might be. Definitely in the top five with Okamiden, Ilomilo and Portal 2. But then there came the Dovahkiin… The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Nov 21st

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 8th

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Sep 6th

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Bastion Just Might Be My GOTY

I originally wrote this for GoodGame Get!, but really liked how it turned out so I’m sharing it here as well. If you haven’t played this game, you should. GOTY contender, and now on PC! There are just too many games. It’s one of those good/bad things about the industry. Now that indie developers are creating masterpieces, how can we ever play them all? Writing about my...

Sep 1st

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It's Official! Fourth Layton Includes "London...

Just shared the following over at GoodGameGet!: Nintendo dropped a few bits of North American news over the weekend, including an October 17th release date for Professor Layton and the Last Specter (and something about a gold wiimote). But the big news in the press release was the announcement that the 100 hour Layton RPG “London Life” from Mother 3 creator Brownie Brown will be included. Yay!...

Aug 29th

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Aug 27th

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On Bastion, and X-Play's "Lame" Review →

Just posted some thoughts about video game narrative over at GGG! I guess I’m feeling a little extra protective of Bastion because I have enjoyed it so much, but I stand by my assertion that the story is very good, and worth exerting a little effort to understand. via goodgameget: But X-play’s review got me thinking: Are we, as gamers, untrained at parsing narrative alongside gameplay? Is...

Aug 18th

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Aug 9th

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I'm So Doing This

I love Zelda games. They represent what’s best about video games, and even though not always perfect I think it’s fair to say there’s no such thing as a bad Zelda game. My favorite is an unusual pick, but I stand by it with resolution. ”The Minish Cap”, to me, is everything that’s great about classic Zelda, packaged in a short and sweet adventure. I dig...

Aug 9th

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Aug 7th

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Aug 6th

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The Amazing Bastion Soundtrack

Video game soundtrack of the year contender! Finally available!

Aug 5th

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Awsum Cat Party

Lot’s more where this came from.

Aug 4th

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Jul 31st

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Jul 24th

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Jun 11th

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My Takeaway from the E3 Press Events

So I just finished watching the Nintendo E3 press conference and, now having seen all the big press events, find myself a little unimpressed. Despite the big announcements, only a few things caught my attention. I’m just not a Gears of War/Assassin’s Creed-type of gamer, so there wasn’t a lot for me, but a few things caught my eye… Love, love, love that Nintendo began...

Jun 7th

May 27th

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Glitch, My New Second Home

Late Sunday afternoon the voice of God rained down upon my head and the world around me ended. Sunday, not Saturday. This is not a rapture thing. I’m not talking about the God, just a God. And the world that ended is called Glitch. I’ve never been much for online multiplayer and haven’t spent any real time with an MMO, but I remember spotting Glitch about a year ago and...

May 26th

May 6th

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Watch

Colby and Aunt Sandy’s comic strip video.

May 1st

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Colby's Comic →

Colby and Aunt Sandy’s comic video.

May 1st

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Apr 19th

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Feb 25th

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Funniest Joke in the World

Something I found in the Wayback Machine… The Funniest Joke in the World: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, “My friend is dead! What can I do?”. The operator says “Calm down. I can help. First, let’s...

Feb 21st

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“In our favored version, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Hawking are...”

– Justice Antonin Scalia, Rapanos v. United States (via the intro to Jason Rohrer’s new game Inside a Star-filled Sky)

Feb 20th

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DS Dates (from Tiny Cartridge) →

Nintendo may be moving on to the 3DS, but I predict the the DS system will remain relevant for quite a while. Not unlike the PS2 after the PS3’s release. (link via GoodGameGet!)

Feb 8th