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Elite is 31337

September 13, 2004, 9:00 pm

I was feeling borednostalgic bored at work today so I spent some time browsing around the int0rw3b. As luck would have it, the first site I surfed to, The WikiPedia , had some interesting stuff in it....

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H2G2

February 10, 2005, 9:00 pm

Was browsing XYZZY News and came across a link to an online re-creation of the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game , done in Flash. From what I can tell, it is completely faithful...

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Spore

May 22, 2005, 5:00 pm

A couple of days ago I came across the teaser site for Spore, the next game by Will Wright, the fella who brought us Sim City.In Spore, you are responsible for evolving the life on your planet, from...

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Playing With(in) the Rules

June 3, 2005, 4:58 pm

In Twisty Little Passages, Montfort distinguishes between three types of story or narrative: Diegetic, Hypodiegetic, and Extradiegetic (from diegesis). The 1001 Arabian Nights is useful for describing...

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Kingdom

October 4, 2005, 5:33 pm

This is the first draft of my version of one of the first video games I ever played. Variously called “Kingdom” or “Hammurabi”, it is a simple economic game. I first played it in the Impressions 5...

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I Don't Have Time for This

April 7, 2006, 4:21 am

The diabolical Bock– who just launched a new version of his website – recently introduced me to a wonderful new game: Travian.Travian is a free, browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG),...

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Something Beautiful for the Holidays

December 24, 2006, 5:27 am

I recently visited Orisinal for the first time in a long while. He has posted a new, winter-themed game called Winterbells which is just challenging enough to keep the attention-span deficient quiet...

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RIP, Gary Gygax

March 4, 2008, 5:53 pm

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away today at the age of 69. I and millions of other geeks are in mourning. It is safe to say that he helped make me the geek I am today. Dungeons...

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