http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog Games, Food, and Tentacles Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:08:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The memorial service for Gary Gygax was today, an event I wish I could have attended. He passed away earlier this week and I have found myself more saddened by it than I would have expected. During the past few days there have been many tributes and expressions of what ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=17 I'm going to be part of "Slide Slam: Designing Video Games" at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMOCA) on the 28th of this month. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do except that I've got 15 minutes or so of stage time to talk about designing video ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=16 I've been plunging back into painting miniatures after a break of many years. It's been so long that I discovered much of my old supplies were no good anymore and naturally that's the kind of discovery I make right at the moment I need that particular paint, glue, or tool ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=15 If anybody in the Phoenix area wants to buy a big armoire, I'm selling one here. http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=14 Huzzah! After a long time of having a broken theme and struggling with a complicated photo database and gallery plugin that wasn't updated to the latest versions of WordPress, I gave up. And it's just as well. I could never get the plugin working properly and things seemed to vanish ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=13 I'm writing this post in the post-flush of victory. This weekend's project was getting a bunch of family photos online. Putting them in a place where everyone could see them without having to email them to everyone seemed like the best idea. Since I didn't want to try resurrecting my ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=8 "You're blogging?" you ask. "An ugly site with three posts in three months is blogging?" Fair enough. I'm not exactly blazing up the internet with with mountains of blog posts and a huge readership. In fact I think I'm the only readership. So it's an even fairer question -- why am ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=7 A long time ago I wrote the Conan Role-Playing Game. It was a pretty lightweight system -- I was trying to create something that was fast to play and captured some of the heroic story-telling of Robert E. Howard, instead of just being hack-and-slash. Mostly I was trying to have ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=6 So, the World Without Oil ARG is at an end. Perhaps you've heard of it though, I suspect, more likely not. You can check it out at www.worldwithoutoil.org. It was an interesting idea, but I really have to question if it was successful. (Not that I should complain. I'm probably ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=5 Ook! Ook! It only took 8 (or so) failed installs, the sudden panic as I remember what I've forgotten about HTML, scanning template designs, and a trip to the zoo -- but now there is officially a Cthulhu Monkey blog. I know it looks pretty much like crap, my categories are ... http://cthulhumonkey.com/blog/?p=4