Jim Raynor and John Marston were separated at birth

They have both been declared outlaws by the Feds, they both talk with a Western drawl, they are both quick on the trigger, and they’re never seen at the same time. The only difference I see is that Raynor is bigger in the arms and shoulders, probably because of hauling around that crazy heavy [...]

EPIC ROM CHECK FAIL

I can’t even explain it, except to say that using the defender ship to shoot qixes, or using Link to break arkanoid blocks is completely surreal. Go to http://www.farbs.org/games.html and download ROM CHECK FAIL. It will own you, but not for too long, which makes it a perfect bite-sized game for a break.
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Smashball Needs Publicity!

I just sent the following spam to a huge chunk of my address book. As if that weren’t enough, I’m posting it on my blog, and then twittering about it. Guerrilla marketing Web 2.0-style, what? As I mention below, “…this is a big leap for me. It is time to cash [...]

Vote for Smashball for 2008 Mod Of The Year!

Shameless plugging of my life’s work, as it were. Please head on over to ModDB’s Smashball page, create an account if you don’t have one, and VOTE!

When daring game design decisions work: Why Smashball ownzu

Hot damn, Smashball is now in public beta. What are you waiting for? Go download Smashball while you read this!
This last weekend, I built a small web farm on AWS. Somewhere in my sysadmin binge this weekend it occured to me that there was no document written for gamers about Smashball, describing [...]