The lights go down. It’s worse than you can imagine out here in California in The Games Industry, it’s time for the Real Awards show for some of the people in the audience. The stage is cleared of speakers, independent or otherwise. The crowd falls completely silent. The teleprompter kicks into high gear: it’s not…
Portal Tomb Kickstarter
Hey everybody, it’s [location]’s favorite [professional], Karin Malady! You might know me from roles I’ve played, like The Knife that Cuts Image From Form, The Augur of Want, The Daughter of Kaos and Mystery, and The Anathema Logos. I’m here to tell you about [thing you’re going to spend money on]! As covered in my…
3/22 5:00 PM (GDC #3)
I can feel my brain turn and fall into some kind of slump standing in the line to the Awards Show after a making a loop around all three convention buildings to find out where the hell I’m supposed to go. Already clear to me is the size and scope of this place, the people…
ROAD TO GDC 2
We spent a good chunk of the first day on the road into California, passing the outer rim of Edwards Airforce base traffic in the sky and into Coachella Valley’s nature preserve: a blister of gas stations and Marriott’s joined by sister car sales places for the on the go businessman. The Traveler is angry…
DEEP HELL @ GDC (HELP US FUND THE TRIP)
Hello Game Players. It’s happening: that thing we’ve always threatened you with. DEEP HELL will be attending GDC this year, in secret, or in brashness or bravery – this is not a joke! We DO need contributions to help cover the cost of travel and hotel fair – things like gas, and keeping ourselves alive…
NINE OUT OF TEN
We all demise the lament of the Movie Tie-In game in videogames; here was a golden age of Computer Software. Scrappy tie-ins, real, true videogames made by the kind of teams that would have to suffer in indignity making corporate shovelware until they got their chance to make The Mighty Thor on the Gameboy Advanced,…
MY CITY, MY RULES
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AND THEN THE SEAGULLS FOUND ME
Back in late September of last year, there was about two weeks where the hospitality industry I worked in faced a massive coffee shortage. There was just simply no way to get the craft espresso pods for those espresso machines that take all of the art and artifice out of making coffee, and restaurants all…
THE GARDEN OF MADNESS AND WALL SCROLLS
It’s here. It’s finally here. first written as in the space of “One Annual Event”
SNOWBLIND
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