Category Archives: community

The Game Design Studio Opens Its Garage Doors

August 3, 2009 – 5:26 pm

Let’s try a little thing!
I just put up the game design studio here at xenoglyph. It’s a forum specifically for real, grown-up critique.
I will be applying the standards of studio group critique in order to support the creation of better games and better artifacts according to the publication objectives of their creators.
The forum will be [...]

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Making It Be What You Want It To Be

May 8, 2008 – 12:05 pm

My final college project was a Medieval-style mystical tome containing an allegory using modern artificial life and intelligence as its alchemical ingredients. I bound the book using traditional European bookbinding techniques.
You’ll notice, if you order one of my publications, they’re gp0002 or gp0005 or some such number. Homunculand was the first glyphpress publication in a [...]

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Shangri-La: The Eightfold Path of Submission

March 12, 2008 – 6:49 pm

In memory of a Shock: game at Dreamation last, I offer this, the flag of Shangri-La, a totalitarian state based on government-controlled reincarnation.
(I can’t for the life of me find my notes. If you could let me know that you were in that game, it would be great. I gotta give credit for the awesome [...]

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Rob and I Get Gravely

March 12, 2008 – 6:45 pm

 Rob Bohl, podcaster of The Independent Insurgency, just put up (well, OK, a few days ago, but I forgot to announce then) Independent Insurgency #6. We had a fun time talking about stuff from about 2 AM until around 4 at Dreamation 2008. You can hear us get gravelier and gravelier over the course of [...]

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An Ode to Poor Arithmetic

February 10, 2008 – 5:41 pm

Hey, the Durham 3’s podcast #55, the one including me, is up on iTunes. Go give it a listen there or download it from their site directly! The show’s short, only 11 minutes or so, cuz we were tired and started late.
Thanks, guys. That was a fun time.

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Maybe You Want Not To Publish

February 8, 2008 – 8:24 pm

Dreamation is a game convention I go to every year in New Jersey. You probably know about it because you’re either one of the people I saw there or because you know me and know that I disappeared for four days a couple of weeks ago. It’s a pretty cool [...]

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Sharing Dreams

February 8, 2008 – 7:07 pm

Two weeks ago, I took off for Dreamation with my deeply excellent Western Massive fellows and a lot of stuff went down. I’m gonna give a quick rundown, then I’ll write more detailed posts because some of what we discussed deserves more than a passing mention.
So, I played two games of Shock: The first was [...]

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So Many Shock:s

January 19, 2008 – 12:17 pm

I just received this email from Vinny, one of the coördinators of Dreamation, a con I’m going to next week in New Jersey:
I have an interesting situation to report to you. So far, I have 4 people trying to get into [the first scheduled game of Shock:] and 8 people trying to get into [the [...]

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5-1=Three

January 17, 2008 – 6:26 pm

I’ve just spent the last two weeks exploring the Mid-Atantic states, spending time with friends and family in Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and Durham, NC. Thank you all for hosting me. I had a spectacular time. I am blessed with wonderful people. Thank you for your support, your indulgence, and your senses of humor.
A week [...]

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The Dead Lady of Clown Town

September 25, 2007 – 5:54 pm

… excerpted from The Rediscovery of Man, by Cordwainer Smith:
… Said little Joan… “I bring you life-with. It’s more than love. Love’s a hard, sad, dirty word, a cold word, an old word. It says too much and it promises too little. I bring you something much bigger than love. If you’re alive, you’re alive. [...]

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