Category Archives: making stuff

Ashlesan Warrior sculpture

January 16, 2010 – 4:44 pm

I’ve been working on this guy quite a bit. Materials have been about $25. No special tools, but I made some sculpting tools out of music wire and dowels. More pics below the cut!

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Carrie

December 29, 2009 – 3:01 pm

(note that this and subsequent pictures can be clicked to see a lovely embiggening process.)

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Choose Your Adventure! [Oo! Let's Make a Game!]

December 28, 2009 – 1:44 pm

51:04 long & 49 MB big In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) discuss major changes to the game, spend a lot of time with feedback, and discuss how Jewish someone has to be in England. We took some during-the-show notes. If [...]

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The Polar Piglets of the Boreal Geyland of Ashlesa

December 12, 2009 – 11:49 am

In the northernmost geyland of Ashlesa live the Polar Piglets. The 35 cm long, waddling creatures are highly social in nature, spending as much time as possible in close proximity to several other individuals. They mineral-rich water flowing up from below forms large, bulging rocks wherever vents open to the surface. These rocks are filled [...]

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Life Drawing

December 11, 2009 – 1:31 pm

Comcast has now switched to all-digital channels. We do not wish to pay for it. That means I get to draw and do other stuff that’s way more fun than watching the stupid TV. Above is a life drawing of a raccoon skull. I’m not wholly happy with it and expect to do more drawings [...]

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An introduction to Ashlesa

December 11, 2009 – 2:22 am

When humans first orbited Ashlesa 5.2 (the second moon in orbit around the fifth “planet” — itself a brown dwarf — orbiting the star Ashlesa) , they were struck by its geology. A single vast plain, desert-like, with the occasional oasis dotting the landscape, broken only by chains of geysers, some thousands of miles across. [...]

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[Oo! Let's Make a Game!] Episode 8: Building People!

November 19, 2009 – 12:32 am

54:46 long & 50.2 MB big In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) finish developing the character-based situation for the game they’re designing — before your very ears! — then move on to discussing some ways that characters can be pushed to [...]

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Flat One-er With No Bobble

November 5, 2009 – 7:31 pm

If you play with Lego, I bet you do this, too! It’s one of the things I mourn, actually: Peeron and Bricklink are scaring away all the internal descriptions of pieces.

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Oo! Let’s Make a Game! Episode 7: Life During Wartime

November 3, 2009 – 7:22 pm

58:34 long & 56.2 MB big In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) try out a new way of designing and recording. The show will be going biweekly and Joshua & Rob are going to start doing some design before recording, then [...]

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OLMAG Episode 6: How to Start a War!

October 10, 2009 – 4:44 pm

(EDIT: I’ve changed the header image that was originally on this post because it was NSFW. For posterity, in case someone is curious, you can find the original image here. Edit: No, Rob. That wasn’t the real image. That was for a completely… different project.) 52:24 long & 50.3 MB big In this episode, Robert [...]

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