Gamers tend to have strong feelings about motion controls. Part of this is due to hardware limitations that make most motion controls less precise than button presses. Other times, it’s because it turns out that imagining yourself, say, throwing a Poké ball in the world of Pokémon, is a very…
Top 10 lists are fun to write. It’s always fun to tell other people your opinions about stuff that doesn’t really matter, and top-anything lists mean that you get to review all the best experiences you had, compare happiness to happiness, and decide which was better. Remembering happiness is a…
I’ve learned a lot about creative work from video games: puzzle-making, entertainment design principles, and plot construction. But video games have also taught me about other important things in my life. Namely, about myself. And what have I learned? Well…
Books YA/MG fiction The Opposite of Hallelujah (***** – loved) Adult fiction Zoo City (***** – loved) Beauty and the Werewolf (*** – enjoyed) Broken Harbour (***** – loved) Adult non-fiction Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (*** – enjoyed) Movies Wreck-It Ralph (**** – liked) In…
But first, happy belated birthday, Juliana, and happy early birthday, Tory! And many more for both of you! Item one: when I was a kid, we sometimes had a badminton net strung up at our cottage.
The “lies” part is that these are micro-reviews, because my ability to summarize has got sloppy: I may (gasp!) go into four sentences at times.