I’ve done a number of contests through the NYC Midnight organization, including short stories and short scripts. Just over an hour ago (midnight NYC time, not coincidentally) we received the assignments for their latest contest: 100-word microfiction stories that are to be completed in twenty-four hours. What the NYC crew does is randomly places the…
A murder was committed in a local manor and a group of psychics has opted to visit the residence on Halloween to make contact with the restless spirit of the deceased in order to divine who killed him where and with what weapon.Let the seance begin… So goes the (here less eloquent) setting opener for…
In Spy Alley, everyone is a randomly determined spy working for one of six countries. Each player knows who they are and what country they work for, but it’s a secret from others. As you roll the die to move your character around the board, you’re trying to buy/collect your own password, disguise, code book…
My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s hacked around with “a start-to-finish path with spaces that have effects”-style board games in the past that were clearly thought up and filled in on the fly–but this…
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo seems to be pretty divisive. Either you like it or you don’t. After making a solid go of it and getting pretty deep into the book, I ended up being in the latter category, just from Larsson’s style, which didn’t jibe with me enough that it finally bumped me…
In Labyrinth, each player is a wizard seeking secret treasures in a maze where the hallways and walls are always shifting. The game board is designed with square maze pieces that are adhered to create an open grid pattern where loose modular maze tiles are randomly placed. Some of those tiles (both adhered and loose)…
Tonight’s games were a carbon copy of those played back on Isolation Day 19, and I don’t have much to add beyond a couple of things I noticed: Sushi Go! continues to be a game I really enjoy. Tonight, our daughter was racking up the points with her Dumpling cards. The points for them jump…
When I went to get the snow tires swapped out at the dealership today, I was told that there were already a few people waiting inside, and so for the sixty to ninety minutes it would take to do the swap, it would be best if I… well… went somewhere/anywhere else, is what the maintenance…
I’ve occasionally wondered if there are apps to help create stop motion video. Today it hit me again, and this time, rather than allowing my brain to get distracted with something else (as happens an embarrassingly huge amount of the time), I actually sought out such a beastie. Not surprisingly, there were quite a number…
Qwirkle is a game of creating lines of like colours or shapes but not both. Each player gets six small tiles with a coloured shape on it: One of a combination of six shapes and six colours. On every turn, the players will seek out the best placement for as many of their tiles as…