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RPGs Are Powered by Characters, Not Stats
I am super-excited about Dragon Age 2, Bioware’s latest RPG. One thing that always comes up when a new RPG is released however, is whether or not the gameplay has been “dumbed down.” The idea is that hardcore RPG-players want a high level of customization so they can fine-tune their character’s development, while the wider…
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Free Pancake Day at IHOP
We heard that IHOP was giving out free pancakes yesterday. Being grad students, a whole group of us went, got the free short stacks, and ordered little else. Delicious!
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The Jeff Lam Experience
A bunch of the musicians who play for our church let loose on some classic rock last night to benefit some of the community programs. We had a great time—here’s some phone camera photos of the amazingness.
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Type Frustrations Revisited
It seems that one of the only solid solutions for ensuring that the Google Fonts display properly is, much to my friends‘ delight, to “get a Mac.” Will Moyer has one of the only viable fixes, a 0.0000000001-degree rotation that fixes the issue in Webkit browsers like Chrome. For Firefox, we have to wait for…
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Type Frustrations
I would really like to be able to use the Google Fonts API on my website, but so far I haven’t seen very good results with how their fonts are rendered on Windows. I’ve been searching off and on for why this happens and have determined that at least on my system, the problem lies…
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Crytek Is Going to Be Just Fine
Remember Crysis? That mediocre first-person shooter with massive hardware requirements that turned “But can it run Crysis” into a phrase that still hasn’t left the geek culture consciousness? The studio behind the game, cleverly named “Crytek,” has been working on the sequel (scheduled for release in late March). An unfinished version has leaked online, prompting…
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Design in Science
I love design, but choosing medical science as a career means that it is never going to be more than a hobby for me. Even so, I try to learn what I can and experiment when I have the time. I follow a lot of talented designers whose inspiring work stands in stark contrast to…
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Creators Don’t Get to Choose Which Business Model Works
As it becomes harder and harder to attack the logic of the CwF+RtB business model, I’ve seen a lot more people reaching for a kind of compromise or balance option. It goes something like, “Okay, I see how this model can work, but it should be the creator’s choice whether or not they use it.”…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.