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Auctions as a Game Balancing Tool:Battletech players should be well aware of auctions in the Battletech universe - the Clans call it the Batchall. As the article describes, actions and board gaming have a long history together.
Auctions are a widely used in the board games as an in-game mechanic or as a meta game. Read this if you want to cross train or at least avoid being a vidiot
Game design is no place for “perfectionism”
No game can be perfect–it depends so much on the audience, the individual player, the mood, the group (if played by a group), even the timing of creation and publication.
History of Social Games
[Tip-O-Hat 2 The Ludologist]
My life is complete: Mario performs 'Don't Stop Me Now':
Is there a term to describe those Super Mario World levels that play themselves and sometimes make music as a result? I'm sure there is, but I don't know it. 'Automatic Mario' doesn't count, because that sounds silly. At any rate, you surely know what I'm referring to.
The good folks at GoNintendo have stumbled upon what has to be the greatest of them all -- it's Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' as played by four different Mario levels running simultaneously. The more I type, the longer it will take for you to watch it, so I'm going to cease talking.
From ORIGINS 2009 April 2008Dear Fellow Game Enthusiast:
This game came from a collection of an old friend and long time associate Ron Bashian. Ron had to give up his games for health reasons and I promised him I would find them good homes. If you now own this game, send Ron a post card or letter letting him know you now have one of his games and that you will be enjoying it, giving it a good home and a well cared for, continued life as they were meant to be. Don't send sympathy, he's a positive kind of guy!
[signed - Paul Meyer/Crazy Egor]
My life has been a bit complicated recently and blogging has not been my first concern, but things may soon go back to something resembling normal. I just heard back from Chessex about my custom dice though, and wanted to show the pictures!
I am rather partial to the orange swirl (vortex orange) myself. Now I need to figure out how many to order. Decisions, decisions!
I wrote about the custom dice our local Battletech group recently had made up. Something like this would be great, but I need to fit text for the whole blog URL onto one face of a die, which might be tricky. I am in contact with Joseph at Chessex to try to work out the details. Featured below is the graphic I came up with:
I learned a new word!ambsace (AYM-zays) noun, also amesace[found on A.Word.A.Day *** Image ToyVault.com]1. The double ace, the lowest throw of the dice with one spot showing uppermost on both dice.
2. The smallest amount of anything.
3. Bad luck.
[From Middle English ambes as, from Old French, from Latin ambas (both) + as (aces).]
"O noble, prudent folk in happier case!
Your dice-box doth not tumble out ambsace ..."
Geoffrey Chaucer; The Man of Law's Tale; The Canterbury Tales; 1380.
As much as I like miniature figures and painting, I think it's important to remember that my hobby owes a lot to other hobbies. This is why I try to support more than just the narrow aspects of Battletech miniatures the hobby I am interested in.
Hiawatha Hobbies, the model train store closest to my home, is now open in it's new location at 2026 Silvernail Road, Waukesha, WI 53072. I visited today; the new store is nicely organized and much more visible than the old location, which ought to help them out. Train shops like this are a great resource for tools, paints, flocking, scenery, and tips on how to get tricky jobs done.
If you like working with miniatures as much as I do, then you can probably find something the train hobbyists use that will interest you too. Take time to find a visit a store like this. You might learn something new.
[from Geekologie]
Could you eat a cake like this? It just looks too good to cut up (but they do).
They recommend a drill press, which is not something I count among my tools, but I bet I could make do with a hand held power drill and some patience. Maybe I'll try it for myself.
Want to know what happens when your blog gets "Noted"? The chart to the right is my web traffic from December 12th through the 31st (via StatCounter). It's actually a bit frightening.[Found on Stomp Tokyo]
Though I admittedly have little knowledge in the genre of Japanese sci-fi, I do know one thing: when a UFO crashes into the ocean near Tokyo, chances are pretty good that an attack on the city by a giant monster is inherent. Call it intuition.
How about a MMORPG, Exteel. I haven't played it, by IO9 gave it a nice review. Apparently it's more combat than RPG.---[And this, from TVtropes]
Who needs an Abrams tank when you can have a 100-foot man-shaped robot with a glowing sword and a fist that fires off like a missile? There's no argument - fighting robots are just infinitely cooler than ordinary vehicles. Whatever their shape, though, they are all known as "mecha". The "mecha", or "giant robot", concept is ubiquitous in Japanese pop culture, and is more than adequately represented in anime. Despite the name, the robots need not actually be "giant" - some are merely human-sized, and some even smaller. They range from the boomers and hardsuits of Bubblegum Crisis, to the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann big enough to use galaxies as shuriken (no, really!).
Giant Robots Smashing into other Robots.
Coincidence or Copycat? What is the difference between a Giant Robot and a Big Giant Robot anyway? I suppose there is room enough on the internet for the two of us. ;-)
[from Mecha Image of the Day - here]
