Tag: Group Writing

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Kerbal Space Program is a computer game in which the player can build spacecraft, aircraft, and spaceplanes to their own design and use them on missions, both robotic and with crews, to explore the planetary system of the star Kerbol. The space program is conducted on behalf of the Kerbals, inhabitants of planet Kerbin, and […]

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In Young Life we routinely sent kids to the electric chair. It was called the Hot Seat. A chair hooked up a 6 volt battery. Some games were in a quiz format with kids getting zapped for a wrong answer. Sometimes the shock came as a surprise at the end of a skit for a […]

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The Final Fantasy series is a highly successful and influential Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) franchise that’s been around for almost 30 years. It’s said that the title came from the assumption that it would be the last game developed by SquareSoft, which was at the time on the verge of bankruptcy. The success of the […]

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 “Cicada Days” was an article I proposed for a children’s magazine in the early 2000′s. An editor worked on it with me, but the magazine ultimately turned it down. The story fits the games theme, albeit with low-key, simple writing for a younger audience. (The magazine did end up buying a subsequent piece that was more suitable for their […]

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These are trends I’ve observed over the decades: 1. Reduced conflict between players. In the beginning was Risk. It said, “Global Domination” right on the box. The game was simple — players attacked each other until one player picked up the board and flung it across the room. As if that wasn’t evil enough, someone […]

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“What am I, Rain Man?” “Sir?” asked the dealer. Preview Open

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There are some very skilled card players in my family. I am not one of them. This has been a terrible cross to bear; a girl plagued with such a gobsmacking lack of both skill and luck should not also have been endowed with a competitive streak and a loathing for losing. Poker, Pitch, Gin, […]

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Andy Looney said that Homeworlds is “the True Space Chess.” He’s right in more than one way: his immediate point was that it’s space chess, since it has a light space battle theme unlike popular sci-fi depictions of board games that keep the chesslike theme of “ancient battle on a grid.” Homeworlds is also space […]

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  I confess, when it comes to the difficulty of the computer games I’ve played, I’ve typically been a bit of a wuss. When the game menu allows you the choice of difficulty settings I usually choose “Easy,” maybe “Normal.” But I’ve never tried playing a whole game on “Hard” or “Hell” or whatever other […]

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College football, that is. Nine months after a national champion was crowned, with new student-athletes recruited in the interim and coaching changes galore, the 2015 college football season is finally upon us. Fans of the sport, filled with the optimism of a new season, will watch their teams take the field, rooting for them as […]

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After college and before embarking on my current job I spent time designing board games with the intent to sell them. Here are some lessons I learned from that process: 1) People play games for different reasons. Some are less concerned with winning than they are with having fun, and some people, if you tell […]

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Like pretty much every Catholic child in Perth in a certain era, I was born at St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, in 1965. My parents were “Eastern Staters” (having come from Victoria in 1962), but I was one of the Perth minority – born and raised. It’s a small town – my Mum once […]

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I have more than once mentioned here on Ricochet that I am very fond of Cambridge, England. If I was told that I only had one year to live, I would quit my job, sell my house, and move to Cambridge to live out my final year. Preview Open

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I was six years old, the first time I saw the French Quarter. En route to to see our cousins in Pensacola, we stayed for one night in New Orleans – – ostensibly, because it was a good stopping point on our drive from Tulsa – – but primarily, I think, because of my father’s […]

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In just a few weeks, Pittsburgh’s Downtown Macy’s will join the list of Things That Aren’t There Anymore. Of course, Macy’s was already a stand-in for Kaufmann’s, a regional department store chain that isn’t there anymore. The Kaufmann’s clock is still there. That’s where Pittsburghers like to meet. “Meet me under the Kaufmann’s clock,” we […]

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I wrote this in the summer of 2006 for our neighborhood newsletter. It’s a bookend for Merina’s piece that came out at the beginning of the month.  Early on the Sunday morning of July 30, our two girls and I will be climbing into an overloaded Subaru with a pair of disgruntled cats. We’ll be making the long […]

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I have a conflicted relationship with Seattle. Like Boeing, Nordstrom, REI, Starbucks, and Henri the Existential Cat, I was born here. While I love the city I was born into, I often hate what it has become. We have outrageous politicians, a $15 minimum wage law, horrible traffic, a massive boondoggle-of-a-tunnel project, a plastic bag […]

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