This post is completely off topic in terms of video games but I believe it is important. I just wanted to remind everyone that the United States of America is not a democracy. It never was a democracy and never was intended to be a democracy. It is a constitutional republic that has a democratic [...]
January 31, 2008
Categories: WTF . Tags: Constitution, Constitutional Republic, Democracy, Republic, United States of America . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: No Comments
I don’t understand why it is so unappealing to lose. Losing tells you a lot more about yourself than winning does. Winning tells you that you won. I do think a little bit about why I won, what I did correctly to beat this other player but really it just tells me [...]
January 29, 2008
Categories: Dark Roof Design, Digital Games, Game Design, Non-Digital Games . Tags: fun, Games, Losing, Winning . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: No Comments
I find that I naturally enjoy making life into a game. I’ll give examples
I’ll go to someones house and if they have a bunch of objects on a table I will wait until they leave the room and I’ll re-arrange them to see if they notice. Or I’ll replace objects with other objects [...]
January 29, 2008
Categories: Game Design, WTF . Tags: A, Adding, Do, Everything, Feel, Game, I, Idea, Is, It., Just, Keep, Keywords?, Like, Me, No, To, Why . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: No Comments
Yes, Bullshit with a capital B.
Do you realize of all the elected government representatives there are only a handful of decent humans serving. You’d think that stand-up decent individuals are in high demand for this field. Or maybe they enter the political realm wanting to do good and the right thing and end [...]
January 28, 2008
Categories: WTF . Tags: no really we are screwed. I'm not joking... screwed..., We are screwed . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: 2 Comments
I set out to make 10 games and unfortunately I only made 5. I do have notes on the other 5 games I was thinking of making but I simply did not manage time and focus as well as I should have. I probably should have had more planning for this event. Next time should [...]
January 28, 2008
Categories: Dark Roof Design, Game Design, Non-Digital Games, WTF . Tags: alpha, Card Games, Challenge, Dark Roof Design, Marathon Game Design, Non-Digital Games . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: No Comments
I am going to be embarking on a quest to complete 10 different card games by Monday at 12am. Each game will have to be made with between 25 and 200 index cards, packaged with a completed rule-sheet/instructions and be 100% ready for play testing. I have other homework to do but I [...]
January 25, 2008
Categories: Dark Roof Design, Game Design, Non-Digital Games . Tags: Card Games, Challenge, Dark Roof Design, Game Design, Non-Digital . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: No Comments
Independent game development seems to be more and more attractive to me. I’d enjoy making choices on a more frequent basis. The challenge is going to difficult but fun as hell. Especially considering the other Dark Roof Designers. I’ve been listening to a lot of Frank Zappa recently, I found an [...]
January 20, 2008
Categories: Dark Roof Design, Digital Games, Game Design, Non-Digital Games . Tags: Dark Roof Design, DRD, Zappa . Author: ThomasJLKastner . Comments: 1 Comment