You Mean Gabriel Knight Wasn’t Completely Accurate?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 2, 2011

My interest in visiting New Orleans probably originated with Anne Rice back in the late 80s. But sometime in the early-ish 90s, I played Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, which gave me another shot in the arm to some day visit the historic location. Some movies, stories, and playing an RPG set in Crescent […]

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Why Am I Still Working at 3 AM on a Game?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on January 27, 2011

I used to stay up all hours of the night playing games. Now I stay up all hours of the night making them. Okay, I guess that’s not entirely true. I’ve been making games for almost as long as I’ve been playing them.  Even back to the point where I was trying to squeak something […]

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Then and Now…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on January 12, 2011

Some things change. Other things… not so much. Then: Arguments would get heated over Colecovision vs. Intellivision vs. Atari Now: Arguments will get heated over XBox 360 vs. Playstation 3 vs. Wii. Then: We’d keep pumping quarters into a machine for extended play. Now: We keep pumping digital dollars for DLC for extended play. Then: […]

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The Problem with Getting Too Many Games In One Month…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 28, 2010

What? I thought I was playing AaaAaaAaaaaAAAAaaA! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity! Oops.

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A Very Zombie Holiday

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 22, 2010

An instructional video for enjoying the holiday festivities during a zombie apocalypse…

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Happy Seventeenth Birthday Doom!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 10, 2010

On this day, in 1993,  Doom was released to the public as a shareware release. It was uploaded to the Software Creations BBS, and on an FTP site popular for its repository of shareware games. Why, oh, why, did it have to be during the study week before final exams at my school? 🙂 My […]

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I Guess It Could Get Worse

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 1, 2010

Out of sheer morbid curiosity, on two separate occasions I have tried to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. I have yet to succeed. I don’t think I’ll ever be up for a third try. But then, I remember as a child watching it air “live” on its single performance, I was incredibly disappointed and […]

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The Tale of the Double Crossbow

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 18, 2010

In the 1985 movie Ladyhawke, Captain Navarre (played by Rutger Hauer) had a nifty little weapon that was effectively two crossbows connected together – a double crossbow. I don’t think any such thing ever existed, historically, and I doubted its effectiveness.  Now, I’ve fired a double-barreled rifle (with two triggers, even) – and even a […]

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What of the Gaming Journalists?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 19, 2010

So once again, I’m gonna talk about something I know little about. That rarely stops me, anyway. Today’s topic: Games Journalism. Once upon a time, back when it was helmed by Johnny Wilson, I was a big fan of Computer Gaming World. As a poor newlywed college student in a tiny apartment, I had little […]

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Halloween Creepiness: A Ghostly Scream…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 14, 2010

My wife is now a storyteller tour guide for Ghost Tours. She’s been a storyteller for years, partly specializing the cool creepy ghost stories that get her a lot of gigs in October. That being said, she’s never really had a supernatural encounter – she just loves the kinds of stories that make you shiver. […]

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Real Heroism

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 13, 2010

I’m a sucker for happy endings. It’s easy to become cynical with all the strife and violence taking place in the world today. But today the story, pictures, and videos of the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile makes me proud to be a human being. And as a side note – that whole […]

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Getting Over Gaming Guilt

Posted by Rampant Coyote on September 30, 2010

Many years ago, listening to the radio on my commute to my day job at the video game studio,  I heard a report on the radio about how the average American watches over 25 hours of television a week. I was instantly seized upon by a feeling of some kind of moral superiority. Why, I […]

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Behind the Mask

Posted by Rampant Coyote on September 15, 2010

While I may lose a few geek points by this admission, I was never a huge comic book fan. There were a couple of titles I collected (particularly those written by Chris Claremont), and a few others I followed as I could afford them or read friends’ copies. I’ve gotten into passionate arguments over Marvel […]

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Steam Whine

Posted by Rampant Coyote on September 13, 2010

You know what would make Steam a whole lot better? If it wasn’t actually there. I don’t normally leave Steam running on my machine in the background. And I’ve found, recently, that I’ve got a little bit of reluctance to run a game on Steam simply because of the overhead involved in it loading Steam, […]

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Freaky Discovery of the Weekend – and Using Urban Mythology as Game Plots

Posted by Rampant Coyote on September 12, 2010

Okay, I thought I was having my leg pulled actually following up on what sounded like a freaky-deaky conspiracy theory, but after being told that the signature line on all my checks wasn’t actually a line at all here in the U.S., I decided to play the sucker and go ahead and inspect the line […]

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Orcs and Elves are Mainstream Now?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 31, 2010

It’s kinda weird. Back when I was a young’un playing Dungeons & Dragons, elves were Santa’s helpers, and almost nobody outside of the geek set had a clue what we meant when we talked about orcs. Nowadays, principally due to the the success of the Lord of the Rings movies and World of Warcraft, elves […]

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