Classic Video Games… In Your Browser

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 30, 2015

This is old news, but I’m not sure I mentioned it yet. Anyway, apparently some of these can also be played inside of a tweet now, too. So… cool. As if you really needed something else to nuke your free time in your browser! MS-DOS Games. Arcade games. Classic consoles. If you are old enough, you […]

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OUYA Is For Sale

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 29, 2015

This does not bode well for the first “microconsole” : Gaming startup OUYA needs to find a buyer quickly This will come as a surprise to almost nobody. The crowdfunding campaign was stellar, the concept sounded awesome, the excitement was trend-setting, the actual hardware was… well, problematic and less than amazing, but still cool. I […]

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Fictional Firearms: Ten Pet Peeves

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 28, 2015

I finally got around to reading Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International, the first of his best-selling series. I enjoyed it a great deal, and I understand the series gets significantly better from there. (Hey, Jim Butcher’s first couple of Dresden novels were a little on the rough side, too).  The story doesn’t shy away from some […]

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A Tale of Two RPG Reviews

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 27, 2015

I am still not far enough to really comment, *BUT* I find the difference between two reviews by hardcore, old-school sites pretty intriguing for Pillars of Eternity: RPGWatch gives it a 4/5. Two other reviewers chime in and offer commentary at the end, apparently holding a more positive review of the game. But while David “Corwin” […]

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Dungeon Crawling: Ten Ways It Is More Than “Hack & Slash”

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 24, 2015

I saw an article not long ago that was equating “Dungeon Crawlers” to more action-heavy, monster-bashing RPGs. It’s what we used to call “hack & slash.” The article maintained that this was the essence of old-school D&D. I disagree. Vehemently. I have no doubt that some people played D&D that way back in the day. […]

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The Big Steam Roguelike Sale

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 23, 2015

I don’t know whether to be proud or embarrassed over how many of these are in my library right now. Not all from Steam – I have some through GOG.com, some through Desura, and at least one stand-alone direct from the developer. Whatever… now, if you ask how many I’ve really, earnestly played to a […]

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Five Questions New Indie Game Developers Should Ask Themselves

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 22, 2015

A recent survey found that most authors make less than minimum wage. Must game developers do, too, although I’ve arrived at that conclusion purely through anecdotal evidence. Seriously, on a per-hour basis, I’d do far better flipping burgers at McDonalds. Daniel Cook wrote not too long ago about Minimum Sustainable Success in the games industry. […]

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How does it feel to get my butt kicked by an 11-year old girl?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 21, 2015

How does it feel to get my butt kicked by an 11-year-old girl? Hmmm… Not gonna lie. It doesn’t feel awesome. Although I have known for a while that she’s better than me. I assumed (correctly?) that the leaderboards were platform-specific, and also assumed (incorrectly?) that this terror of less than a dozen years was playing on […]

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Releasing a Game Has Grown Much Harder?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 20, 2015

According to Cliff Harris, releasing an indie game in 2015 (in this case, Gratuitous Space Battles 2) is much harder in 2015 than it was only two years ago. Or, as he says it: “Of more interest will be what I’m learning about releasing a game in 2015 vs one in 2013. Holy f**k, its […]

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Teasing Us From a Long, Long, Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 17, 2015

Well. I wanna be skeptical. I want to be unbiased. I’ve been burned. We all have. Many times. But… but…. Okay, there’s a very slim chance that maybe, MAYBE you may be here and not know what I’m talking about. This was just released:   I think anything I’m about to say is just joining […]

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Indie Books, and Book Length

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 16, 2015

I’m still a newbie to the author world. It’s been exciting to learn new stuff, and of course to have my stories published and actually make money at it. Not a lot of money, especially for the time put in, but I feel like I’m still in training. I probably always will be, if my […]

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And a content-free post!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 15, 2015

I was starting a blog post last night when I got the call (around midnight), and had to rush into work. Until about 4:30 AM. Went home, slept, showered, and came back into work. So… although I have about five half-written blog posts right now, none are ready to go up. So today we’ll just […]

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1.21 GIGAWATTS!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 14, 2015

A friend ordered me a book for my birthday. Unfortunately, it hadn’t arrived on time, but they’d given her a PDF of the book in the meantime. So to tide me over until the hard-copy’s arrival, she gave me a thumb drive with the PDF on it. “Do you want the thumb drive back?” “No, it’s […]

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Geek, Game Developer, Author, Dancer (!!!)…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 13, 2015

When I was a kid, I dreaded growing up. As far as I could tell, once I grew up and had to become a responsible adult, life would be boring. Yeah. About that. Not so much. If anything, the opposite. Granted, some of the things which I consider kind of fun now would have seemed a […]

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Why I love science fiction

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 10, 2015

I have never known the moon upon which man has never set foot. I realize that most of my audience here is in the same boat. In my case, technically I predate the Apollo 11 moon landing by just a few weeks. It changed in my lifetime, although I was far too young to recognize […]

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RPG Design: Leveling Up the Game

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 9, 2015

I’m an overachiever. I want bonus XP (eXperience Points). I want to hit the optional sub-quests and pick up the extra-cool Butt-Kicking Boots of Bophram which will be a nice boon to my butt-kicking for at least three more levels. Which I’ll go through a little earlier than “average” because, hey, I like bonus XP […]

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