I'm a writer living in Pittsburgh. This is where I put up short stories, code sketches and whatever else that results from puttering around in the study.
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The Inexpressible Terror of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Notes from the Frontline of a JRPG: “It Is With Great Regret…”
Such Bravery
A Sinister Reading of The Poky Little Puppy
Retro Action/Puzzle Game Generator
The Narrator
It’s not in the game
Groovy Squares
Over the face of the waters
Cliched WWII Game Generator
Arts and Letters Daily
Athanasius Kircher Society
Boing Boing
Brass Goggles
Butterflies and Wheels
Deisgn Melt Down
Dethroner
Ectoplasmosis
Gizmodo
Quarter To Three
Speculations
Table of Malcontents
The Inexpressible Terror of Good Housekeeping Magazine
The cover of this month’s Good Housekeeping magazine is absolutely terrifying.
From the tiny thumbnail they have online, unfortunately, you can’t really see the full horror of it. So I’ve taken the liberty of rendering the actual experience of seeing it in person. The resultant flash movie follows below.
Notes from the Frontline of a JRPG: “It Is With Great Regret…”
The following correspondence was found among the effects of Chalmond Carmon, Chief Alderman of Windyvale, upon the disposition of his estate. It appears he told no-one of the information contained therein.
After my husband’s funeral, I closed the gate and wandered back to our salt-rimed townhouse, through a throng of youngsters and their bitter songs of Jerusalem.
Retro Action/Puzzle Game Generator
This one’s for fans (or, indeed, haters) of retro-style action puzzle games, from weird French fare of the 1980s like Purple Saturn Day to modern nostalgia-burners like Geometry Wars and Every Extend Extra.
Sport games get the random generator treatment. No random pictures in this one, though, so it’s not a very good one. But maybe good for a titter.
Here is some 1960s-style psychedelic geometry, with a suitable soundtrack. The flash source code included.
These were the results of my first forays into proper Flash coding, instead of just Flash-the-animation-program.
This was supposed to be a medieval city plan generator, but it didn’t work out. With the application of pastel colors and The Girl From Ipa Nema, however, it became groovy. If you like, think of this as a bird’s eye view of 14th century Constantinople, with the bird on acid.
Random map generators produce realistic results using fractals. Rather than do the same, I wrote this one instead as a grid of cells, representing elevations, which react to the random movements of a wandering entity. Various aspects of this fellow’s behaviour and the cellular rules can be tweaked, and the size of the map changed.
The Japanese RPG sausage factory might amuse, but the West has it’s own genre cliches. Though not as fleshed out as its eastern counterpart, maybe the WWII first-person shooter generator will be good for a couple of laughs.
© Rob Beschizza 2007
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