Secondtruth Blog Archives
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What’s a Technical Evangelist?
Since I announced my transition to Microsoft, I’ve gotten two specific questions a lot from people. The number one question was if I was relocating, which, I am not. Though I do hope to get around a lot this year, I am settled back into the Reading, PA area. The number two question I seem…
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Moral Choices Results
My survey on Moral Choices in gaming turned out very interesting and I wanted the results to be shared as widely as I could. I submitted a writeup of the results to the Journal of Games Criticism, and after peer review it was accepted! Please go check it out and read all the other interesting…
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Happy 2014
This morning I realized that I should dig out of my inbox. So I’m working on checking out things that I prioritized for myself to do last year, but never got around to. A lot of it – a lot of it – is playing new or pre-released betas of indie games that I’ve been…
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Happy Holidays!
I’m still writing this week at Tap-Repeatedly. In particular, I put together a long essay on Bioshock Infinite: http://tap-repeatedly.com/2013/12/bioshock-infinite-literacy/ My thesis here, since the article gets a bit rambly, is that there’s pretty good reasons for the violence in the game and why it needed to be a shooter. I actually really liked Infinite, but…
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My Moral Choice Survey
Thanks to a little bump from Reddit my survey got popular! I have almost enough results to call it good. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I would be very happy to have more responses at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GamesMoralChoices I will be shutting the survey down November 15. Thank you!
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Tabletop Games I Have Played: D&D Next
Lately for lack of a home-game proper, I’ve been playing the newest D&D Next playtest with some friends. To get the early stuff out of the way: I like it, generally. I’m running it with the Temple of Elemental Evil that it was released with which is not, strictly, a “proper” new module and relies…
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IF Comp 2013 Has Started
… and after playing approximately half the entries today, I don’t think I’m going to be writing longform reviews this year! This is mostly because I feel a little over-involved – I betaed on one game and I’m friends with a few participants. But I’d be lying if I also didn’t mention that I’m more…
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Now Playing: Heavy Rain
I made a post about Heavy Rain on Tap-Repeatedly today. I’ve had it for a while but felt inspired to finally play it now that Beyond: Two Souls is out and getting lukewarm reviews. I started Tweeting about this process, which you can also follow right here. I don’t really like Heavy Rain so far,…
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The Second Dungeon in Anodyne
Spoilers to follow, for the thing to which the title alludes. Yesterday I killed a man, and it was an accident. I approached him on the end of a pier. He looked friendly, so I pressed the button to talk. But the button to talk and the button to attack – to sweep, actually –…
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Games and Morality Research Survey
I’m doing some research about how people tackle moral choices in games. If you’re seeing this, it would be very helpful to me for you to fill out this survey, and pass it on to other gamers that you know. I plan to leave it up for at least a month. Signal boosts are appreciated.…
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