Little time for amusements this weekend, although I do want to publicly wish my wife a Happy Birthday today. Would that I could age as gracefully as she does.

Happy Birthday pretty lady.
Games and the Fear of Death
Why killing you might be the least scary thing a game can do.
Project Frontier
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
Philosophy of Moderation
The comments on most sites are a sewer of hate, because we're moderating with the wrong goals in mind.
The Gameplay is the Story
Some advice to game developers on how to stop ruining good stories with bad cutscenes.
T w e n t y S i d e d
Happy Birthday, Heather. Hope it is happy and a harbinger of the year ahead.
Love,
Sharon
I apologise for the following insult but
Why so serious?