Board Gaming

Games we own. These are all available for game night with the North Tahoe Tabletop Board Game Meetup group....

Art Projects

I have worked on various art projects over the years. This is a collection of some of those projects....

Programming Projects

I have worked on various personal and professional computer programming projects over the years. This is a collection of...
Computers & Programming, Games

3D “Lunar” Lander Game!

I think I have an installable version of the 3D Lander game: https://www.rectorsquid.com/Lander/Lander.msi This is a Windows installer file that is digitally signed by me with my code signing certificate. If You encounter this Linage.msi file and installing it doesn’t show my name as the publisher, run away….

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Try The 3D Lander Game

You can download a copy here: https://www.rectorsquid.com/Lander/Lander.zip It’s not code-signed so you might get warnings. I’ll work on code-signing it later. You would need to connected a game controller your computer to have it work well.

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Board Game Scores are Like School Grades

I was listening to an interview on NPR with author Daniel Pink, who wrote an article for the Washington Post titled “Why Not Get Rid of Grades?” I apologize that the article is behind a paywall and the link is to a podcast. But you won’t need to see…

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Severance

I’ve been watching Severance on TV and I’ve got to say, it is a thought-provoking show. The problem is that it’s about 20% interesting and thought provoking, and about 80% artistic mystery. It’s just slow and it takes 43 minutes to convey about 10 minutes of story in…

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Salton Sea Game Review

Last night, I played Salton Sea for the second time. The first time was a year ago so the setup and review of the rules was lengthy. I was teaching an accomplished board game player so it only went badly for the first few rounds. Salton Sea is…

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What are “Points” in Board Games?

I have a collection of about 150 board games. There are many themes, mechanisms, and point styles in these games. This post is about the style or method of tracking points in games. What are “points?” They are the measurement of success in a game. In the game…

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