I played a game last night of Distilled by Dave Beck and Paverson Games. Distilled is a game where players run distilleries making spirits (alcohol, not ghosts). This first play of the game was entertaining, even with two of us making some big mistakes. Making mistakes on the first play of a game…
Continue readingDisclaimer: I wrote this review and then submitted it to ChatGPT to see how it would write the review. This is the ChatGPT text; It’s a little flowery, in my opinion. Pipeline, a captivating creation by Capstone Games, stands proudly on the gaming shelf alongside CO2: Second Chance…
Continue readingI wrote some code to simulate creatures in an environment. It didn’t work because it was not well thought-out. I wanted to jot down some thoughts about it to help me do a better design job on version 2. My creature simulator is a Mac app written in…
Continue readingAge of Comics: The Golden Age is a medium weight board games that lets players “print comics” to gain fans, gain income, fulfill orders (to gain even more fans), and win at being the most successful publishing company at the game table. The game starts with each player…
Continue readingCities: Skylines 2 is about to come out. It has been available for preorder for a while now and I’m excited to get it. But it does have one flaw that most video toys have: The developers are trying to make it a game. I think that the…
Continue readingA few months ago, I bought a new mountain bike. I ordered a Trek X-Caliber 8 from the manufacturer and they sent it to a nearby bike shop for final assembly. Now that I’ve ridden it for over one hundred miles (and maybe as much as 200), it…
Continue readingMy kayaking/hiking/biking trips log page uses Google Maps to show a log of “all” trips I’ve taken on foot, biking, or kayaking. I started the log just for kayaking so it is missing all of my bike rides from the first decade that I lived at Lake Tahoe….
Continue readingI was trying to make a tutorial for the Linkage software to show how to design a vertical sliding garage door. The door is built out of four or five segments with rollers at the intersections. The rollers roll in tracks that are vertical then transition through a…
Continue reading“Code” or “source code” are terms used to describe the written words in a programming language that have meaning in the context of that language. What I’m writing here right now is not “code” even though to someone who only reads and speaks Latin or Greek, it would…
Continue readingI just finished my first game of Union Stockyards. This is a game themed around the Union Stockyards of Chicago in the late 1800’s. More info can be found here. I played a two-player game with me being both players. The game board is two-sided and one of…
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