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Pervasive

Cruel 2 B Kind

Like Killer / Assassin / etc, but instead of shooting people you have to be nice to them. Can’t see it catching on somehow, but who knows?

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Tabletop role-playing

Sheet Happens

This looks like a fun idea, which I might well ask if I can copy — would anyone be interested in taking part? The challenge- Design a character sheet. NOT A GAME. Just a character sheet. You have 2 weeks to do this. Everyone may submit a design, but they may only submit 1. At […]

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Tabletop role-playing

Sounds about right!

You scored as Storyteller. You’re more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You’re quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story […]

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Puzzles

El Complo

The title means I think The Conspiracy, and no doubt it contains all sorts of biting satire on the Mexican political system, but for our purposes it’s a nice little Flash game of the “make the little man do X” variety. Well, it wasted me some time. Edit: forgot to say, thanks karohemd for pointing […]

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PBM

My favourite email of today

Subject: about some info i read About susan walsh. you are deeply wrong. She had walked out of her apartment to make a call and was never heard from. The date was July,16,1996 when she dissapeared. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would change it. If you want to reply of any sort, […]

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PBM

Bizarre email of the week (so far)

“Dear Sirs. I have just conducted a search of ‘metal wall atlanteans’ and I have noted your site. I would be most grateful if you can advise where you obtained the origins of the extract noted on the following link: http://www.undyingking.com/oldgames/inferno/truehist.htm As I am very interested in some of the detail and it there a […]

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Puzzles

Hapland 2

Given the amount of time wasted on Hapland in my previous post, I thought it’s about time to start a new post for Hapland 2 — basically the same sort of thing, but more complicated! Be warned, it took me about twice as long to do as the first one. But there are lots of […]

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Puzzles

Hapland, or; How To Waste Half an Hour

Hapland is an excellent little Flash puzzle-game I’ve just found, although it must have been around for a while as there’s now a Hapland 2. It took me quite a while to solve it, but as I’m normally incredibly prone to giving up in disgust at tough puzzles, it’s a tribute to its fun-ness that […]

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Puzzles

River puzzle

Stumbled across this fiendish puzzle — I don’t have the patience to work it out, anyone else do better than that? (Without writing a program to solve it, wimble… oh OK then, you can if you like…)

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Play-by-Web

Quick plug for games

As many of you know, I run a bunch of (free) play-by-Web games on one of my sites. I just wanted to get a quick plug in for those of you who don’t know! They’re turn-based simple strategy games running at one turn per day, which typically take just a minute or two tops to […]