Kiss the Future Dubai...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the fate of speculative fiction over the last week, and it’s been impossible for me to consider it without also thinking about the collapse of Dubai. Take a look at these pictures and tell me that you don’t get a least a little bit of a...

Batman: Arkham Asylum &...

I’m about halfway into the new Batman game, and I already love it. And it’s not because it’s actually a great game. The thing is clunky in twenty different ways, not in the least of which is that Batman can’t actually jump, which is a usually sure sign that at some point in the...

Getting your reader to ...

I’ve spent the last few days working hard on a synopsis for my novel. It’s not easy to boil down 72,000 words to a few sentences. In fact it’s impossible. But the truth is, that’s not what you’re actually trying to do. The real heart of a good description is...

The Edges of the Sandbo...

No matter how big or amazing the virtual Sandbox you’re planning on building for your games, it’s going to have something in common with the silica stuffed playground analog in the real world: walls. You can do your best to hide them, integrate them into the landscape, or...

Social Gaming: The End ...

It must have been a shock to the film industry when they first realized that era of the silent movies were over, and the future was going to be entirely about the “talkies”. After all, the language of cinema had really only matured over the last decades before, and modern...