It hard to believe it’s only been three short years since I launched Applied Gaming. According to The Internet, the appropriate gift for such an occassion is leather, though I’m hardly sure why… perhaps Year 3 is just about the time when a relationship needs the kind of spicing up best provided by leather goods.…
Earlier this month, I decided that if I wanted to keep calling myself a “fan of indie games”, it was finally time to join the cause and throw some money down on Kickstarter. Of the 100 bucks I promised to cough up, half went to the four projects I talked about in my last post.…
I’m sure nearly all of you have heard of the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, but since my grandmother reads this blog, please bear with me for a moment. Dear G-Dawg: (yes, we actually call my grandmother “G-Dawg”) Kickstarter is an amazing website where individuals can directly fund an exciting new idea, instead of sitting around on…
Earlier this month, we celebrated what turned out to be the most tragic Patriot’s Day in the history of the Commonwealth (except for, perhaps, the the original one). Then, eleven days ago, my quiet street here in Watertown was transformed into the closest thing I’d ever experienced to a war zone. By this past weekend,…
When two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday—killing 3 people and severely injuring more than 100 others—my first thought was a fairly obvious one: “Wow… that could have been us.” We’ve been down to watch the Marathon many times, and it was simply a matter of chance that instead of navigating the crowds…