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Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp
Sent November 16th 2008
Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp
My new text adventure videogame, Everybody Dies, was just voted third out of 35 entries at the annual Interactive Fiction Competition!
It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart ...
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Why I Can't Wait Until 2020
Sent November 11th 2008
Why I Can't Wait Until 2020
If you knew I was a science fiction writer, you might assume it's because I'm eagerly awaiting floating cities or nanotech implants. But actually, it's the year I figure that all the World War II veterans will be dead.
On Nov...
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10 Ways to Get Your Writing Out There
Sent October 7th 2008
10 Ways to Get Your Writing Out There
I did a talk at Word on the Street last week tailored to a general, writing-interested Toronto audience. Ramón Pérez did live sketches that illustrated the talk, which were amazing considering the scant minutes each ...
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The Time Management For Anarchists comic
Sent September 8th 2008
The Time Management For Anarchists comic
Marc Ngui and I have just finished a 22 page comic book adaptation of the workshop and flash animation I made on how to be productive without having, or being, a boss.
Starring Emma Goldman and Mikhail Bakunin, i...
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On Escaping the Youth Demographic
Sent July 19th 2008
On Escaping the Youth Demographic
I turned 36 earlier this month, which makes it half my life that I've been an anarchist, a vegan, and a DIY culture maker. I was exposed to these philosophies through punk music and zines in my teens, and it's a bit of a...
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Will Wright References My Trip to Liberty City
Sent June 16th 2008
Will Wright References My Trip to Liberty City
Pretty nuts: that goofy Grand Theft Auto 3 video I made five years ago for my zine has been watched by the guy who designed SimCity, the Sims and the upcoming Spore. He actually mentioned it last week in a r...
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Free Artsy Games Released
Sent May 18th 2008
Free Artsy Games Released
The second round of the Artsy Games Incubator went terrific: all five of us ended up with videogames you can download and play: check out Mouse Police, Bungee Fisher, Cupcake Challenge, Albacross, and my own Baby Runs This Mofo....
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Selling Your Wares: 16 Tabling Tips
Sent April 28th 2008
Selling Your Wares: 16 Tabling Tips
Locus is a collaboration between two small independent publishers in Melbourne, aduki independent press and Vignette Press, run by Emily and Lisa. They got together to run market stalls (and now also a blog) because th...
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Who Pulitzer Prize Winners are Reading
Sent April 17th 2008
Who Pulitzer Prize Winners are Reading
Me, it appears.
2008's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Díaz, was asked what he was reading for pleasure and he named my and Salgood's graphic novel Therefore Repent! "It's completely nuts," he said, which ...
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Hang Out With Game Makers
Sent April 8th 2008
Hang Out With Game Makers
The last round of the Artsy Games Incubator was really good -- we had a longer run (meeting weekly for six weeks) than the first round, and we all ended up making videogames worth showing. So we're doing an open house at the Mob...
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