2012-06-13
How Margins Work and are Made
This is how I calculate margins: Step 1: get your total-cost-of-ownership of one years’ operation Step 2: get how much it costs to upgrade to…
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2012-06-12
One of those Common Plots for Traveller Game
I just finished watching Prometheus. Its nice that most of the equipment I saw can be found in your basic sci-fi setting, especially considering GURPS…
2012-06-12
Personal Projects: Summarize my Must read books
Personal Projects: Summarize my Must read books Youtube video of 5-10mins of my favorite books and key lessons and summary. Starting with Combat Leaders Field…
2012-06-08
Transparency Means Changing the Way the Game is Played
I’m aware of the Millenium Development Goals and some of the major projects that seek to improve the quality of life in the Philippines. Some…
2012-06-05
Modular Games within the Game
Continuing from my previous post I thought of various gamification of certain GM tasks. Mind Maping Game. Basically its like a mind map version of…
2012-06-03
Putting Ideas out There; Game Service Biz Plan on the Fly
These are projects I’d like to undertake if i had the time, capital and freedom. I’m putting my ideas out there, I don’t care who…
2012-06-03
Game within a Game: modular and complete games and game systems.
Game within a Game: modular and complete games and game systems. I was looking at the rules for world building in the old traveller games…
2012-06-02
To Busy to Game
Major projects at work is keeping me too busy to make anything worth posting and getting hits. Some major work and life changes, particularly in…
2012-05-27
IMTU: Basic Infrastructure of Colonies
I’ve broken down the Shipbuilding Rules into a bunch of ratios that would be useful for building a Space Colony. labs survey stations medical stations…
2012-05-26
When they Lie, I lose Ground.
Because of how biz works, when you are in a professional setting and someone lies at your side’s expense you cannot react and you cannot…
2012-05-25
Complexity of Salaries, some ideas.
Cleaning House. Cronyism leads to very high salaries. Salaries that are beyond the market norm, and does not reflect the productivity. If such people lose…
2012-05-22
IMTU: Mining = Farming
IMTU colonists use genetically engineered plants that are designed for the particular planets to trap, concentrate, synthesize, and mine mineral and chemical resources. The turn around time…
2012-05-22
IMO the best Mental Model for Strength is Work
The best Mental Model for Strength is Work in my opinion. What I mean by work, the SI unit or Watts. There is a an…
2012-05-20
Updates, Opened up my Gaming Assistant Biz Notes
I made public my Gaming Assistant Notes, as well a whole set of notes related to it. My purpose is to gain visibility and hopefully…
2012-05-20
Real World Work Skills/Tools useful in Gaming
I get more practice in using these tools and skills thanks to gaming, that it actually makes it a natural for me to use such…
2012-05-19
Mental Models = RPG System
I believe an Open RPG System is almost the same thing as a Science Based Mental Model of how the world works. I’m working on…
2012-05-18
Gaming Projects Monitoring Sheet
Too many projects and to many distractions from life and work, so I might as well be organize and track them all. Here is a…
2012-05-16
edX – Press Release
edX – Press Release Harvard making their own Open Course Ware like MITX
2012-05-15
Prepping a Game Session for our Sales Team
Ok, I tend to blend work and games to a fault. So much that I’ve become rather an alien kind of gamer in the game-o-sphere.…
2012-05-15
Trusting and Respecting a Stranger; The Family Motto
Integrity is a big part of work, there are many Game-theory reasons why Integrity is a big issue, but I’ll not cover all that here…
2012-05-14
Space Warfare Doctrine on a Budget Doc.
Moving forward I have to consolidate my notes and the comments, so I just made a Google Doc that is editable. There are a lot…
2012-05-14
Learning by Doing; Sci-fi is the ultimate Project Based Learning
Just a thought. I listed my ideas in the link and realized after writing it that I found an interesting way to teach people some…
2012-05-13
Sci-fi on a Budget
In the discussion of scanners with ken and nyranth, working a setting without stealth is not such a bad thing. I think the sooner we…
2012-05-12
Scanning Limitations of Technology
Scanning Limitations of Technology I was doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations with regards to scanning. So TL10 is 10,000 times better processing than our own computers…
2012-05-11
Leveling up in the Real World
The most a company can realistically promise is that “they will help you grow”. Growth means better skills, capabilities, and income. This does not mean…
2012-05-09
Add this Project: Make Complicated RPGs easier to run
There is that love hate relationship between complexity and convenience in science, business and life. Some of the best things in life are truly complicated,…
2012-05-08
IMTU Book keeping Assumptions
These are typical practices, the dominant practice. Its just good biz sense because it protects both parties. There are always exceptions, because many times biz…
2012-05-07
IMTU Cost of Energy and the Future.
I hopefully make it clear that No Game System has a copyright in using Economics used as a World building tool. That said, you can…
2012-05-06
Fictify Kickstarter: For the GM who needs a little more prodding
Plugging this Kickstarter, Basically its a program that keeps your eye on the ball. So if you know how distracted you can be and you…
2012-05-05
IMTU: TL or Era Level is GDP/C; Gini Coeffcient IMTU
IMTU TL will be used for GDP per Capita. It also has the added use of determining the technology support capacity of the State. Wealth…