Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
I used to be an artist, it sucked to live and die by the quality of art. Now, being full time in technology and management, I find more inspiration to…
Read more →I personally want to move all my guns to ak beta spetz, ALL OF THEM. Particularly the Jing Gong Variety. Basically have all 9 guns AK Spetz. Weird huh? My guns are…
Read more →Too busy for my case study traveller game This is a work and life post. I realize being a relatively young biz “owner” i tend to be over enthuziastic about…
Read more →Related to the previous discussion, I’m in the inclination to Computer Simulation or to Go Abstract via Card Game… This is kind of a solution mixing both. The structure of…
Read more →Edits from a discussion with Ken Burnside and Nyranth. In the back of my mind this problem has been percolating and I’ve just recently gained some insight and I’m wondering if anyone…
Read more →It wasn’t a bad game, for someone who last played 4 months ago and had not exercised since. The only exercise I have is carrying my 16mo. old son around…
Read more →An Awesome Find for GMs who are willing to learn to do some programming late in life 😛 http://developer.ubuntu.com/ This is an application builder with a lower complexity barrier. Personnally I’m considering…
Read more →I’ve noticed a pattern when we deal with certain businesses: the argument about exceptions. the argument of exceptions is trying to nit-pick at your costing to lower their cost at…
Read more →Every important meeting we have we client, I keep notes. I leave it to the EA to address the minutes of the meeting, but I have my owns set of…
Read more →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 stay relevant for the next…
Read more →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 Ultra-Tech. Breaking down the formula…
Read more →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 guide by Sgt. maj, Brett…
Read more →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 believe the path is through…
Read more →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 the Sims. The Game or…
Read more →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 does this kind of project…
Read more →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 and in harn and gurps…
Read more →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 the Family Biz. There is…
Read more →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 life support systems power plants…
Read more →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 let it get to you……
Read more →Airsoft guns prices are rising every year. Since 2007, airsoft prices has risen to about 8000 from 4000. that is about 15% per year. Airsoft is a sport which requires…
Read more →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 that cronyism-job and need to…
Read more →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 for such plants really depend…
Read more →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 amount of Work or Strength…
Read more →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 crowd source some suggestions. If…
Read more →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 tools. Although I sometime wish…
Read more →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 an Open RPG System, there…
Read more →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 sample project monitoring collaboration sheet…
Read more →edX – Press Release Harvard making their own Open Course Ware like MITX
Read more →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. I’ve thrown out rules that…
Read more →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 in this post. I want…
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