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Three hundred mechanics, with comics on the side

22-Nov-07

Surprisingly, Three Hundred Mechanics has nothing to do with Seven Hundred Hoboes, although I see no good reason why not.
It is a web site by Sean Howard listing 300 game mechanics (well, currently about 60). I like them. It’s like the ideas one occasionally has about game design, only with a neat formal twist, not [...]

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Pac-Man as interactive fiction

19-Nov-07

This is probably really old but I am not really keeping up to date with the Interactive Fiction world: Pac-Man as a text adventure.
Pac-Man was a junkie, eyes oozing pus, haunted by the ghosts of those he’d killed.
They called him Pac-Man because he was always packing heat, lightning-quick on the draw with a personal arsenal [...]

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