Cortical Implant

02/04/2024

I had a great time running They Come at Night at Conpulsion this year. We got a good turn out of players and had one of the highest body counts I've ever seen in one of our little personal apocalypse's.

This run was demonic entities rising up from the grave with the added twist, that the souls of the dead were able to posess the demons get a second chance at life and potentially come to humanities aid.

Just as well as I think we had 12 character deaths over 11 players this run.

01/04/2023

First mock ups for the IC character sheets for Battle of the Bands.

06/02/2023

Submissions are now open for the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program! This program focuses on amplifying the voices of up-and-coming hobby game designers with a focus on creators from marginalized communities.

The Emerging Designer Program provides both access and support to those designers that have historically been excluded from the larger industry conversations. While we recognize this program is only a first step in that process, our organization is committed to pushing forward, learning from mistakes, and improving the industry we love.

Designers who are selected as finalists receive a free badge and hotel room at Gen Con, up to $2000 travel reimbursement for both domestic and international travel, a $75 per day food stipend, a $500 – $2500 honorarium for presenting their work, and are showcased as a Diana Jones Emerging Designer at the event.

Eligible designers should have released their first professional or commercial publication (including free, self-published, PWYW, and PDF releases) no more than four years before the selection year. A designer selected for 2023’s Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program should not have first published before 2019, for example. We interpret “hobby game designer” broadly, to include both narrative and game mechanics design.

For Excellence in Gaming

05/02/2023

Wow, I've started playing with ChatGPT to get ideas for what might happen to some the artists in Battle of teh Bands so I can do a music magazine retrospective about the night.

It's been suprisingly helpful. I started by asking for biographies, but for all I changed about a few details in the prompt they were mostly very similar and followed the sme formula. Still enough to give me some ideas for the sort of language I might want to use, though.

Then I got it to give me some examples of events that might have ended a musician's carreer or caused them to try something different and give them examples of what they might do next. There were loads of ideas in there, way more than I can use, so I can just cherry pick the best ones.

Finally I got it to sugest things that musicians might consider their crowning achievement a it not only did that, bu fleshed out why they would consider it important.

24/07/2022

Words to live by in LARP as well as life.

13/07/2022

I wonder if I could get a few people together to buy it as a larp/paintball venue?

Detached house for sale in Bull Sandfort, Humber Estuary, Hull HU12 0UG, HU12 for £50,000. Marketed by Savills, National Auctions