Gaming Ballistic

Travel in gaming

Bygamingballistic January 3, 2013

This morning, as always, I went about 13 miles to work. It took me, from when I hugged my family to when I pushed “go” on my computer, about 30 minutes. That’s not bad. This weekend, I will (again) travel from Minneapolis to Penang, Malaysia. That’s about 9,000 miles. It will, all told, take me…

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Tabula Rasa

Bygamingballistic January 3, 2013October 24, 2016

The blank slate. I have made several references on my Facebook page to a writing project that has . . . not been going well. Over the holiday, I prepped to visit my in-laws. They live about an hour west, so pretty close, but for reasons that will become clear, it’s not a “let me…

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Appreciating Game Design and the Size-Speed/Range Table

Bygamingballistic January 1, 2013October 24, 2016

I love the Size-Speed/Range table in GURPS. It’s a logarithmic progression where every six steps is a factor of ten in magnitude. Every time I used to look at a scaling issue, I’d try and work it, and work it, and work it . . . and in the end, I’d realize that the answer…

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