Blade Edge

Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll

News?

Just stopping by to do some updating. Nothing much exciting has happened in the past week, though Dave and Lissa are being threatened by the California wildfires, so cross your fingers for them. I still see em online but yesterday Lissa told me they were probably moving out for a while because while they weren’t in immediate danger the air quality was getting really bad. Hopefully they and the kids stay safe.

Jetsetter

I have bought my tickets to go out to the Montreal International Game Summit at the end of November, so any fellow GDnetters that will be in attendance, holler out so I can say hi while I’m there. Before that, the first weekend of November I’ll be at the Video Game Expo (VGExpo) in Philadelphia, so if anyone else is checking that out let me know too. Finally I’ll be at the Toronto IGC in January, and I know I’ll run into a bunch of you guys there, like Rob Loach and Coldacid. After that it’s GDC in San Fran in Feb and OGDC in Seattle in May, followed by the Austin GDC in September. Quite the traveler I’m becoming! I think Canada will have to be the extent of my international travels for the time being however.

New Game and NaNoWriMo

I’m revisiting a game design concept and editing in some changes tonight. I’m going to start prototyping it next week so I can send it to GarageGames ASAP but next month I plan to once again participate in NaNoWriMo so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to work on it, seeing as I have to write at least 1.667k words a day in order to make the 30-day 50k word deadline. Which I still haven’t done. I think last year (no, the year before – I didn’t do it last year though I wanted to) I wrote like 8 pages . We’ll see what happens. Anyone else participating?

Downtime

Heading to the shore down in southern Jersey (where the beaches are huge) for the weekend with my girl. The weather isn’t looking to good, and I recently snapped my the lines to one of my kites, so it won’t be as fun as we planned but it’s a mini-vacation we both need – especially her. I’ll have to see if I can repair my lines tonight. Anyways we always manage to pull a fun time out of being together so I’m not worried.

Journeyman

Just wanted to say I’m hooked on this new NBC series. I wasn’t a big Quantum Leap fan back in the day but I did catch a few episodes channel surfing and thought it was cool. There aren’t many comparisons besides the whole time travel aspect, but the show itself is pretty well done, both acting and story-wise. The only thing I don’t understand is how Dan’s brother, being a detective, can’t seem to figure out what’s going on with Dan despite the fact that Dan told him what he was experiencing (tho he didn’t believe him at the time, true) and that Dan disappeared out of the bathroom at the charity ball and we saw no real reaction from him about that fact. So that’s a small hitch – maybe I missed something though. Anyways, any other fans out there?

Righty then, be back next week.