No Time To Play @notimetoplay@elekk.xyz

The price of .org domains increased without warning, and now my PayPal account is $10 short, with less than a month until the due date.

Turns out there are tabletop RPGs as old as Frankenstein. How cool is that. https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org/

"Retrospective: Wizardry" http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2022/07/retrospective-wizardry.html

"It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari, which brought video games to the mainstream. To celebrate, we asked Bushnell what he learned during the early years—and what we’ve lost sight of since then." https://www.howtogeek.com/812246/atari-was-very-very-hard-nolan-bushnell-on-atari-50-years-later/

Wrote down a few thoughts about the ongoing tech disaster in Canada: https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-07-09_Programming

On the importance of letting personal experiences and real life inform your fictional work: https://www.filfre.net/2022/07/broken-sword-the-shadow-of-the-templars/

"When software makes you laugh!" Yet another tool round-up from the inimitable Nathalie Lawhead: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/when-software-makes-you-laugh-creativity-as-a-mechanic-how-it-exists-in-games-and-the-ethics-of-either-empowering-or-exploiting-creation

Funny how anything related to crypto seems to involve art theft: https://www.pcgamer.com/owner-of-itchio-accuses-newly-launched-alternative-w3itchio-of-theft/

Turns out you can enable web-based #CYOA using literally *two lines* of CSS: https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-06-29_Programming

This was supposed to go out tomorrow, but whatever: new link roundup! https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-06-14_Assorted

Game jams are valuable, y'all.

I had no idea so many well-known games started out as game jam entries: https://itch.io/t/2147192/game-jam-games-that-went-viral

Also: it's not that people don't believe victims of abuse. They blame and punish the victims, while abusers receive humble apologies. Justice is an empty word. We side with the strongest naked ape, always.

Reminds me of the times when someone very close to me would dutifully report on every detail of my personal life to a lot of people, just because they were "family". It took a lot of convincing to stop it.