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Monthly Archive August, 2009

Hard Life for a Princess

August 30, 2009

Check out these wonderful photos of Disney princesses fallen on hard times by Dina Goldstein:

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Swine

There’s no shortage of insecurity and inti-intellectualism in the roleplaying world, but this guy has to be the king:
The Swine are any people for whom RPGs have, as their primary purpose, the conveyance of some kind of sense of personal self-worth. This need for gaining self-esteem out of RPGs manifests itself in creating and aggresively [...]

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Tilt-Juhana: Trials HD ja Shadow Complex

August 28, 2009

(Kuva: Trials HD)
Tiltin sivuilla on tällä viikolla julkaistu mun arvosteluni peleistä G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra ja Trials HD. Arvostelut voi tsekata myös videolla täällä.
Kirjoitin tänään Tilt-blogissani Parempia pelejä Shadow Complex -peliin liittyvästä boikotista.

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Research Blog Antarctica #92 - The Antarctic Express

August 27, 2009

Children’s book: Kenneth Hite & Christina Rodriguez: Antarctic Express (Atlas Games, 2009)
Ken Hite’s Antarctic Express sounds like a joke: it’s a children’s picture book version of H.P. Lovecraft’s Antarctic tale At the Mountains of Madness. Surprisingly, it’s pretty good, probably because it feels like it’s been done in all seriousness. I haven’t seen many tales [...]

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First Soviet Antarctic Expedition

August 25, 2009

English Russia has photos from the first Soviet Antarctic expedition, in 1955. Here’s a link to the original source.

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Tilt-Juhana: Velvet Assassin ja peliväkivallan olemus

August 23, 2009

(Kuva: Velvet Assassin)
Tiltin saitilla alkoi viime perjantaina pyöriä mun uusi vdeopeliaiheinen blogini Parempia pelejä. Sinne tulee uusi kirjoitus aina perjantaisin. Ensimmäisen kirjoituksen aihe on väkivalta peleissä.
Lisäksi saitille ilmestyi arvosteluni pelistä Velvet Assassin. Sen voi lukea täältä ja tsekata videolla täältä.

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J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews Ikuisuuden laakso

August 20, 2009

Game designer and academician J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews my game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) in his blog:

Compared to, say, Itras By or Stalker, it is a very simple game, almost a Forge-like one trick pony. Yet it does do its own thing really well, and it seems a very good game to start [...]

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Spore penguin

August 19, 2009

The antipenguins of my roleplaying game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) exist as Spore creatures, courtesy of user Tullius.
Check it out:

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