I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Larp is a Polish Continue Reading
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Roleplaying Game Movie Night #24: Treasure Trapped
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Treasure Trapped is a Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #149 – Whale Wars, season 4
Tv series: Whale Wars, season 4: U.S.A. Whale Wars is a documentary tv series following the anti-whaling campaigns of the environmental group The Sea Shepherds. Season one to three were pretty amazing stuff, with dangerous confrontations in the Antarctic Sea. In season four, it feels as if the series is Continue Reading
2015 in works that made me feel something
In retrospect, one of the best things about being fifteen or sixteen was the way you’d see a movie and your mind would be blown by the sheer awesomeness of it all. You hadn’t seen so many things, so everything appeared new. It was wonderful to experience all these ideas Continue Reading
Halat hisar returns in 2016!
Check out the announcement and the new website here. Sign-up starts early next year, game itself in June 2016.
Non-Digital: The Visionary Worldbuilding of 2nd Edition AD&D
I started roleplaying with the Finnish edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and graduated to playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition as soon as I learned enough English to read the books. While there’s been good and interesting stuff done in the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the game, Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Becoming a Perfect Human
Recently, me, Jaakko Stenros and Tuomas Puikkonen did a larp called Täydellinen ihminen (The Perfect Human). The idea was to delve deep into the clean, bright world of office stock photos. For a few hours, our participants would become these happy, smiling, efficient and joyful people. They would embody a Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Sä oot vaan niin ykköstyyppi
Pelasin Mad Maxia. Pelin loppupuolella aavikolta alkaa löytyä tyyppejä joilla ei ole oikeastaan muuta asiaa kuin sanoa, että sä olet Max aivan ykkösjätkä. Seuraavaksi ohjelmassa oli Dragon Age: Inquisitionin laajennus Trespasser. Siinä jengi supisee keskenään hahmon kulkiessa ohitse, että tuossa se nyt menee. Inkvisiittori. Vähänkö tärkeä tyyppi. Monissa roolipeleissä ja Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Vaikea kohta
Pelaan työsyistä uutta Mad Max -peliä. Se on avoimen maailman aavikkoseikkailu, jossa Max ajelee ympäriinsä autolla ja tekee pääasiassa erilaisia sivutehtäviä. Noin kaksi kolmasosaa pelistä sujui leppoisissa merkeissä, kunnes tapahtui jotain joka kauhistuttaa kaikkia meistä, jotka pelaamme deadlinen kanssa: Pelissä oli ns. difficulty spike, eli kohta joka on tuntuvasti vaikeampi Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #139 – Ice and the Sky
Documentary: Luc Jacquet: Ice and the Sky (France, 2015) Luc Jacquet is the director of the movie March of the Penguins, so this is not his first time with an Antarctic subject. Ice and the Sky is a documentary about the career of the French glaciologist Claude Lorius and also Continue Reading