Turkmenistan looks like something from another planet. Or more precisely, from a science fiction movie. Here’s a few buildings in Ashgabat. Note the consistent architectural style, common to many fictional space civilizations: A view from the spaceport parking area. The “Golden Eye” defense system is ready to blast hostile spacecraft. Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #132 – Whiteout (the game)
Video game: René Rother: Whiteout Whiteout is a small game playable either in a browser or as a stand-alone installation. Made as part of a 48-hour game creation challenge, it distills a simple Antarctic experience. You’re an expeditioner, and your partner has disappeared. You’re in the middle of a white Continue Reading
Life Under Occupation is out!
Life Under Occupation: A documentation book for the larp Halat hisar has been published! Edited by me, it’s a collection of articles, photos and other stuff about the larp we did last year. Download it for free from here.
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #17: Good Luck Charlie, Huge & Emily Owens, M.D.
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. (Good Luck Charlie, season Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #16: Shakma, Gamerz & Skullduggery
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. (Shakma) Of all the Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #15: King of the Nerds, season 2
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. (The contestants on King Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #14: High Road
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. This is the music Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #131 – Southern Exposure
Non-fiction: Alia Sorensen: Southern Exposure (AuthorHouse, 2005) Southern Exposure documents writer a year of Alia Sorensen’s working life on Antarctica in the early 2000’s. It’s not an ambitious book, and perhaps that’s its strength. Sorensen worked both a summer and a winter at McMurdo station in the kitchen. The book’s Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #13: Peter Watkins
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. The British director Peter Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #12: Community, The IT Crowd, Full Battle Rattle, The Last of Sheila & Midnight Madness
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. (Full Battle Rattle) Full Continue Reading