Author: dustinfreeman

  • Sitch Ring

    Since this is almost the third post in this vein, I’m tempting to add a tag on my blog for “news about sitch-like devices”. If you haven’t heard about the Sitch, it was a device I invented for the purpose of Deviants, a play I wrote and acted in this past spring. The central idea…

  • A Short History of Progress

    Summer of 2004:I’m bussing downtown at Chez Piggy, leaving me pretty unstimulated intellectually, leading some critics to call this “a rather boring summer.” While trying to cure my boredom, I discover Second Life while surfing on mmorpg.com. Considering I’m part of a real-life Improv Show, I try starting a team in Second Life. I manage…

  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    I know I’ve been pretty quiet since I got back from the amazing trip. I’ve been job searching, which is, for me at least, one of the most stressful activities in the world. Anyway, I may be two inches away from securing something but I can’t be really happy until that happens. Well, I noticed…

  • Psssstthhh!

    I know I’m supposed to be in Southeast Asia right now, but The Escapist has a great four-part article by Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Thief, Wing Commander, etc.) on Storytelling in games. link.

  • Gone to Southeast Asia

    From May 1st – June 10th, I’m gone backpacking across Southeast Asia with my friend Taylor. I won’t be updating this old place as much, but I will be putting words and pictures (and videos?) on our travel blog, http://ducksonaplane.blogspot.com/

  • Hot Fuzz versus Adaptation

    I just watched Hot Fuzz again last night in a theatre for the second time in a week. What a great movie on so many different levels. [SPOILERS] Halfway through the movie the first time, I suddenly dawned on me the similarities between this movie and Adaptation, another film I’m very much in love with.…

  • What I learned in Montreal

    On Wednesday, I took a bus up to a meeting of IGDA Montreal, to one of their casual meetings about the games industry. It was all really interesting, and too hard to sum up here, but here’s what I learned: – Montreal is becoming more and more the Hollywood of Games.– I have childish writing.–…

  • A wicked rhyme I thought up

    Then I hit the pavement, wondering how the rave went.

  • Bacon's Lover Blog Post #325: on the road

    Fuck I love bacon. Sometimes I get really intense cravings, and I want to be able to just snap my fingers and have bacon rain from the sky (see Perry Bible Fellowship). I want to eat bacon on with everything. With mustard, with eggs, with cats even. Are the new viewers gone yet? I’m on…

  • This helps me get through the day