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Dungeon, an RPG system for Commodore 64
I've gone ahead and pushed #Dungeon out the door for people to buy and play for $5. It's an RPG game system, for old-school RPG adventures, for the C64 from 1990. You use the Dungeon Guild to create a character, then put it through adventure modules other people have created. Five of them are included with the game, to play and to use their monsters and items in your own scenarios. It was published on Issue #74 of the C64 disk magazine LOADSTAR. It's presented by permission of the rights holder, Fender Tucker and configured to play in VICE.
posted by JHarris at 6:45 AM on April 26, 2024
I've gone ahead and pushed #Dungeon out the door for people to buy and play for $5. It's an RPG game system, for old-school RPG adventures, for the C64 from 1990. You use the Dungeon Guild to create a character, then put it through adventure modules other people have created. Five of them are included with the game, to play and to use their monsters and items in your own scenarios. It was published on Issue #74 of the C64 disk magazine LOADSTAR. It's presented by permission of the rights holder, Fender Tucker and configured to play in VICE.
posted by JHarris at 6:45 AM on April 26, 2024
What Big teeth, a free RPG about minimum wage werewolves
The pitch is that you're a group of people cursed to be werewolves. The curse drives you to hunt, and so most werewolves become murderous monsters. But the curse doesn't actually care what you hunt. So you're hunting the other monsters instead. But you still need to do your day jobs.
posted by Lorc at 10:31 AM on April 1, 2024 - 2 comments
The pitch is that you're a group of people cursed to be werewolves. The curse drives you to hunt, and so most werewolves become murderous monsters. But the curse doesn't actually care what you hunt. So you're hunting the other monsters instead. But you still need to do your day jobs.
posted by Lorc at 10:31 AM on April 1, 2024 - 2 comments
British Placename Mapper
A web app that lets you search for British place names that match certain queries (eg. starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh', contains 'sea') and show them on an interactive map. Fascinating patterns start to emerge, and you can even share links to your favourite configurations.
posted by robintw at 5:02 AM on April 3, 2024 - 8 comments
A web app that lets you search for British place names that match certain queries (eg. starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh', contains 'sea') and show them on an interactive map. Fascinating patterns start to emerge, and you can even share links to your favourite configurations.
posted by robintw at 5:02 AM on April 3, 2024 - 8 comments
The Taxonomy and Ecology of Demonology
I made a very short, illustrated, RPG pamphlet describing various categories of demon. For any game where you want a gently novel take on summoning and binding hostile otherworldly monsters.
posted by Lorc at 7:54 AM on November 27, 2023 - 5 comments
I made a very short, illustrated, RPG pamphlet describing various categories of demon. For any game where you want a gently novel take on summoning and binding hostile otherworldly monsters.
posted by Lorc at 7:54 AM on November 27, 2023 - 5 comments
British Seaside Simulator
Fully experience the sights and sounds of the UK’s coastal resorts. This was meant to be a quick thing using a ready-made rain effect but, as documented on Mastodon and ex-Twitter, I ended up doing it my own way from scratch and added lots more features.
posted by malevolent at 10:08 PM on October 1, 2023 - 2 comments
Fully experience the sights and sounds of the UK’s coastal resorts. This was meant to be a quick thing using a ready-made rain effect but, as documented on Mastodon and ex-Twitter, I ended up doing it my own way from scratch and added lots more features.
posted by malevolent at 10:08 PM on October 1, 2023 - 2 comments
Any movie scene, rewritten like a Michael Bay movie
Needs More Boom is proof that sometimes you just need to do something stupid for no other reason than "because I can." Just type the scene, hit the 💥LFG💥 button, and see how much better if would have been if Bay had shot it.
posted by missjenny at 5:57 AM on October 18, 2023 - 12 comments
Needs More Boom is proof that sometimes you just need to do something stupid for no other reason than "because I can." Just type the scene, hit the 💥LFG💥 button, and see how much better if would have been if Bay had shot it.
posted by missjenny at 5:57 AM on October 18, 2023 - 12 comments
Season of Skulls — my latest novel — is published today
Season of Skulls is the third book in the New Management trilogy, following on from 2020's Dead Lies Dreaming and 2022's Quantum of Nightmares. (Link points to a reading extract.)
posted by cstross at 5:06 AM on May 16, 2023 - 2 comments
Season of Skulls is the third book in the New Management trilogy, following on from 2020's Dead Lies Dreaming and 2022's Quantum of Nightmares. (Link points to a reading extract.)
posted by cstross at 5:06 AM on May 16, 2023 - 2 comments
Mini-Project: Macho Man and George Michael
This has been running in my head for months if not longer. I finally managed to get the two to collaborate.
posted by MollyRealized at 7:08 AM on October 19, 2022 - 1 comment
This has been running in my head for months if not longer. I finally managed to get the two to collaborate.
posted by MollyRealized at 7:08 AM on October 19, 2022 - 1 comment
Kilogram
The worst-quality photo sharing site on the internet - each image is compressed down to 1KB or less. It uses the browser's own JPEG encoder, so results can vary quite a lot (Firefox tends to end up a lot sharper than Chrome, with Safari somewhere in the middle).
posted by malevolent at 9:06 AM on October 4, 2022 - 8 comments
The worst-quality photo sharing site on the internet - each image is compressed down to 1KB or less. It uses the browser's own JPEG encoder, so results can vary quite a lot (Firefox tends to end up a lot sharper than Chrome, with Safari somewhere in the middle).
posted by malevolent at 9:06 AM on October 4, 2022 - 8 comments
Bean Salad
Choose your own adventure, bean salad edition.
posted by aniola at 5:29 PM on August 8, 2022 - 10 comments
Choose your own adventure, bean salad edition.
posted by aniola at 5:29 PM on August 8, 2022 - 10 comments
Early Collaborative Games of Fantasy and Imagination
A few months ago, I posted a rough translation of the rules to a collaborative fairy tale storytelling game more than 200 years old. I've now put that onto a Neocities site with many additional translations: a total of 5 variants of the same game re-published many times between 1801 and 1867, several variants of a game the same age that involves role-playing, and several variants of even older poetry and nonsense games related to the Surrealist game "Exquisite Corpse." There are also pages and translations explaining the history of the games' penalty phase, offering advice on running demos of the storytelling game especially using motifs from the earliest "secondary world" fantasy novel, and possible round-robin storytelling from the 1600s-1700s, as well as links to many additional sources for parlor games from 1551 to 1899.
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:58 PM on August 5, 2022 - 3 comments
A few months ago, I posted a rough translation of the rules to a collaborative fairy tale storytelling game more than 200 years old. I've now put that onto a Neocities site with many additional translations: a total of 5 variants of the same game re-published many times between 1801 and 1867, several variants of a game the same age that involves role-playing, and several variants of even older poetry and nonsense games related to the Surrealist game "Exquisite Corpse." There are also pages and translations explaining the history of the games' penalty phase, offering advice on running demos of the storytelling game especially using motifs from the earliest "secondary world" fantasy novel, and possible round-robin storytelling from the 1600s-1700s, as well as links to many additional sources for parlor games from 1551 to 1899.
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:58 PM on August 5, 2022 - 3 comments
Bad Moon Rising: The Strange Untold Story of the Cult Leader, his Newspaper and the Right
With the Moonies (previously on Metafilter) back in the news after the assassination of Shinzo Abe, I've re-released a free edition of my 2008 nonfiction book on this group and its connections to right-wing politics in the U.S. and Japan. In a new preface, I discuss why I made the PDF freely available with hopes of helping young people trapped inside this group.
posted by johngoren at 7:01 AM on July 12, 2022
With the Moonies (previously on Metafilter) back in the news after the assassination of Shinzo Abe, I've re-released a free edition of my 2008 nonfiction book on this group and its connections to right-wing politics in the U.S. and Japan. In a new preface, I discuss why I made the PDF freely available with hopes of helping young people trapped inside this group.
posted by johngoren at 7:01 AM on July 12, 2022
The many faces of Boris Johnson
I’ve just compiled 36 of my photographs showing London street art images of Boris Johnson into a single Twitter thread. The roles Johnson’s shown in here include comedian, demon, Beatle, blackface minstrel, clown, monster, glove-puppet, shoeshine, dominatrix, junkie and sexy manga boy. Threadreader.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:55 AM on June 17, 2022 - 3 comments
I’ve just compiled 36 of my photographs showing London street art images of Boris Johnson into a single Twitter thread. The roles Johnson’s shown in here include comedian, demon, Beatle, blackface minstrel, clown, monster, glove-puppet, shoeshine, dominatrix, junkie and sexy manga boy. Threadreader.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:55 AM on June 17, 2022 - 3 comments
Woefully Neglected
Sorry for the lack of updates! Yesterday was 10 years to the day since the last update to this site.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:59 AM on June 11, 2022 - 5 comments
Sorry for the lack of updates! Yesterday was 10 years to the day since the last update to this site.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:59 AM on June 11, 2022 - 5 comments
Every .horse domain
A simple website which lists every .horse domain. All of them. In one place. It is not alphabetised because horses are not alphabetised.
posted by secretdark at 9:53 AM on May 3, 2022 - 6 comments
A simple website which lists every .horse domain. All of them. In one place. It is not alphabetised because horses are not alphabetised.
posted by secretdark at 9:53 AM on May 3, 2022 - 6 comments
You think you're addicted to Spelling Bee?
Here's my NYT Spelling Bee inspired game, Spellbound. Besides coding it up, I created all the word lists. Compared to the NYT, there is more food and plants, fewer chemicals and fish, and no words that would embarrass anyone playing with their children. Free, no ads, no shared data, just for fun. And you don't need a subscription to the NYT to play it.
posted by AMyNameIs at 7:27 AM on March 19, 2022 - 11 comments
Here's my NYT Spelling Bee inspired game, Spellbound. Besides coding it up, I created all the word lists. Compared to the NYT, there is more food and plants, fewer chemicals and fish, and no words that would embarrass anyone playing with their children. Free, no ads, no shared data, just for fun. And you don't need a subscription to the NYT to play it.
posted by AMyNameIs at 7:27 AM on March 19, 2022 - 11 comments
The Fix - Everything We Think We Know About Drugs and Addiction is Wrong.
Samuel L. Jackson narrates this fast-paced, provocative series that upends everything you think you know about addiction—from why we use drugs to how they’re brought to market. Adapted from Johann Hari’s best selling book, “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs” and celebrated Ted Talk, "The Fix" exposes the true history of the war on drugs and its impact worldwide. Watch the entire series for free.
posted by nathancaswell at 1:05 PM on January 21, 2022 - 2 comments
Samuel L. Jackson narrates this fast-paced, provocative series that upends everything you think you know about addiction—from why we use drugs to how they’re brought to market. Adapted from Johann Hari’s best selling book, “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs” and celebrated Ted Talk, "The Fix" exposes the true history of the war on drugs and its impact worldwide. Watch the entire series for free.
posted by nathancaswell at 1:05 PM on January 21, 2022 - 2 comments
Birdsong Audio Separation
We made some cool new machine learning models for separating birdsong in soundscape recordings, and demonstrated how to use the separated audio to improve downstream classification. The separation model is available on github, where we've also got lots more examples. There's also a paper.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:27 PM on January 24, 2022 - 4 comments
We made some cool new machine learning models for separating birdsong in soundscape recordings, and demonstrated how to use the separated audio to improve downstream classification. The separation model is available on github, where we've also got lots more examples. There's also a paper.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:27 PM on January 24, 2022 - 4 comments
WordleWordle
Feeling SPEECHLESS at the wonderfulness that is Wordle? But prefer to play words that are DECAMETRIC? Ready to put UNSTINTING effort into a new word COLLECTION with the same AESTHETICS? This might just be in your SUGARHOUSE if you can make the ADJUSTMENT from 5-letter words to 10-letter words. STRENGTHEN your VOCABULARY and play WordleWordle today!
posted by willF at 1:33 PM on February 4, 2022 - 14 comments
Feeling SPEECHLESS at the wonderfulness that is Wordle? But prefer to play words that are DECAMETRIC? Ready to put UNSTINTING effort into a new word COLLECTION with the same AESTHETICS? This might just be in your SUGARHOUSE if you can make the ADJUSTMENT from 5-letter words to 10-letter words. STRENGTHEN your VOCABULARY and play WordleWordle today!
posted by willF at 1:33 PM on February 4, 2022 - 14 comments
Around the World in 80000 lat/lon pairs.
I got a bit obsessed with Around The World in 80 Days, and went looking for a data set showing the journey. It turns out there wasn't one, so I went and made it.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:56 AM on February 10, 2022 - 1 comment
I got a bit obsessed with Around The World in 80 Days, and went looking for a data set showing the journey. It turns out there wasn't one, so I went and made it.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:56 AM on February 10, 2022 - 1 comment