Let’s Try

On July 2nd at 10:33 Bruce Straley, director of Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us, received an email.

Subject: RE: Notice of Termination

Chapter 1

I went to GDC 2026 last week. This is notable for many reasons, not least of which: I am not currently a game developer. And in fact have not been for roughly 20 years.

Oh, sure. I’ve got a pile of hobby games deep enough that the cats sometimes get lost in it. I’ve written a MUD in just about every language it’s possible to do that in. And also some where it isn’t.

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Blogwagon: Contrariwise’s Rule of Three

I don’t know that it got as much traction as it probably deserved, but Sam Seer asked us to talk about three games that were important to us, and I thought. Yes. Yes I think I will.

A Tale in the Desert

I am not physically capable of being reasonable about A Tale in the Desert. This is my ur-game. This is the game that I literally cannot be allowed to play, because it would consume me whole.

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Half-tempted to write a massively distributed roll-and-write wargame to be played by All of PAX.

Insane? Yes, absolutely.

When has that stopped me before?