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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: My Games

  • Birthday Presents

    Today's my birthday! To celebrate, Wizards of the Coast were kind enough to release the all new 2024 edition of the Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons. But what's even cooler is that today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the day I first played D&D. Way back in 1984, I didn't really know what…

  • Making Myths

    I just so happens that I do a pretty good Ian-McKellen-as-Gandalf imitation. I also have a not-half-bad Sean Connery, an okay Marlon Brando, a passable Patrick Stewart, a poor but at least consistent Clint Eastwood, and a laughable attempt at a Harrison Ford. All of these amateur impressions were useful to me more than ten…

  • Fifteen Years of Far Cry 2

    Five years ago, for Far Cry 2's tenth anniversary, I wrote a whole series of blog posts reflecting on some of the great criticism the game had generated. Today marks the game's fifteenth anniversary, but rather than revisit that exercise, which was a lot of work, I'll leave it to the experts. Lewis Gordon has…

  • Dev Game Club Podcast Interview

    A few nights ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Tim and Brett at Dev Game Club after they had just spent the past five episodes of their podcast playing and talking about Far Cry 2. The series starts here, and the interview is the last one. I worked briefly alongside Tim at LucasArts,…

  • Wonder and Madness

    Back in the summer I mentioned that I had submitted an entry to the One Page Dungeon Contest, which challenges creators to make a table top RPG adventure or dungeon entirely contained to a single page. Of course, I thought 'one page?, pffff… that sounds easy.' Turns out, not so much. On top of that,…

  • Out of the shadows…

    For those wondering what I’ve been up to for the past while, here’s the news; a year or so ago I moved back to Montreal, and have been working on an upcoming Assassin’s Creed game. Assassin’s Creed: Codename Hexe was revealed with a teaser in the AC Showcase that aired as par to Ubisoft Forward over…

  • The Tin Man of Far Cry 2: Part 7

    To conclude this series on my favorite pieces about Far Cry 2, I have chosen a handful of pieces that, for one reason or another, I felt did not ‘fit’ in the Top 10. I chose to keep there pieces separate from the Top 10 for a few different reasons. For example, a couple of…

  • The Tin Man of Far Cry 2: Part 6

    I don’t think anyone could have predicted this would be my number one. For all of the number ones you were expecting, you’ll have to check Part 7 once it goes up in a couple of days. Part 7 won’t be so much a list of honorable mentions, as it will be a list of…

  • The Tin Man of Far Cry 2: Part 5

    The Number Two in my Top 10 definitely breaks my ‘rule’ about not using pieces that were written in the first six months or so if the game’s release. I chose this one, however, because I feel it doesn’t come off as a review so much and it has a timeless quality about. #2 –…

  • The Tin Man of Far Cry 2: Part 4

    These next two pieces have a lot in common. Both are fairly serious criticisms of the ludic and narrative handling of some elements of the game. These pieces call out the game’s allusions to political Realism, the problem of the absence of civilians, and its handling of imperialist and colonialist tropes. These criticisms are tough,…