I had forgotten about the sewing kits.

So, it’s all going great here with the new company. Tons of resumes flowing in from a variety of sources, and we’ve already made one hire. But one of the big challenges we’re having is trying to build a diverse team on the gender front. We see this as important because, well, teams of men tend to make games for men. And that’s not what we’re about — as the website says, we’re after something for anyone.

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The Experimental Gameplay Workshop has posted its 2007 Call for Participation. Jonathan Blow says,

The Experimental Gameplay Workshop is a concentrated mini-conference that happens yearly at the GDC. If you’re working on an innovative / experimental / original game, we encourage you to check out the web site and submit your work.

Some of the games from past years have been really very cool, so to all you developers and designers out there — go submit.

Around New Year’s. And this blog post over here has the story, sort of. I didn’t blog it because, well, it was a party, a social event thing. But since that blog describes the whole thing, there you go. My daughter makes a cameo appearance too (she would be the girl asking about DS wireless).

Alas, I was too busy playing guitar to stop and play Blokus with Nolan Bushnell. In fact, I don’t think he knows that I am in games at all, because all I did while he was there was lead the singalong!

He did, however, say that my playing “The Rainbow Connection” was “good stuff, good stuff.”

Appendages!

You can blame Fresh Hell for the pointer.