Since I post both about games and poems every Sunday, I feel obligated to link today to the Game Poets Society. As they say in a recent blog post,
The closest approximation to GPS is essentially a webcomic, with the poems as substitutions for comic strips.
Gamasutra brings us word that Microsoft is going to enable amateurs to develop for the 360. At first, it looks like it’s for a “club” style sandbox only, not for the general public, but it does hold out hope for totally indie games to make it out to the hands of the general population someday.
Yehuda has issued a Call for Open Source Board Gaming, prompted by the fears that game mechanics are getting locked up by patents.
So I went and made a Minihome on Cyworld’s US beta to try it out. You can visit it at http://us.cyworld.com/raph if you like.
A few observations:
This poem was originally written about my upstairs neighbor when I was very little kid in Greenfield, MA. She did have bottles everywhere in her small upstairs apartment, though in my memory the quantity of them is probably exaggerated.
