Paraglyph Press is telling me that A Theory of Fun for Game Design may be going back for a third printing soon. In the second printing, we corrected a few errors and added in reader reactions at the back. I haven’t heard of any further errors in the book, so I figured, why not open-source the task of finding them?
So if you know of any factual errors or things that should be corrected, please post a comment here!
…is being up at 2am, feeling lousy, but wide awake because you messed up and took the non-drowsy meds instead of the nighttime ones. 😛
At least there are large quantities of somewhat amusing things on Google Video.
I just got done watching Disney’s TV movie of A Wrinkle in Time, a book I would have thought was basically unfilmable.
This one merits an explanation in advance. 🙂
I’ve spent a lot of my life around creative people. A lot of people dressed in black, long overcoats, occasional breakdowns (while I was the resident assistant for the creative arts floor, we “only” suffered through a few mental breakdowns, one drug-induced miscarriage, one fire, one suicide attempt, and a half-dozen alcohol poisonings…), and of course, talent.
I’ve also now gotten to know a few “guru” types — particularly from the world of SF (yes, Bruce, David, Cory, if you’re reading this, I mean you). There’s some patterns to be seen (and I hope they don’t take offence!). A habit of preparing and practicing good phrases to drop into conversation. A certain manner about them that combines a brilliant mind with a certain degree of performance — expansive gestures and a fired-up passion about whatever they happen to be talking about. Getting past that to get to know them can be a little tricky, actually.
Well, long ago, “The Imaginary Playmate Speaks” opened the door to a series that I called “the genius poems.” They were about an “invisible playmate” who was, in some ways, the dominant partner. Someone who had the qualities described above: the aspects of guru and of talent and of, yes, kook. Someone who was both right and also needed puncturing.
I wrote a hell of a lot of these; probably thirty or more. This one here is one of the more sarcastic ones.
Of course, by posting this, I am giving away all of my secrets, and now all of you can get as many speaking invites and interviews as you like!
