I’ve been running a Minecraft server out of the house for a while now, and I’ve finally completed my first project. For me, Minecraft is time spent with friends, so I couldn’t build something completely huge or amazing, and this was a bit more work than I initially expected. Pictures follow.
Category Archives: Gaming
Icebreaker vs Backswing
That’s right – it’s a DOUBLE MATH FRIDAY!. Since I failed to get a blog post out on Wednesday, I felt the need to get a second post out today. Also, I was playing around more with my spreadsheets and thought I would provide a similar chart for the options on one of my favorite infantry, Man-O-War Demolition Corps.
A Mathematical Approach to Spending Focus
As with any game, there are certain actions in WARMACHINE that can be seen as strictly better than others. As a mathematician, I felt impelled to figure out what those things were. As a computer scientist, I was going to use technology to help. As this is my blog, I am going to explain it to you…
Starting a New Army: Circle Orboros
I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time, but I recently made the jump to start a new army, this time in the world of HORDES. It took me a while to figure out precisely which faction I wanted to play, and I finally settled on Circle Orboros.
Weekend Warmachine
Last weekend, I got in a couple of Warmachine games, and I wanted to take a moment to document how they went here. The first was Harkevich vs. Reznik (against Cody) and the second was The Butcher vs. Supreme Aptimus Zaal (Ian). Details follow.
Guild Wars 2 – First Impressions
I’m sure there will be a lot of blogs like this this week, but I wanted to give a quick look at my first impressions of Guild Wars 2. This weekend was the first open beta event, and Jessa and I had one account between us, so I played a Charr Elementalist (Dalgren Crow) and she played a Norn Ranger (Carolina Lee). A couple of pictures and my main likes and dislikes below.
Guild Wars – Kae Listre
In anticipation of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend, I spent some time taking some screen captures of my current Guild Wars main: Kae Listre.
Enjoy!
Building up a Card Deck – Step 4: Printing, Gluing, and Cutting
If you’ve been reading the rest of these entries, this part really boils down to getting the physical cards built. In all the prior entries, I talked about how to gather the artwork together, create a template, and finalize the digital copies of the decks. Now, I get down to actually printing and assembling the cards.
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Fantasy Gaming in the 80s and 90s – Part 2: The Why
When I started my previous post on fantasy gaming in the 80s and 90s, I realized part way through that I had much more to say than anyone would want to read in one sitting. In that post, I talked about the various board games that I grew up playing, why I liked them, and what I still had left of them. Here, I’d like to talk a little bit about why I miss those games, and what is different about more recent games.
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Building up a Card Deck – Step 3: Putting Together the Deck
This is the third in a short series of posts about putting together a custom deck of cards from scratch. Step 1 was all about organizing the artwork in a meaningful way, and step 2 was about putting together a template to make the actual physical work easier. In this step, I’m going to talk a bit about how I put those two pieces together to make everything work.
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