October, 2015

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Patreon October Updates

Sirlin

Patreon has been such an incredible help to me that I'm giving a thank you shout out to the Patreon staff as well as to all my patrons. (My Patreon is here , btw.) Patreon is a way for people to directly support the creative people they want to support. It's not for a specific project like a Kickstarter, but rather for everything that person is doing.

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The Fruit of Knowledge

Game Design Advice

I love Serpentes, a game by Benjamin SoulĂ© that you can buy here , and I want to tell you why. Serpentes is a variant of the classic computer game Snake. It is Snake “with stuff” The stuff in this case is ten different kinds of fruit. Each fruit is worth a different amount of points and also causes different things to happen, some good, some bad: adding or removing segments to your snake, adding obstacles and enemies to the playfield, giving you temporary abilities, extra time, bonus

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The Martian (The Book)

Tom Francis

No spoilers. The other day I really wanted something to do that would give my eyes a break from focusing on things right in front of them. So I looked for audiobooks, and remembered that I’d been planning to read The Martian – mostly because of this comic and its hover-text: Particularly interesting because that’s XKCD, by Randall Munroe, who used to work at NASA.

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