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Blog: Frozen Synapse and a site update

I know I am pretty late to the party, but Frozen Synapse is awesome. The most stark difference to me is when certain missions have you playing in the dark. It's already complex enough to position your units when you can account for enemy positions and somewhat predict their movements. It's almost impossible to feel like you're making right decisions when you know that there are 3-4 tangos wandering around, but you can't account for them. Gives me a new found respect for people who do this in real life. I can't imagine making life and death decisions with that many unknowns.

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Blog: Heroes of Neverwinter

I finally leveled up my wizard to level 10 in Heroes of Neverwinter. This is one of the few Facebook games that I've stuck with for quite some time. While it's not a perfect translation, I find that it's good enough to give me my D&D fix. I think Liquid did a good job taking the D&D engine and simplifying it down to make the game more accessible to mainstream audience. Let's hope that they can work out the bugs and the economy issues in time for launch. 

The game is currently in beta. If you like D&D 4E, go give it a try. If you need services of a level 10 wizard, add me on Facebook.

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Blog: Auto publishing

When we launched in August to go live for Gen Con we had to make a few feature compromises. The operating mode was "Let's launch, and we'll get to this feature in 1.2." Well now it's 1.2, and we are starting to catch up with some features. 

One of those features is automatic article posting that this post is testing. Yes, you guessed it, up until now all articles had to be posted manually at very inappropriate times. And by inappropriate, I mean as we're about to enjoy drinks at Shorty's in Seattle.

Welcome to the future, where robots are doing our posting. You see, robots, they don't get drunk and forget...    Read more...

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