andrew pierce (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} andypie) wrote,@ 2008-07-21 11:02:00 |
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30 minutes or less (working title)
30 minutes or less (working title)
i finished creating a board game where up to four people can actually play it from start to finish! gina and i have played twice already and have made a handful of changes to the rules, but i'm anxious to get more people to play it and let me know what they think.
the premise of the game is to deliver pizzas to earn money. you can use the money to buy more ingredients or items (cards) that give you special abilities (i.e. you gotta spend money to make money). one part resource management and one part cleverly moving around and changing the board to block the other players from getting where they need to go. i'll try to post some pictures later.
not having cable television... or any television whatsoever has made me realize how often i depended on it in the past to relieve summer boredom. i long for it badly. i've been enjoying a lot of great books this summer, but reading is difficult when 1) your child is running around the house with kitchen utensils and 2) your wife wants to do something even though she and you have no idea what to do except that you'd like to read your book but then you feel guilty about it because it's not like you're reading it out loud so and you can't leave the house because the baby is asleep and it's 100 degrees outside anyway and your about flat broke too AND there's no way you're going to play mancalla again because it's not like you ever win even though you think you always will because it's such a simple game but she won't play starship catan because it takes too long.
oh well, our tax refund should FINALLLLLLY be here in a week or so, and i start a "real job" on august first i.e. the job i went to school for six years for. i can feel the sun's warm rays from out over the horizon. i can even see them too. one of them looks like cable!
there are lots of things on gina's and my "wish list", but it's all stuff we want. not things we need, so we're waiting as patiently as we can.
the top three items on my wish list are:
1) beefeater dry gin
2) cable television
3) a weed eater
what the heck did i read this summer anyway?
pascali's island by barry unsworth
the siren of titan by kurt vonnegut
life of pi by yann martel
peace by richard bausch
halfway through stranger in a strange land - robert heinlein
next is foundation and empire by isaac asimov
to close the entry i'd like to say that final fight for the SNES is the cheapest game ever, and i'm glad i have streets of rage II which is a complete ripoff except for the ridiculously frustrating and cheap gameplay.
30 minutes or less (working title)
i finished creating a board game where up to four people can actually play it from start to finish! gina and i have played twice already and have made a handful of changes to the rules, but i'm anxious to get more people to play it and let me know what they think.
the premise of the game is to deliver pizzas to earn money. you can use the money to buy more ingredients or items (cards) that give you special abilities (i.e. you gotta spend money to make money). one part resource management and one part cleverly moving around and changing the board to block the other players from getting where they need to go. i'll try to post some pictures later.
not having cable television... or any television whatsoever has made me realize how often i depended on it in the past to relieve summer boredom. i long for it badly. i've been enjoying a lot of great books this summer, but reading is difficult when 1) your child is running around the house with kitchen utensils and 2) your wife wants to do something even though she and you have no idea what to do except that you'd like to read your book but then you feel guilty about it because it's not like you're reading it out loud so and you can't leave the house because the baby is asleep and it's 100 degrees outside anyway and your about flat broke too AND there's no way you're going to play mancalla again because it's not like you ever win even though you think you always will because it's such a simple game but she won't play starship catan because it takes too long.
oh well, our tax refund should FINALLLLLLY be here in a week or so, and i start a "real job" on august first i.e. the job i went to school for six years for. i can feel the sun's warm rays from out over the horizon. i can even see them too. one of them looks like cable!
there are lots of things on gina's and my "wish list", but it's all stuff we want. not things we need, so we're waiting as patiently as we can.
the top three items on my wish list are:
1) beefeater dry gin
2) cable television
3) a weed eater
what the heck did i read this summer anyway?
pascali's island by barry unsworth
the siren of titan by kurt vonnegut
life of pi by yann martel
peace by richard bausch
halfway through stranger in a strange land - robert heinlein
next is foundation and empire by isaac asimov
to close the entry i'd like to say that final fight for the SNES is the cheapest game ever, and i'm glad i have streets of rage II which is a complete ripoff except for the ridiculously frustrating and cheap gameplay.
