Creating Emotion in Games by David Freeman
This was a fantastic book, not just for writing in video games, but for writing in general. There’s great game theory in here and strong techniques for applying the many lessons prose and screen writers have learned to game design and writing. And even for games with limited writing [...]

Writers – check out this little flash slideshow to understand what YourOtherMind can do for you.

Some of the features mentioned will not be available until version 8.2, due for release Fall 2009.

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width:500px;
height:300px;
background-color:#333;
border:1px outset #000;
text-align:center;
cursor:pointer;
}
#flash h2 {
font-size:40px;
color:#fff;
margin-top:80px;
}

Click here to play movie

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For those not directly in the gaming industry, you may not have heard the phrase “the casual gamer”. Effectively this is a label embracing all the potential game players who don’t regularly play video games, but potentially or occasionally do play. This audience is (theoretically) larger than the “rest of us”, those of us who [...]

I should preface this post by noting that I know Naomi, having worked with her for a short period of time on the first Neverwinter Nights expansion pack, Shadows of Undrentide. Though to show how little I knew her, I had no idea she was writing (or was going to write) a novel. She was [...]

Lots of exciting stuffing happening with the newest verison of YourOtherMind. You can keep track of the details on the verison 8.1 page http://yourothermind.com/publish/?p=395.
Basically as more people use YourOtherMind, more and more data is being added to it and I realized the need to “extract” information more quickly. The dashboard page that will be revealed [...]

There’s been a few glitches but I’m about 25% of the way migrating my old site into this wordpress site. Maintenance is going to get a lot easier, which should mean more frequent updates and other goodies.
Meanwhile, while you’re waiting for the update, might I urge you to go and subscribe to On Spec magazine? [...]

Beginning to transition my site from www.yourothermind.com into this new WordPress one. I’ll have to decide if I’ll migrate my blog from brentknowles.livejournal.com or not.

Very much enjoying the audible version of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel Flash Forward. It is a very entertaining novel and I’m hoping to see it as a television series next year on ABC.

YourOtherMind 8.0 has been posted to the website. This new version’s primary feature addition is the StickIt page type which is a visual page that allows for notes, images and timelines to be manipulated on the screen.
Two video tutorials have been posted to the YourOtherMind details page. http://www.yourothermind.com/YourOtherMind/keeperdetails.htm

A review of the On Spec issue in which “A Ragman’s Vow” appeared can be found at The Fix
I’m very glad the reviewer enjoyed my story so much!