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Best Whatever of 2011
posted by Sage LaTorra
As is traditional, here are a few of my favorite things (from 2011). Best Album: Bon Iver by Bon Iver Bon Iver’s first, For Emma, Forever Ago is still one of my favorite albums ever. Bon Iver could easily have been a letdown but it’s the exact opposite: a second album that establishes that For Emma wasn’t a fluke, some strange quirk of recording alone in a snowy cabin. Bon Iver takes Justin Vernon’s ghostly vocals (you’ve probably also heard him on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy), melds them with a band, and makes something truly special from it. There are nods to soft rock elevator music,...
Making Games As Apps
posted by Sage LaTorra
This is, first and foremost, a guide to making a device app for your game, but it also touches on a lot of my development process as well, since that’s a key factor. A little background: my development process for Dungeon World and Powers for Good has been to write into XML plaintext,...
