Twitter Week: 2009-05-30
- Won 18C2C: C&O+Wabash & Norfolk&NW+GMO for the win. Beautiful stations & destination runs. Phew! #18xx #kublacon #
- Late mid-game in yesterday’s 18C2C: http://twitpic.com/5s0sg #
- Cavum, Corner Lot, 18Mex, 18TN requested by others for today. #kublacon #18xx #boardgame #
- How strange: was just asked to sign a copy of Age of Sream: London/Sun. #kublacon #
- Corner Lot desc’d at #kublacon design competition as Knizia-like strategy-dense publishable. Another request for player aids. #
- Corner Lot in top 3 of #kublacon competition. Some complaint of too unobvious, mathy and tempo-driven: ie things I like & designed it to be! #
- @punkzter My #AgeOfSteam maps (Wales, Central America, Denmark, SE Australia etc) are still slowly moving toward publication. #boardgame in reply to punkzter #
- Played 18C2C, 18Mex & 1889 at #kublacon. 18C2C endgame continues long after gameplay dies. 1889 is proving deeper than I’d thought. #18xx #
- Winner of the #kublacon design competition was combinatorial game, “Kiva”. Simply brilliant game. Sadly unpublishable but deserved the win #
- Dice rolling redux (via IngredientX) http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic #
- @frandallfarmer More evidence to support man’s gestation as a creature of lightly wooded plains? in reply to frandallfarmer #
- A/B testing: when does it have meaning? http://tr.im/mAOe (via ericries) #
- Hummingbirds are nesting right outside my front door. Eggs too! I feel bad merely leaving the house for the scare I must give them. #
- RT @BoardgameNews:Article: Brett Gilbert applies John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicty” to game design – http://bit.ly/17tde0 #
- RT @asbruckman DRM encourages people to break the law to use content legally. Empirical study by Akester in Ars Technica: http://is.gd/IiF5 #
- Bing: But It’s Not Google. Ooops. #
- (Ahoy, the startup life!) “”Sleep” and I broke up a few nights ago. I’m dating “Coffee” now. She’s Hot!” (via @ev, @CoryBooker) #
- Marketing makes good works known, Sales makes them bought: RT @NotGodinREPOSTs:The difference between marketing & sales http://ff.im/-3mLLy #
- She’s right, but only at scale: RT @alleyinsider:Subscriptions Only Work “Selling Weird Porn,” Says Arianna Huffington: http://bit.ly/zruA5 #
- Gahh! Is a low noise twitter search for #18xx related (game) traffic possible? http://search.twitter.com/operators #
- Obama’s burger outings are both branding touchstones and incredible marketing. Could beat Teddy’s fireside chats. http://tr.im/mPRg #
- @haazmatt #18xx OR “Deep Thought Games” OR “Heron Games” OR 1830 OR (list of 18xx titles) -from:news5_1860 (last needed as I list 1860) in reply to haazmatt #
- @haazmatt Which isn’t a very good search, but is what I use for now. in reply to haazmatt #
- The cost of phyrric victories writ large at Microsoft? Or inclusive vs exclusive relationships with customers & partners? http://tr.im/mQ7R #
- @brettspiel I’d search for just 18xx and not just the hashtag #18xx, but it matches all the crime stat reporting services.. Bah! #18xx in reply to brettspiel #
- @brettspiel I suspect 18xx means it is from radio-scanned dispatch rather than official. 17xx & 18xx are usually dispatch in police lingo. in reply to brettspiel #
- Is the big problem with electronic speech the separation of intent & meaning? Human speech is not algebraic, but our electronic speech is. #
- I dislike the centralised model espoused by Facebook/Google Wave/Twitter etc. Where is personal federation? Must the model be hub & spoke? #