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Overwhelming Gearwheels 2019-01

01: Why gearwheels, and why do they overwhelm?

These are two of the only words in the SOWPODS tournament word game dictionary that contain my initials, RWHE, in sequence. (See also logo top right.) The four other stems include everwhere, otherwhere, underwhelm, and waterwheel. Are everwhere and otherwhere even words?

However, expect to find more than wordplay within. As goes the motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a company that bears a greater than accidental resemblance to many places I've worked, Share and Enjoy!

Here are some overwhelming (in a good way) gearwheels to start things off. If you don't know what that photo is all about, consult Wikipedia.

Designing games while asleep

I awoke out of a dream the other night and couldn't fall back to sleep until I jotted down an idea for my work in progress, Parallel Pastimes, an idea that in my dream was being propagated by the half-Deep One protagonist of the revisionist Lovecraftian novel, Winter Tide (for some reason). In the morning, I saw it was this:

Massively multiplayer jigsaw puzzles.

I already have more game ideas than I can finish writing, so this will probably be a throwaway bit of design fiction, just a line or two. Kind of a relief. Don't need to go on another hypomanic bender developing this one.

Beyond the behind

January 1 is almost over and I haven't played even one game of my 2019 10x10 challenge. I'm (a) behind in a big way....

I'm thinking of starting a new game group called The Other Other Operation. If you live in the Seattle area, let me know if you're interested in playing some of these games or similar.

02: Operation Metagame: the 10x10 gaming challenge, Dr. Faustus, and my new game night

Today's lengthy post deleted in the name of marital harmony. Perhaps some of it will return later in another form.


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