There and back again - World Building for Storytellers - The Fargoth World Building Project
July 27, 2007
Through the miracle of modern technology today, it is now possible for a story to be realized and constructed as a virtual world and this has changed the nature of the marketplace and opened up tremendous opportunities for those writers who embrace the idea of not just telling a story, but realizing entire worlds, multiple cultures and races.
Tolkien captured it best when he wrote the immortal lines of “There and back again” for they capture beautifully and simply what is at the the heart of the reader experience when they fall in love with or become immersed in a story; the desire to go somewhere other than this world, and experience what it would be like to be someone else, live in any time, any place, and under conditions far removed from the real world in which we all live. Time travel? Read more
Review: FEAR (First Encounter Assault Recon)
July 4, 2007
I like my ghost stories. I’m also pretty picky with my first person shooters. If this game was one or the other it would have still been cool, but having both made this game something I cannot stop playing! In fact, there were so many points in the game where I had to reload over and over again. Not because of death but because particular parts in the game are so cool I had to do them multiple times over–just so I could appreciate their coolness…again! Now there’s a first!
