I know what you’re thinking. You love the great taste, wholesome values and nutritional benefits of the Alliance of Awesome, but you just don’t have enough ways to absorb or interact with its lovely staff, readers and contributors. You need and crave more. Fear not, discerning gamers of impeccable taste and style. Not only is the Alliance of Awesome gifting you three awesome websites (Tap-Repeatedly, Bits ‘N’ Bytes Gaming and Electron Dance) and three awesome Twitter feeds …
Harbour Master, he truly is the best of us. Alliance fellow HM, steward of the delightful Electron Dance, has been playing the games that made us. The latest – Chris Crawford’s unforgettable 1981 SCRAM: A Nuclear Reactor Simulator, required plenty of manual-reading and reflection on the misapprehensions about nuclear disasters so prevalent in today’s world. Harbour Master’s The Fukushima Syndrome is – as usual – worth checking out. Part 2 of The Fukushima Syndrome is where things get hot …
Our friend Harbour Master over at Alliance of Awesome fellow Electron Dance has been publishing a series of fascinating, heartfelt vignettes on game designers. The latest tells the story of Bill Williams, one of the greatest visionaries of the early home computer period, one his colleagues have called “The Stanley Kubrick of Game Design.” Tragically the world lost him to cystic fibrosis, and we were denied his genius far too early. Check out HM’s thoughts. …
For those who are not already, please cease current activity and toddle over to our friend Harbour Master’s Electron Dance, and read The Aspiration, in which he is chronicling a game of Neptune’s Pride. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, even emotionally exhausting, it is always epic and written in a classic Harbour Masterian style that many can emulate but none can match. Preview—— Part 1—— Part 2—— Part 3—— Part 4—— Part 5 It’s not …