gaming

What's it like to be a middle-aged gamer? With the age of the Atari and NES, we are smack in the middle of the first generation who has had video gaming as a hobby, in their home, for their entire living memory. Here's a little bit about what that means to me for my present and the future.

I've been a soccer player for the vast majority of my life, but my path to being a soccer fan was a slower one. That's something for some other blog, probably. But over at the Caves of Narshe, still my primary online community, there have been over the years a lot of folks who have been soccer fans just like me, and a fair amount of banter around the Beautiful Game, as they say.

If you created forty different slots machines, you could find yourself being able to create subcategories in a Netflix style, such as “Slots Games that Feature Licensed Characters” or “Slots Games with Included Minigames” or “Slots Games with More than 6 Paylines.” Obviously I’m terrible at writing these, but you get the idea – offering up granular subgenres could help direct players better than a more generic setup where all slots games, no matter how different, are in one group, and for the web could allow very crawler-friendly, content-rich pages for indexing.

I first tried Minecraft over three years ago, back when the beta was still pretty new. Having taken a good year and a half away from it, I finally got back around to loading it up again this weekend. It remains a great game, even though to an extent I miss the simplicity of the earlier versions compared to the breadth of the game as it is now.