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Archive for February, 2008

Filing the LLC Annual Report Again

Posted by GBGames on February 29th, 2008

It’s that time of year again. GBGames, LLC has to file it’s LLC Annual Report and submit the fee associated with it. I wrote about LLC annual reports last year, but I decided to revisit the topic.
It’s still a simple process. Just sign the form that the Illinois Secretary of State sends you, enclose […]

Knighthood Missing and Found Again

Posted by GBGames on February 28th, 2008

I’ve written about my Knighthood story and its continuing saga before. If you haven’t played it, Knighthood is a Facebook application that seems to have taken Facebook by storm. In order to be successful at it, at least in the beginning, it is no more than a pyramid scheme. You have to recruit your […]

Greg Costikyan on Game Criticism

Posted by GBGames on February 27th, 2008

Manifesto Games co-founder Greg Costikyan wrote about the game industry’s need for game criticism literature. He makes a point of differentiating critical thought pieces from product reviews.
While reading it, I felt that this article is another result of the great gulf that separates individual members of the video game industry from each other and […]

Thousander Club Update: February 25th

Posted by GBGames on February 25th, 2008

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 8.25 (current year) = 417.5 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 15 (current year) = 725 / 1000
I’ve been journaling about an appropriate EULA for the game. While the source code could be licensed under the GPL, the actual game data […]

Thousander Club Update: February 18th

Posted by GBGames on February 18th, 2008

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 8.25 (current year) = 417.5 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 0 (current year) = 710 / 1000
It’s not that I haven’t been coming up with ideas. I just haven’t transferred them from my notebook to my computer, and until they […]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted by GBGames on February 14th, 2008

Or if you are alone today, Happy Ferris Wheel Day!
Just some interesting and related links:

VGCats updated video game Valentine cards
Care of Joystiq, Valentine’s Day for the Gamer in Your Life
And via Kotaku, Show your geek that you care
and Valentine’s Day cards for the geeks in your life […]

Thousander Club Update: February 11th

Posted by GBGames on February 11th, 2008

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 6 (current year) = 415.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 0 (current year) = 710 / 1000
I found that my build scripts were broken for the game. You know how if you leave a Nintendo controller out long enough that […]

Guardian’s Games as Art Debate

Posted by GBGames on February 8th, 2008

The Guardian’s Lindesay Irvine expressed reservations about best-selling author James Patterson’s move into computer games. Apparently Patterson is planning on working on games that will appeal to his current audience: women and middle-aged people. Irvine just can’t fathom the idea of these people going out “to buy PlayStations and get their thumbs around the controls”. […]

The Thousander Club in 2008

Posted by GBGames on February 6th, 2008

The last time I updated the Thousander Club entries, I had the following data:
Game Hours: 262.25 (previous year) + 146 (current year) = 409.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 616 (previous year) + 103 (current year) = 710 / 1000
That was September 24th. Somehow throughout the rest of the year, I did not work on my […]

My Continuing Knighthood Story

Posted by GBGames on February 5th, 2008

The following story could be described simply. I was attacked by Viscountess Melissa twice. One attack was a failed attempt to conquer me, and another was a failed attempt to seize a vassal of mine. In return, I attempted to seize her best vassal, attacking her wall four times. I tried one more time […]