Botaoshi is a fast-paced action event originating in Japan. And I am not sure how I found out about it, but I’m glad I did! As an avid sports fan and someone with a long-time interest in Japanese culture like a lot of kids I knew growing up. I had…

To be honest this post took a long time to write because I felt it was redundant. Another damn Medium post about a cryptocurrency you have never heard of. But if you are like me and enjoy video games, their development post-mortems and startup stories — including how and why…

Apsis Online V5 introduces the #Marketplace board to @Space. Now players can buy and sell in-game items while the bulletin board system functions as a sort of public ledger for these transactions. I’m also excited to begin development on the origin code which will be the focus for V6. It…

I took off my thin plastic gloves and told the high schoolers, all new hires with no work experience, that they could have the extra hours. At the time I had been scooping ice cream and hosting at a Friendly’s, just trying to make some money. At least until I…

If life was a game called Outside it would be difficult as hell. Hell, like the level in that context, not the actual place (which doesn’t exist since we all know the Earth is hollow). This game would have stats and ranks. Marriages and unions (guilds), friends and enemies. There…

Since writing my first program in 2008 I had always been fascinated by digital communities. Experiments with Multi-User Dungeons like Gemstone 4 had exposed me to an entire group of folks who could still vibe when less is more. Massive worlds imagined, a shared experience catalyzed in the visualization of…

Once upon a time I got married in an MMORPG. These are huge multiplayer games, but this was a time when hot cyber sex was limited to cam-to-cam (c2c, bb?) and Logitec speakers over some MSN or AOL chat room. You see, these kids, they’ve got it…

Do you know what a unicorn is? No I’m not talking about the mythical beast that doubles as Scotland’s national animal. See, in modern business finance, the “unicorn” I’m referring to is a company valued at over 1 BILLION dollars. And, apparently, one valued at over 10 billion dollars is…

As a programmer, I could not imagine being asleep last night at 3AM regardless of whether or not there was an election at all. I was in my room, typing away at this post, with too many tabs open. But then I noticed a theme. This is a blog about…