Okay, I found credits for Spore and discovered my actual Spore job title. It’s “Writer, Spore Story Elements & Missions.” There I am, on the same page with Will Wright and Brian Eno. How cool is that?

Miners’ Ink proved to be a pleasant convention, and a pleasant surprise considering that none of the people involved had ever thrown a convention before. The few mistakes made were minor compared with the mistakes that could have been made, or that perhaps ought to have been made. The university venue offered some differences from […]

Ralf asked me in another topic about my policy on DRM. I don’t actually have one, because I don’t produce software, so what I’ve got amounts to mere observations.I’m for whoever owns the work releasing it with whatever conditions he wants. People can accept or reject it on that basis. If he says, “You can […]

Spore, the world’s most eagerly anticipated video game ever, releases this weekend. I wrote it. Or rather, I wrote all the dialog and some of the situations in the space game, which is the last— the ultimate, if you will— of five interlinked games that make up Spore. (There’s not a lot of call for […]