The Plucky Programmer

[Above: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Official Trailer] When I was a kid, the one game that I can say that really took me out of my comfort zone of strategy games (Age of Empires was the norm in the day) and put me into the wide world of gaming was not a shooter, fighter or adventure game, but an RPG. It was Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, old even in that  [ Read More ]

I found a poem I wrote a year back for school. Its one of those that provokes thought in the  end, and it is based on the strange paranoid feeling I sometimes get: Could we be just in-game characters in a vast, horribly advanced game played by some alien race when they have nothing better to do? Or a human race set in the 22nd century playing some historical simulation  [ Read More ]

Recently, I have not blogged much. Not that I ran out of stuff to write about, but because I spent every waking moment of my time on the computer playing this game: Dragon Age: Origins. If it managed to keep me away form the wonders of the internet for such a long time, a positive review is bound to follow. Developed by BioWare, it claims to be the “Spiritual successor  [ Read More ]