A brief SF tale

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May 142007
 

Once Upon A Time, there were many sites dedicated to sharing photos, and videos, and for listening to music. But there was a war on, so the military blocked access to those sites because the traffic was huge, and soldiers kept leaking info they weren’t supposed to, and so on.

But soldiers, being trained to be smart and clever about working around limitations, found that for every Photobucket, there was a Flickr, and for every Pandora there was a private podcast, and so on.

So soon the military started blocking more sites, and asking the sites to help block. Some sites were patriotic and did so. Other sites were patriotic and decided not to do so. Other sites were in other countries altogether. Continue reading »

F13.net interview from GDC

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May 142007
 

Back at GDC I sat down for my now-traditional ramble-all-over-the-place interview with f13. And now they have posted the first part of the transcript. There’s some stuff about Areae, some stuff about old days at SOE and at EA/Origin, and a lot of stuff about Andean Bird and game design stuff.

F13: So what have you been occupying your time with in the past six months that you’re willing to tell us about, then?

Raph: Actually, it’s been a lot of fun. The company was actually founded back in July last year, and part of that time was spent fundraising. We were fully-funded as of AGC last year, so since then, actually, it’s been team-building. We’re up to about a half-dozen people already, and we don’t expect to grow that big. One of the virtues of the way we’re doing it is that it doesn’t require an army, which is actually REALLY refreshing!

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