Tag: Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition (OVGE)

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Gaming Write, Write, You Bloody Well Write

It’s almost OVGE time

NOT THE MIND PROBEA great big box of books landed on my doorstep with a resounding thud today, which is pretty much the last step in getting ready for OVGE this Saturday. I think that may actually set a new record for me: I’m finished figuring out what to bring a week out, rather than freaking out the night before. (There have been a couple of years where my theme was decided, and signage and other graphical aids designed and printed to match, literally the night before.) Of course, now the trick is to not spend the next few days second-guessing myself. … Read more

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Toiling In The Pixel Mines

V(w)orpal sword

The bookA quick bit of blawg, so I don’t break my non-stop blogging streak:

VWORP!1 is undergoing last-minute revisions after a brutal editorial once-over. I had someone look it over and, you know, when you have someone look things like this over, you expect them to be uncompromising. The good news: it’s a good book, it just needed lots of little persnickety grammatical and punctuation fixes. But the knock-on effect has been a little bit of a delay and an increased page count (I realized, very late in the game, that there was stuff I’d left out). This is why you have someone else look over your crap. Sort of like the little internet meme graphic making the rounds: proper punctuation is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. That, and some minor formatting/layout fixes, have pushed the page count dangerously close to 400.

I printed out a copy, from beginning to end, on paper, just to look at it. I learned two things from doing this.

  1. That’s a good way to kill two ink cartridges.
  2. I’ve written a big-ass f@#$ing book.

I hope you like it. It should still be ready for OVGE.… Read more

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Funny Stuff Gaming

Podcast of Extraordinary Magnitude: OVGE Tales & More

Here is the newsAmazing true tales from OVGE 2010, a candidate for the dumbest prime-time TV promo ever, Pac-Man as a spectator sport, and lots of incoherent mumbling!

Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/11142010-ovgetales.mp3]

Right-click here and “save as” to save to your hard drive or MP3 player; leave feedback with this post or in the forums.… Read more

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Gaming Television & Movies

Vworp speed ahead

I’ve decided to go ahead and nail down an initial release date for the first edition of VWORP!, and it’s a pretty unlikely date indeed. This is subject to change, of course, but as I’ve already put quite a bit of work in on it, I’m aiming to have the book out in time for OVGE on October 23rd of this year.

Wait, OVGE? What? Here’s my thought process. The only science fiction convention I’d have a shot at hitting from this particular location is Tulsa Trek Expo, which is this weekend. (The book will not be ready this weekend.) There’s also OKC’s SoonerCon, which has already happened this year – and which I had never heard of until after it had happened this year.

OVGE isn’t exactly a science fiction con, but it is an event that I have been a long-standing exhibitor at (it started in 2003 and I’ve only missed one year of it), and let’s face it: with a retro-skewing video game convention, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re going to have some spill-over into other areas of geek magnificence, such as science fiction. OVGE’s probably a pretty safe bet, actually. 😆 … Read more