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FROM THE ARCHIVES: THIRTY CENTS OF TERROR (by Tom Russell)

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: THIRTY CENTS OF TERROR (by Tom Russell)

Sometimes, your blog has articles about game design and development, or what it's like to spend your time making games, and sometimes it's Saturday night and you still don't have something for next Tuesday yet, and so you have no choice but to run a piece you wrote in 2014 about a sandwich you ate once. This is one of those times. Sometimes, I purchase the McChicken sandwich at McDonald's. I'd rather eat real food, but hey, it's a sandwich for a dollar, so I can't expect too much. I don't want to say that I necessarily like it, the...


LAST MAN (by Tom Russell)

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LAST MAN (by Tom Russell)

When you write about a hundred blog things a year, sometimes you write about game design, sometimes you write about business and marketing, sometimes you write about a chicken sandwich that has too much mayo on it, and sometimes - sometimes you write about The Last Man on Earth, a sitcom that until very recently used to air Sunday evenings on Fox.  It's a program that I enjoyed an awful lot, and I was saddened to hear it was cancelled after four seasons, though not terribly surprised; really, it's amazing the thing existed at all. It is aggressively weird and...


THIRTY CENTS OF TERROR (by Tom Russell)

Mary Russell

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THIRTY CENTS OF TERROR (by Tom Russell)

Sometimes, your blog has articles about game design and development, or what it's like to spend your time making games, and sometimes it's Saturday night and you still don't have something for next Tuesday yet, and so you have no choice but to run a piece you wrote in 2014 about a sandwich you ate once. This is one of those times. Sometimes, I purchase the McChicken sandwich at McDonald's. I'd rather eat real food, but hey, it's a sandwich for a dollar, so I can't expect too much. I don't want to say that I necessarily like it, the...