This looks pretty awesome, but really I'm only posting it because Valve makes the best videos.

Whoo yeah, haven't posted here in a while. Busy, busy, busy.

Got this thing I wanna spread the word about though -- a really sweet-looking PC/Mac/iOS video game Kickstarter thing.

Sounds friggin sweet, and check out that journal -- feelies, mmmmm. They're kinda floundering, though, because initially they were gonna do iOS only, and it turns out there isn't enough interest to pull half a mil for that single platform.So they changed their minds, with two weeks and $400k to go.

So help me spread the word around, eh? I'd like to see this thing get made.

Here's some other kickstarter stuff I'm backing that you might be interested in:

The Ultimate Clicky Pen
Lucid Dreaming Gizmo
New Shadowrun game fuck yeah!

Hey! Now that we're back up and running, I wanted to link you guys to a couple things. 

First, the big IF tribute album to They Might Be Giants' Apollo 18 is out. You may have already heard about this, if you've listened to the newest episode of Video Games Hot Dog. Or not! I wasn't on it this week, and haven't heard it myself, so I don't actually know if they mentioned it. But it is a pretty sweet thing -- every song from the album has been used as the basis for an IF game by a different author. Jenni did Dinner Bell, and it's pretty great! And I'm not just saying that because I'm her boyfriend and beta-tester.

The other plug I have to plug (into a plug) is my dad's Kickstarter project. I don't really expect the audience for it to overlap much (if at all) with the audience for this blog, but you never know. Basically, he's helping this Pittsburgh filmmaker named Jeff Monohan gather funds for a film in which a variety of people -- actors, musicians, singers, etc. -- each read one of Shakespeare's sonnets. The fundraising is to allow them to film in a better variety of locations, sign bigger-name people, and such as like that. So, if Shakespeare is a thing that you like at all -- if your reaction to this was "Oh huh." and not "Wat zzzzzz." -- then maybe consider chucking in a couple bucks? Or at least pass the link on to someone you know who might be even more interested.

Looks like the domain redirect for minimumsafedistance.org is borked again. This is a test post to see if the rss feed got interrupted. If you see this, the site is still available at minimumsafedistance.posterous.com.

Edit: We are back to normal! My thanks to Sarah B. from Hover.com's Support Squad!

Awww, it's Jenni's and my song. <3

Right then! Here's the next one. It's a decent song by Architechture In Helsinki, a band I've never heard of before or since.

The reason it's in my favorites list is: the animation was done by Paul Robertson, which is a name you might recognize from the Scott Pilgrim video game, or such illustrious videos as "Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006" and "Kings of Power 4 Billion%".

And if you haven't seen those either, well, I've added them to the favorites list, so we'll come around to them in a few weeks.

Just wanted to let you know that my World of Warcraft character, a wolf-lady named Clawdia, is wearing a mask made out of a skinned wolf face, on top of her regular wolf face.

This video will split viewers into two categories. 

If you have read MS Paint Adventures: Problem Sleuth in the past, you are probably now feeling gleefuly nostalgic, and you can click here to watch the rest of it in a youtube playlist. (Edit: for some reason, I can't get that link to work properly. If it isn't taking you to youtube, try right-clicking it and loading it in a new tab.)

The rest of you have no idea what the hell you just watched, in which case I recommend you click here and start reading Problem Sleuth. It will take some time, but it's well worth it, particularly if you have a fondness for old-school adventure games and (later on in the story) Japanese RPG games.

I've been lax on the updates -- sorry, gang! I got kind of distracted with World of Warcraft this past few days. And this coming weekend I'm gonna be out of town. So much for posting every day.

In the meantime, though, watch this Japanese guy bust out some mad sick beats.