Hey everybody! During my work for the last two weeks I have been getting trained in software accessibility, and this process has got me thinking a lot about accessibility in video games. I believe that everyone should be able to play and enjoy video games, but there are many people who cannot due to physical…
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Hey everybody! At the time of writing, the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story has just released in theaters, and I am very (read: mildly) excited to see it. In fact, I am planning on going to the theater later this afternoon. Because of that, I decided to talk about a type of board game…
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Hey everybody! A few months ago I wrote an article that compared the different colored monopolies on the monopoly board (you can find it here). In that article I used math and statistics to examine several different aspects of the Monopoly board game, but there is one aspect of these games that I didn’t really…
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Much like Monopoly, Clue is one of those games that seems to be in pretty much every household in America. It seems like everybody has played it at least once, and it is so ubiquitous that it has simply become a part of modern culture. These days you can’t swing a candlestick without hitting a…
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I know it may not feel like they are, but they are. Every definition of sandwich I can find affirms this simple fact. From Miriam Webster: Definition of sandwich 1 a : two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between the hotdog clearly fits this definition. How about…
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Hey everybody! A few weeks ago, I wrote about a bunch of different types of players, who all enjoy games for different reasons. There are so many enjoyable aspects about games that it is possible for two players to enjoy the exact same game for very different reasons. Today, I am going to look…
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Ready Player One (the movie and the book). Hey everybody! A few weeks ago I watched Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Ready Player One. While I consider the film itself to be only okay, I found the visuals and the concept of the OASIS to be fascinating. After watching the…
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